Aerial view of a city in Russia. Pilot and copilot in a plane. German officers direct the fire of their artillery and mortars on the Caucasus front. (World War II period).
An animated map shows the eastern front cities in Russia. German StuG III Assault Guns and artillery advance to the eastern Transcarpathian Oblast as troops fire at enemy positions. (World War II period).
Soviet government sends high official Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin to visit Cossack regions in the Steppes of Russia. He receives warm reception from the local peoples who surround him near a cultivated field extending to the horizon. They present a gift, that he hands to an accompanying aide. He is next seen, being formally greeted by a cossack officer in uniform, with whom he exchanges salutes. Kalinin then speaks with several older Cossacks in uniform, including short swords (Russian Shasquas). A group of men stands behind them.
A Russian science film depicts the launch of Sputnik in Soviet Russia. Teams of engineers at work in analysis and design of rockets, satellites, and materials, are seen at work. Scientist tests a rocket inside a laboratory. A CCCP clock. Two scientists discussing about a blueprint on a drafting board. An official oversees the progress of the research project. An animation depicts various parts of the missile, satellite, and travel path. Parts of the missile are written in Russian. An operator controls equipment in the space research center Animation of satellite orbiting the world.
A Soviet science fiction film depicts the dramatized launch of a proposed reusable, manned space vehicle from Russia, with astronauts bound for a mission to walk on the moon and then return to earth in their space ship. Includes early science fiction images of space travel. A photo frame of a Russian missile program pioneer. The manned space vehicle at a gantry. Three astronauts walk. An officer greets the astronauts on board the gantry. The astronauts wave at the civilians and enter the manned space vehicle. A man controls and watches the launch from a control room. The gantry is removed from the manned space vehicle. The space vehicle is launched. It travels through space. The astronauts experience weightlessness inside the vehicle. The astronauts disembark from a lunar module and walk on the lunar surface.
The October, 1917 revolution in Russia, during World War 1. Opening scene shows an explosion at the base of a tall column topped by a winged figure with outstretched arms. The column and statue teeter and then fall in a crash to the ground. Within the same scenes another similar collumn stands, but any statue it contained is gone. Next, a Bolshevik rioter is seen on a ladder, prying a large bas relief statue of Romanov double eagle from face of a building. It falls and breaks into many pieces on the ground.
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