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Horse drawn artillery pieces, Personnel carriers and motorized rocket launchers during May Day Parade in Moscow, Russia.

May Day Parade in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Pictures of Josef Stalin in many places. General Zukov and other officers lead parade on white horses, followed by horse cavalry units.. A huge crowd gathered for the May Day celebrations. Group of military spectators includes a U.S. Army Colonel. Horse drawn artillery pieces. Personnel carriers and motorized rocket launchers move along the road. Tanks pass in formation. Officers salute. Politcal leaders in reviewing stand include Georgy Malenkov and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin.

Date: 1946, May 1
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053631
Civilians enjoy amusements during May Day Celebrations in Moscow, Russia.

May Day Celebrations in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. A view of buildings. Various amusements and refreshment stands, set up in the square. Russian families stroll the street. Children ride on swings and carousels. Children laugh and wave on the rides. A group of people dance on a stage, as a band plays. View of major ride at amusement park.

Date: 1946, May 1
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053634
Decorations with lights in an amusement area during May Day Celebrations in Moscow, Russia.

May Day Celebrations in Moscow, Russia. Lights on buildings. Civilians gathered on an amusement area. Searchlights flash across the sky. Decorations with lights. Posters of Russian leaders. Guns are fired and fire works during the celebrations. Reflection of light on water.

Date: 1946, May 1
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053635
Moscow, Russia, in Springtime of 1949.

The Kremlin viewed from Borodinsky bridge over Moskva (Moscow) River, in May, 1949. Cathedral Square can be seen to the right (East) dominated by the tall Ivan, the Great, Bell tower. The Metropolitan Hotel viewed from across a square. Buses moving on the streets. Camera pans across members attending meeting of a USSR legislature (Duma), focusing on the wide variety of ethnicities and cultures represented by the persons and dress of the delegates. A speaker delivers a dramatic poetic speech and is applauded. Huge illuminated images of Lenin and Stalin flank the backdrop of the stage and podium. The film ends with the Chairman of the Gosduma, rising and applauding, quickly accompanied by others on the stage and then, by those seated in the hall.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675054027
Mountain climbing at the Ai-Petri peak in the Crimean Mountains, USSR

Mountain climbing in the Crimea. Scene opens showing new blooms on a tree, framing the slopes of a Crimean moutain covered with small trees and shrubs. A column of people is seen wending their way through the area. A group of young persons stand side-by-side in a line at the base of a rocky upslope, apparently being addressed by mountain guides. Closeup of the rock climbers, including a woman. Some carry rope looped over their shoulders. A climber stands between two rock formations, grasps a rope and begins free climbing the rock. Closeup shows the safety rope fastened under his arms and tied at his back. Closeup of his feet as he makes his way. View of him quite far up the tall rock face. Below, other climbers shield their eyes from the sun as they watch his progress. View from the top of this section of mountain, as the climber hauls himself up over the ledge. Another view of those watching from below. Next, the climber is seen rappelling down the sheer rock face using his rope to control his descent. Camera focuses on two climbers standing atop peaks of the mountain. One throws a coil of rope across to another. A climber on a peak with suspended from rope line stretched taut across open space. The town of Alupka is below, and the Black Sea in the background. The climber rides the taut line (zip-line) across to the other peak, where other await him.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675054031
Opening of fountains at Peterhof (Petrodvorets) on August 25, 1946, after their restoration from destruction in World War II

Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.

Date: 1946, August 25
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054039