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School children involved in conservation plant trees and hang birdhouses, USSR 1970s
School children involved in conservation plant trees and hang birdhouses, USSR 1970s
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Factories and industrial complexes. Estonia, 1971
Clip 4 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Scenes of workers operating machinery in various factories and industrial complexes.
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USSR 1970s - dead birds in oil spill, Ilmen Nature Reserve, bird conservation
VS Russian newspapers ; articles about environmental dangers, pollution, ... Pictures of industrial chimneys w/ smoke. Seashore after oil slick : dead birds taken into the oil. VS Covers of magazines and Lenin's texts about environment....
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Estonian farms and coastal landscapes. Men working on the mills and on sailing ships. Estonia, 1971
Clip 7 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Scenes of farms, coastal landscapes, beaches, and houses. Men work on the mills and on the sails of a large ship.
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Fireball of atomic blast (RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also...
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The city of Tallinn and its industrial sites. Estonia, 1971
Clip 3 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. City scenes of Tallinn and its architecture. A line of photographs on the street. Footage of industrial construction sites and their labourers....
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Underground nuclear explosive detonated at Urta-Bulak gas field, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1966
In 1966, a nuclear explosive was detonated at Urta-bulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan in order to extinguish a gas well fire that had been burning for almost three years and had resisted numerous attempts at control. The gas...
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USSR 1970s - aerial shot and CU shot of large herd of reindeer running over snowy land
POV from helicopter. Aerial snowy landscape, big herd of reindeers. MS man taking filming the reindeers from heli. Ground shot of herd of reindeers. Reindeer looks at camera.
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USSR 1970s - nature scenes of flowers and ocean. Men blowing up mountains and felling trees.
Time lapse Tulip opening out. Tulip field. Yellow butterfly on a kind of thistle. Landscape, forest and mountains in the mist. Clouds over the sea. Birds / seagulls in the sky, then close to the surface of the sea water. Waves on the...
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Wildlife in a Ukrainian nature reserve, 1970s
Ukrainian steppe near Askania Nova. Pink flamingoes, wild horses (Przewalski's horse), zebras, antelopes, two stags fighting, herd of deers, birds w/ a feather crest, ostriches, Hungarian steppe cattle, bisons, aurochs. High angle over...
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Soviet soldiers shelter from the light of nuclear test as part of military exercise, USSR, 1956
Small fragment of footage showing military exercises with the use of nuclear weapons at the Semipalatinsk test site.
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Fireball of atomic explosion (RDS-3 or Joe 8), Totsk Test Site, USSR, 24th September 1954
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball from the RDS-3 (nicknamed Joe 8) device. Explosion power 40 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, "Svetlana" (RDS-3), was tested at the Totsk test site. The...
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Coasts and landscapes of Estonia, 1971
Clip 1 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Opening titles in front of a static shot of a stone building. Shots of the sea, coastline, rocks and cliffs.
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Fireball of atomic test (Joe 14) Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1954
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball, from a Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 30th October 1954. The device known by the US as Joe 14, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan....