1935-1936 TOUR OF SOVIET UNION MOSCOW & LENINGRAD RUSSIA EDUCATIONAL FILM (SILENT) 57354

This silent movie from the “Wonders of the World Travel Series“, depicts sightseeing in the USSR’s capital cities of Moscow and Leningrad, with footage from 1935-36. A general sightseeing tour of Leningrad is shown, starting with a ship’s arrival to the Leningrad Trade port. The footage includes travel to the imperial palaces of the Tsarskoye Selo. Some of these sights were destroyed during WWII. (Some palaces were also used as orphanages during that same period.) Besides the usual Moscow sights, some other buildings are shown including the Central Telegraph building, the Komsomol and the Plevna Memorial, the Gorky Park Parachute Jump tower, and the first former American Embassy building on Mokhovaya Street. 00:29 Lumber storage in the Leningrad Trade port, located in Vyborg city 00:47 Leningrad Port International Terminal (built in 1910s, demolished in 1972-1973)00:55 A panorama towards the Admiratly Building, people boarding a 1934 model NATI-ZIS-8 or a ZIS-8 bus another one