Name: A. Mishurin. The Queen of the Filling Station (1963) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-06-09T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: The heroine of this comedy has abandoned her dream of being a ballerina, and has begun a new phase of her life as a filling station attendant. In this scene we see her disastrous first day on the job. The remainder of the film sees her transforming herself into a masterful attendant, bringing joy and inventiveness to her work and her mostly male customers.

Society and Nature (1988) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

A glasnost-era documentary chronicles the environmental damage caused by Soviet industrialization policies. Paper-cellulous plant in the city of Priozersk, closed by environmental inspectors for dumping waste into Lake Ladoga. An abandoned rail line, disassembled machinery. The polluted banks of Lake Ladoga.

Ceremonial Opening of the Soviet Writers Congress (1934)

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

A. Mishurin. The Queen of the Filling Station (1963)