Москва 1963 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an Italian filmmaker while visiting the USSR in October 1963. It contains stock footage of Moscow, at that time the capital city of the USSR and today the capital city of Russia: 0:00 to 8:17: Red Square (the Historical Museum is in scaffolding, GUM, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Mausoleum, Kremlin Wall Necropolis) 2:04: Kremlin (Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the Tsar Bell, the Kremlin Presidium, Building 14 which was demolished in 2016) 2:26: view on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge from Vasilyevskiy Descent Square 2:31: Hotel Pekin (’Beijing’) where they could have stayed (Triumfalnaya Square, Gorky Street) 2:33: Lenin Stadium (Luzhniki) and qualifying football match of 1/8 finals Euro-1964, USSR vs. Italy on October 13th 1963; USSR won 2-0 in that match with more than 102 thousand spectators on the tribune and later in November, having played a 1-1 draw in the 2nd leg match in Italy, qualifying to quarter finals 3:24: Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Satire Th
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