Underground tracks (1972)

Documentary №62211, 2 parts, duration: 0:19:33, black-white
Production: LSDF
Director:N.Snegina
Screenwriters:M.Dobshic
Camera operators:O.Romenskij
Sound mixer:E.Belyaeva

Annotation:

About the success of subway construction in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Kharkov.

Reel №1

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The metro train arrives at the station.

Newsreel of Moscow in the early 30s.

The beginning of the construction of the Moscow Metro (chronicle).

A cabman on the street of Moscow.

Removal of tram tracks in Moscow (chronicle of the 30s).

Tverskaya Street (chronicle).

Construction of the metro by mining (drilling and blasting) method.

Construction of the second stage of the Moscow metro (chronicle).

Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad.

Mechanized shield with six milling cutters.

Waste rock on the conveyor belt.

Moscow shield with two milling cutters for Moscow hard soils.

A shield with dissecting shelves for unstable soils.

Trolleys with soil.

Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev.

Kiev shield.

Diagram of a shield with a replaceable cutting tool.

Delivery of waste rock to the surface.

Strengthening the tunnel walls.

Key words

Metro

Calendar: 1930-1935

Locations: Moscow [820] Leningrad [848] Kiev [933]

Reel №2

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Tbilisi.

Lining the walls of the tunnel.

Tunneling.

Chemical fixing of soils.

Construction of a small-scale metro line.

One of the metro stations of shallow laying.

Construction of a small-scale station in Kharkiv.

Leninskie Gory metro station in Moscow.

Lobbies of different metro stations.

A station without side platforms in Leningrad.

Parallel platforms of combined stations.

Metro line diagrams in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkiv, Tbilisi, and Baku.

Ground-level metro lobbies.

People in the subway.

Escalator.

Design of various stations.

Cleaning stations before opening.

Cars on the streets of the city.

People pass through the turnstiles in the metro.

People on the esalator, on the platform.

Key words

Metro

Locations: Tbilisi [859] Moscow [820] Leningrad [848] Kharkiv [899]

Seasons: Winter [823]

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