Olympic flame (1979)

Athlete with an Olympic torch.

Ancient Greek murals depicting the Olympic Games.

A newsreel of 1964: the ritual of lighting the Olympic flame in Greece before the start of the Olympics in Tokyo.

The Japanese sportsman lights the Olympic flame at the stadium.

General view of the stadium in Mexico City before the Olympic Games 1968, the ignition of fire in the stadium.

Athletes with an Olympic torch run along the track of the stadium in Montreal in 1976.

The fire of the Olympic Games in Montreal lights up.

Solemn event at the Central Stadium.

Lenin in Moscow in honor of the upcoming opening of the Olympic Games.

Map of the route of the Olympic flame, from Greece to Moscow.

The view of one of the relay torches of the Olympics-80, the components of the torch, the demonstration of his work.

Scheme escort group escort fire.

The escort car group is moving behind the torchbearer.

A kind of replacement lamp in a special machine.

A representative of the special technical service prepares a torch for delivery to the next runner.

Demonstration of the transfer of the torch from one runner to another.

Another torchbearer runs in the rain.

Demonstration of the transfer of the Olympic flame to the honorary escort when entering the city line.

The transfer of fire from one escort to another.

Another torchbearer at one of the monuments of the Battle Glory, the ceremony of transfer of fire at the foot of the monument.

Solemn rallies in the cities of the USSR, through which the path of the Olympic flame will pass, the lighting of the ceremonial bowl.

Transfer of fire to the building of the executive committee for preservation during the night.

Lamps for emergency fire.

A young athlete with a torch.

Fragments of the buildings and towers of the Moscow Kremlin.