The USA-USSR Moscow summit on perestroika in Moscow, Soviet Union. A boat sails in water in front of Red Square buildings in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Traffic on road in Moscow. The expert speaks on the sluggish Soviet economy. Soviet Russian people walk on the streets in a Soviet city (likely Moscow). Some are shopping; some are reading posted material on bulletin boards. Marshall Goldman, a Soviet economist, speaks during a world net telecast. More views of Russian people in front of the shops and on the streets in the 1980s. The U.S. president Ronald Wilson Reagan and General Secretary of the communist party of Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev sign a pact limiting nuclear weapons. Mikhail Gorbachev waves to the people. The people hold balloons as they stand to greet him. Soviet Officials including Gorbachev stand at Kremlin in Red Square during a military parade. Flashback scene during the formation of the Solidarit Labor Union in Poland. Lech Wałęsa, Polish Solidarity leader, speaking to a crowd in the early 1980s. Crowd protests on streets in Poland during time of formation of Solidarity movement. Final scenes of clip show rally in Red Square Soviet Union as balloons rise during celebration or parade, and view of large banner of famous deceased Soviet leaders is seen hanging from buildings.
Romanian delegation headed by Romanian Prime Minister Petru Groza, foreign minister Anna Pauker, and Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej is leaving from Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, after signing a Mutual Assistance treaty on February 4, 1948. The delegation at a railroad train station is seen off by the Russian foreign secretary Vyacheslav Molotov and vice foreign secretary Andrei Vyshinskii. Prime Minister Groza gives the departing address on Russian-Romanian relations. February 1948.
Post-war subway condtruction in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Brief view of cars driving along street, followed by scenes of subway workers in tunnel, 165 feet below the surface. The tunnel ceiling and walls are reinforced by shoring structures. A power shovel dumps dug out rock and earth into an open rail car where a worker packs it with a long-handled tool. Drillers at the tunnel face use pneumatic tools to dig through sedimentary layers of material. A man and woman push a rail car full of diggings through the tunnel. A surveyor uses a transit suspended from the ceiling by a wire. A woman fastens a thin rope to a light cable. Back at the face of the excavation, drillers stop and one calls out to others drilling from the opposite end (unseen). The drillers then commence again, and break through the remaining wall separating the two ends of the tunnel. Drillers from the opposite sides greet one another and celebrate the completion of this 12 mile segment of the subway tunnel.
May Day celebration in Moscow, Russia. Russian aircraft in formation fly in shape of a star during May Day celebration. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Union Joseph Stalin on Russian airfield talking and shaking hands with Russian pilots. A large formation of Russian aircraft in flight over Moscow. A large group of Russian paratroopers descending from a transport aircraft. The paratroopers jump over Moscow during May Day celebration.
Tourists visit Lenin's Tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The wall of the Kremlin. The former Soviet Parliament building in the background. The tourists pose in front of Lenin's Tomb entrance on Red Square.
Water falling in New Hydroelectric Station in Aoul, Dagestan. Russian engineers holding power station plans and people at work in early construction of the electric facility. Aoul area can be seen. Workers in warm Russian hats (Ushanka) digging and stringing power lines.
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