This silent 16mm footage was most likely shot during and after the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1961 (9 to 23rd of July). The movie contains scenes of all the major sightseeing spots in Moscow – the Red Square, Kremlin, Ivan the Great bell tower, Luzhniki stadium, the VDNKh, All-Union Exhibition of the National Economy, the Mt. Vorobyovy ski jump, GUM Central Department Store and a couple of special locations – the Moscow International Car Camping Ground, only one of 25 such locations in the entire Soviet Union, the Moscow swimming pool (now demolished), and the Ostankino Park and pond, before the TV tower was built and the pond deepened.

0:07 Gorky street, by the Moscow Hotel, near Red Square. Red building is the Lenin Museum, and ZIS-154, ZiS-155 buses.

0:16 Glass recycling shop line.

0:35 Red Square and Saint Basil, filmed from the Lobnoe Mesto. Visibile are UAZ-450 minibusses of 1958 model year

1:19 shot of the GUM department store

1:33 Red Square and Saint Basil’s cathedral

1:48 Palace of the Soviets inside Kremlin and the Kremlin wall

2:08 Hair salon,

2:16 man in narrow pants, cowboy boots and checked shirt exiting a hair salon – a typical 1960s Soviet youth

2:24 A Ministry of Trade international auto-camping. Tourists around their cars, Volga GAZ M21, Citroën 2CV, Renault 4 at 4:25.

3:39 to 3:41 Camping Canteen building

3:46 Volvo Amazon 120. French diplomatic plates

5:22 American car plates – California MRN319

5:30 Detsky Mir toy department store

5:38 Manezhnaya square, with the Manezh building

5:43 GAZ-51-based PU-20 Street-cleaning truck

5:52 Movie posters

6:23 Red Square, Lenin’s Mausoleum, St Basil’s

6:55 Crowd gawking at Buick Invicta

7:16 Kremlin

7:20 Ostankino pond, church of Life-Giving Trinity of Ostankino

8:30 Gorky Park

9:01 Public message board, celebrating Yuri Gagarin.

9:14 “Young woman on a beam” statue by Elena Yanson-Manizer

9:48 Soviet and American flag

9:56 Boating at the Gorky Park

10:04 ZiS-155 bus and ZiS-154 common-chassis trolleybus

10:20 Newspaper stand

10:34 Various products, notably toys and women’s shoes

11:00 Carpet shop

11:40 A building with nets

12:00 Bridal shop

12:55 Motorcycle school

13:17 “All-Union Art Exhibition of the self-taught painters”

13:20 Lenin’s mausoleum with both Lenin and Stalin. Stalin’s body, and the inscription “Stalin” were removed from the mausoleum in 1961.

13:56 State History Museum of Moscow and the Nikolskaya tower of Kremlin

14:16 Saint Basil

14:23 Spasskaya tower of Kremlin

14:30 State History Museum, Nikolskaya tower, Lenin’s Tomb with queue.

15:25 Mausoleum entrance

15:29 Changing of the guards

15:30 “Ivan the Great” belltower

16:04 Kremlin

16:44 Church of the 12 Apostles

16:55 Gorky Street

17:05 A church

18:21 municipal cleaning worker women

18:30 Women roadworkers, DU-50 road roller

19:55 Moscow State University

21:10 the Friendship of Nations Fountain

21:29 USSR Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, 22:06 Central Pavillion,

22:33 Light industry pavilion, 22:36 Chemical industry pavilion, 22:42 Totem pole

23:26 Fire engines and cars, 23:30 Tu-104 exhibit

24:31The Worker and Kolkhoz statue

25:26 Moskvich river ship

25:44 Vorobyovy gory ski jump

25:45 Kremlin from the river

26:30 Old Luzhniki stadium

26:48 Beach-goers

26:53 Ski jump

27:05 A stadium (now demolished)

27:16 Shot from the riverboat of Moscow State University

27:24 Kotelnicheskaya embankment

27:30 Krymsky_Bridge

27:38 “Ivan the Great” belltower and the Kremlin

27:40 “Moscow” swimming pool

27:51 Old brown-brick Moscow

28:12 Driving by a group of vending machines, and medical, cheese, and tobacco shops and a bookstore

29:04 Continued shots of the street with public message boards

29:10 The Bolshoi Theatre

29:56 Young Pioneers Camp tickets

30:13 A tea and sandwiches salescart of the Baumanski district Municipal Food Sales Department.

30:28 Old buildings and new grey-brick ones

32:00 Moscow State University main building

32:25 Vorobyovy gory ski jump

32:32 Luzhniki stadium

32:50 river, park, shops, street, Bolshoi theatre, probably from a different camera

34:01 Poster, commemorating the 21st Congress of the Communist Party

34:02 All-Union Exhibition

34:15 Main pavilion

35:01 Inside GUM Department Store

35:30 Carpet shop advertisement

35:40 AT-114 soda vending machines. The glass cup was reusable and washed by the user

36:11 Poster “Glory to Soviet science “

36:20 Buick Invicta

36:40 Russian State Library

37:18 Moscow Swimming pool

37:58 Manicure at beauty salon

38:10 inside the GUM department store

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