Leningrad 1961 archive footage

Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), a city of Russia and at that time part of the USSR: traffic in the street, a VIP man who passes in a convertible car and greets people at the side of the road, St. Isaac’s Cathedral, Monument to Nicholas I, Admiralty Building, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, local people watching and photographing the filmmaker’s car, Smolny Institute and a Lenin’s statue, Moscow Triumphal Arch, Mikhailovsky Palace, the Bronze Horseman equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Rostral Columns, Palace Square, the Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg Mosque, ships on the Neva River, Smolny Convent, Peterhof Palace, and more. Please, comment if you recognize more subjects. If you want to watch this video without the watermark and advertising, please visit: If you want to buy segments of this video to use them in your production, please visit: If you want to buy this footage to use it in your production, please visit: This film was scanned in 4K with the Filmfabriek HDS scanner: