Scenes of funeral services held for Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky) in the Soviet Union. Russian Orthodox bishops dressed in robes held a procession with the body of Patriarch Sergius of Moscow. A man holds the Russian Orthodox patriarch’s crown during procession. Later Patriarch Sergius’ remains is paraded with a casket. The Russian Orthodox priests and civilians follow the casket which is being taken to the graveyard. The casket is lowered into the grave.
Yugoslav President and Marshal Josip Broz Tito and his wife Jovanka Broz visits the Soviet Union. Tito's staff car and motorcade arrives in Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square, Moscow. They place wreaths at the entrance of the tombs of Lenin and Stalin. Marshal Tito, his wife, and Yugoslav officials enter a building in the Kremlin. Tito visits Vladimir Lenin's office. A female guide speaks to Tito and his wife as they stand in front of Lenin's desk. Tito and party walk on a street of Moscow and meet civilians. A Russian woman holding a baby talks to a man during Tito’s visit. Photographers take pictures.
Phosphate mines in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union. A man drives camels loaded with material at a mining site in Karatau Mountains. Explosive is detonated. Workers climb a hill. An equipment in operation on hillside. Interiors of an electric power station showing technicians at an instrument panel with gauges. Sprinklers in operation.
A folk dance of the Ural Cossacks performed in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union. Members of Amateur dance group performs on stage. Orchestra performs folk melodies for dancers in the background.
Formation of Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan, and sometimes called "Atomic Lake") by the Chagan nuclear test conducted as part of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program during the Cold War. A wired atomic bomb seen installed at ground level. Infrastructure around the dry bed of the Chagan River. A clock and oscilloscope during countdown. A 140-kiloton nuclear bomb explodes in a 178-metre-deep (584 ft) hole in the dry bed of the Chagan River, creating a crater that would become Lake Chagan. A massive dark cloud from nuclear blast and soil from the dry riverbed. A man walking near the blast crater. Aerial view of the Lake Chagan crater without water. Bulldozers pushing soil to break through the Chagan River. Flood water filling the crater of Lake Chagan as water flows from the Chagan River to Lake Chagan. Scientists in a boat retrieve a sampling device from the water. Female Russian scientists test water samples from Lake Chagan inside a lab. A woman scientist points to waveform on an oscilloscope. A man wearing snorkel gear jumps into Lake Chagan. Aerial view of Lake Chagan.
July 1960: Russian oil tanker “Peking” at dock in Havana, Cuba. Sailors stand on deck of the ship. Man looks at the Soviet ship through binocular. Car arrives and dignitaries get off. Delegation of People’s Republic of China Federation of Trade Union meet dignitaries of Cuba including President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado. President Osvaldo and Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Jung sit with other dignitaries and discuss about sugar trade and steel import.
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