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SYND 25 2 77HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OPEN WINTER ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN MINSK
This year's USSR Open Winter Athletics Championships were held recently in the Belorussian capital of Minsk. The winter athletics have been held in the Soviet Union since the late 1940s; the first indoor championship was held in 1971....
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SYND 3 9 76 USSR RAFTSMEN AND LOGGERS
In the Soviet Union, ever increasing efforts are being made to improve production techniques in vital agricultural industries through the introduction of mechanisation. But in the far-flung corners of Russia, the methods of previous...
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LIB 27-3-74 BREZHNEV MEETS JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN
Brezhnev meets Japanese businessmen
1 Leonid Brezhnev introduced to Japanese businessmen
2 Brezhnev and businessmen at conference table
3 businessmen with officials signing agreement
Film: Rev - Sound: Mute - Colour - NYFilm: - LN...
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SYND 3 4 77& FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT PODGORNY AND PRESIDENT MACHEL SIGN FRIENDSHIP TREATY
President Samora Machel of Mozambique and Former President of the USSR, Nikolai Podgorny Sign Friendship Treaty
1. ms Former President of the USSR, Nikolai Podgorny and President Samora Machel of Mozambique at desk, signing documents
2....
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SYND 30 3 73 FOOTBALL MATCH BETWEEN USSR AND BULGARIA
A football game between the USSRand Bulgaria.
1. ws of the teams lined up
2. ms of the clock and scoreboard
3. vs of play in progress
Film: Pos - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: No - LN Number: LN41557 - Available in HD
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SYND 22 3 77 PRESIDENT BREZHNEV ADDRESSES 16TH SOVIET TRADE UNION CONGRESS IN USSR
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev addresses congress of trade unions. the congress was attended by more than five thousand delegates representing 113 million trades unions members. Members of the Soviet Central Committee Politbureau, the...
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SYND 9 6 76 GANDHI ARRIVES MEETING WITH BREZHNEV
Indira Gandhi arrives meeting with Brezhnev
1 plane taxis
2 welcoming party wait
3 Indira Gandhi down plane steps and greeted
4 Gandhi with Leonied Brezhnev past guard of honour
5 Andrei Gromyko and others follow
6 Indian flag
7...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: YELTSIN LAYS WREATH AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Natural Sound
Russian President Boris Yeltsin laid a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day in Russia.
The holiday, taking place on Saturday, will mark the 53rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi...
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CAN489 POLAND AND SOVIET UNION SIGN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT
Poland and the Soviet Union sign mutual assistance agreement. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin attend alongside Poland's Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Prime Minister Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Also...
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SYND 19 7 78 POLITBURO MEMBER KULAKOV LYING IN STATE
Lying-in-State of Soviet statesman and Politburo member Fyodor Kulakov. He was the Soviet Union's agricultural chief and seen by many as the third most powerful member of the Politburo. He died of a heart attack on Monday (July 17th) at...
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SYND 2-5-69 NO MILITARY HARDWARE ON DISPLAY IN THIS YEARS PARADE
Traditional Moscow Mayday Parade, but this year no military display
1) ls parade, large float
2) crowd and red flags
3) ms people waving flags:
4) ms officials including Brezhnev arrive onto podium
5) float of Soyuz rocket
6)...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: WW2 VICTORY DAY MILITARY PARADE
Russian/Nat
A traditional military parade to mark Victory Day was held on Red Square in Moscow on Sunday.
Five thousand servicemen took part.
The elite units of the Russian Armed Forces marched in front of the country's top officials...
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SYND 17 2 78 SOVIET AND LIBYAN TALKS WITH KOSYGIN AND JALLOUD IN THE SOVIET UNION
Major Abdel Salem Jalloud, the second most powerful Libyan leader meets with Soviet leaders Chairman Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin at the Kremlin.
1. ws interior Libyan delegation greeted
2. ms Kosygin seated at conference...
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SYND 17 6 77 PRESIDENT BREZHNEV SPEAKS AT OPENING SESSION OF THE SUPREME SOVIET
Elected Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev addresses delegates & other Russian officials at the opening session of meeting of Soviet Supreme
1. gv wide interior Kremlin, assembly hall, Soviet officials seated 2. various shots, people...
British Movietone
Meet the Unofficial Czar Of Russia
Crowned by monarchists, Grand Duke Cyril sends a message while with his family in France. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
British Movietone
GROMYKO ARRIVES
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flies into London on his first official visit since 1965. He'll be discussing international problems and Anglo-Soviet trade and cultural relations with the Prime Minister and other Government...
British Movietone
RUSSIAN NAVY DAY
Soviet Navy Day - and impressive displays of Russia's seapower at Leningrad and Sebastopol. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
British Movietone
SOYUZ 9
Russia sets up a new space endurance record with the Soyuz 9 flight. Film of the blast-off on June 1 and cosmonauts Nikolayev and Sevastianov during the flight. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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SYND 29/06/74 NIXON SIGNS AGREEMENTS WITH USSR
US President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, Premier, Alexey Kosygin, and President Nikolai Podgorny and US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, at signing of agreements...
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UPITN 5/1/80 FIRST KARATE CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD IN THE SOVIET UNION, AT TALLINN
First karate championships held in the Soviet Union, at Tallinn
1. wide pan across Karate teams in sports arena
2. top shot judges table
3. various top shots Karate match in progress
4. match ends, competitors bow to each other
5. top...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD VISIT
English/Nat
Syrian president Hafez Assad began top level talks in Moscow on Tuesday expected to focus on the Middle East peace process and Syrian arms deals with Russia.
Assad has been to Russian fourteen times, but his arrival in...
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RUSSIA: YELTSIN COMMEMMORATES NAZI INVASION OF 1941
Natural Sound
Wreaths were being laid at war monuments throughout Russia on Tuesday as the country commemorates the Nazi invasion of 1941 which brought the Soviet Union into World War II.
In Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin and senior...
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SYND 29 5 72 NIXON AND BREZHNEV SIGN TREATY
US President Richard Nixon and Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign coexistence treaty
1. ls US President Richard Nixon and Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev at table signing document, witnesses behind
2. ms Leonid Brezhnev...
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UPITN 6 4 78 SOVIET LEADER LEONID BREZHNEV IN IRKUTSK DURING HIS TOUR OF SIBERIA
Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev visiting Irkutsk during his tour of Siberia.
1. ms sign reading Irkutsk2. gv train arriving to station, crowd and dignitaries on platform3. gv crowd waving4. ms Brezhnev greeted 5. ms pan along line of...