Name: Moscow-Volga Canal (1937) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-04-12T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, Moscow Region, 1933-1935. Prison-camp entry gate; panorama of the camp, barracks. Interior of a barrack, with the bunks. The Canal Army Soldiers (he prisoner-builders) relax after work, reading a newspaper, buying food at the buffet, or learning arithmetic.

Prayers on Lubianka (1991) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

What a Holiday! November 7, 1991 in Moscow. Prayers on Lubianka Square, Moscow (location of KGB Headquarters) for the victims of Stalinist repressions. Priests pray, people carry candles, men cross themselves.

Ivan Pyriev. The Swineherd and the Shepherd (1941)

Ceremonial Opening of the Soviet Writers Congress (1934)

Brothers-in-Arms (Sketches from Nature) (1990)