Visitors in Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union. A damaged building in Moscow. A Soviet woman sells American newspapers at a newspaper stall. A picture of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. People in front of Saint Basil's Church in Red Square.
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and other leaders attends an award ceremony at St. George Hall in the Great Kremlin Palace,in Moscow, Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin,Georgy Malenkov, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin and others seated in a box. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov seated elsewhere, with other officials. A speaker announces Molotov's name and the assembly applauds. A woman speaks from the podium. Many other names are called and applauded. Winners of various awards stand before the assembly and are applauded.
Soviet workers at an oil drilling site in Gronzy, Soviet Union. Workers operate a valve. Statue of a Soviet leader. View of an oil refinery. Tubular railroad tank car at a halt on the tracks. A worker atop a railroad car. The railroad car gets underway.
Soviet Union Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, tours Siberia. Dignitaries hail the arrival of Premier Khrushchev in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan. They greet and present bouquets. The Premier tours to investigate lagging agriculture production. In a civic reception Khrushchev gives a speech to the local farmers. A man gives a sheep and a farmer presents corn to the Premier for demonstration.
Palaces and monuments near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union. Exteriors of Livadia Palace in Livadiya, Crimea (Baturina Street, 44A, Livadiya 29865). People enter the gates of the palace. Scene changes to exterior views of a the Kichkine Palace, built of whitewashed stone for the Grand Prince Dmitry Konstantinovich Romanov, the grandson of Nicholas I. Sweeping views of the Black Sea from the elevated mountain-side position of the Palace Kichkine (Alupkinskoe highway, Gaspra village, Yalta district, Crimea). People in a garden in the palace at Gaspra, a former home of Grand Duke Nikolaevich. Men and women play volleyball at a park near the Gaspra palace. People enjoy views of the Baron von Steingel Swallow's Nest castle, jutting out at the edge of the Black Sea, at the Cape of Ai-Todor (Mys Ay-Todor).
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Air raid sirens sound and streets of Leningrad. Civilian men, women, and children running for cover in Leningrad as German Luftwaffe bombers raid and blitz Leningrad. Empty streets of Leningrad with idle streetcar trolleys just before German bombing attack. Civilian men and women aircraft spotters track German planes. Russian Anti Aircraft guns follow the course of of the German planes and fire. Aerial bombs away view as bombs dropped by German aircraft and explosions seen at ground level as Soviet buildings are destroyed by bombing. Bombing continues at night. Russian firemen fight fires on burning buildings of Leningrad. Ruins of buildings destroyed by bombing. Rescuers in rubble rescue people and civilians clear rubble. Elephant at Leningrad zoo killed in bombing. Animated map shows Leningrad surrounded by German Army during siege of Leningrad.
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