Leningrad Newsreel Number 16

Chasing medals "For the Defense of Leningrad", established by the government for the defenders of the city, at one of the Leningrad factories. Stamping shop. Workers at the apparatus. Ready medals. Construction of a warship at the Leningrad Shipyard. Pipeline workers are working. Assembly work in the engine room. Installation of weapons on the ship. A pasta shop at one of the bakeries. Workers at the car. Extraction of peat at the Shuvalov mine. Peat feeding to the conveyor. Preparing houses for May 1: women wash glass, paint fences, make flags. Memorial plaque on the house number 30 on the Zhores embankment, where the great Russian commander MI Kutuzov lived. Monument to M. Kutuzov at the Kazan Cathedral, Kutuzov's tomb. Order of Kutuzov. Pulkovo Observatory. The main building. Large reflector of the observatory (shooting before the war). The destroyed buildings of the observatory, the destroyed reflector. Portrait of the founder of the Pulkovo Observatory V. Ya. Struve. Ruined houses. The military is removing people from the rubble, carrying out the wounded and killed. Injured children in the hospital.

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