People get off a train and walk from platform in Batun Russia (Soviet Union). View of six car electric train passing. Pedestrians walking across tracks after the train passes. Steam locomotive pulling a long passenger train. A large crowd boarding train at station. Interior view of passengers on the train.
Yugoslavian Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Moscow, Soviet Union. Marshal Tito arrives by train. Premier of the Soviet Union Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other Kremlin officials escort Tito through the city. Huge crowd at the Moscow Kiyevsky railway station (Kiyevsky Station Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 121059) to welcome Marshal Tito.
Map shows distance is 4662 miles from New York to Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia. Map shows that it is 340 miles further from Moscow to the Eastern edge of the Soviet Union. Views of the fountain and gardens at the Palace of Peter, the Great, and brief view of the Palace building. View of a Russian church building.
Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) demonstrates a JATO (jet-assisted take-off) takeoff to left during the 1962 Soviet Aviation Day Display at Tushino Airfield (present day Otkrytie Bank Arena, Volokolamskoye Shosse, 69, Moscow, Russia, 125424) near Moscow, Soviet Union. The speed of jet aircarft increases rapidly following the JATO takeoff. Premier Nikita Khrushchev and prominent Soviet officials watch the demonstration on a balcony. The Sukhoi Su-9 climbs in altitude. Soviet dignitaries wearing sunglasses looking skywards during the airshow. Another Sukhoi Su-9 demonstrates a JATO takes off from a runway. Khrushchev and officials talking and smiling at the airshow. Soviet civilians and guests clapping and cheering. “GLORY TO SOVIET AVIATION” in slate written in Russian.
A picture of Bernt Leuton, a resident of East Berlin East Germany, who fled to West Berlin West Germany. Border guards at the Communist side of Berlin in East Germany. View of Leuton on August 13, 1961 after being shot by an East German guard, after successfully swimming across the connecting canal. He is hauled out by West German guards. A map of the world. Narrator begins to trace history of Bernt Leuton's shooting by recounting prior events in history of Russia and Soviet Union. View of the Winter Palace of Czar Nicholas II, with the Czar and Czarina Alexandra standing on a balcony. Saint Petersburg, Russia on January 22nd , 1905 : Peasants and workers, with their leader Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Georgi Gapon, gathered outside the palace to deliver a petition to Czar Nicholas II. A number of the people carry banners. A picture of Czar Nicholas II. Reenactment of Czar's armed cossack cavalry dispersing the crowd, The words 'My autocracy will remain unchanged' issued by the Czar to which Father Gapon replies that they "no longer have a Czar." Picture of Father George Gapon. Picture of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and moving images of Lenin speaking. The Czar Nicholas II and his wife, escorted by guards, moving on a path during a ceremony. The Czar mounting a horse and the guards saluting him. A picture of the Czar's wife and hemophiliac son. Picture of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, whose occult powers were believed to have kept the Czar's son alive.
An announcement by President Harry Truman in the United States. Men read newspapers at news stands announcing nuclear tests conducted by the Soviet Union, proving that Russia has nuclear weapons. President Truman announces that Russia possesses an atomic bomb. A meeting of the United Nations delegates in New York after the announcement. Soviet official Andrei Y. Vishinsky exits a car at the UN and refuses comment to reporters regarding the nuclear testing. Other men greet him. United Nations officials seated inside UN building. President of the UN General Assembly Carlos Peña Romulo addresses the officials and states that the United Nations and the world now must strive harder for atomic controls.
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