October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) movie
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and declares the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) movie
Genres: Drama, History, Silent film
Production Co: Sovkino
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writing Credits: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov, Boris Agapow (intertitles), John Reed (book)
Music by Edmund Meisel, Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography by Eduard Tisse
Cast:
Nikolay Popov as Kerenskiy
Vasili Nikandrov as V.I. Lenin
Layaschenko as Konovalov
Chibisov as Skobolev
Boris Livanov as Terestsenko
Mikholyev as Kishkin
Nikolai Podvoisky as Bolshevik
Smelsky as Verderevsky
Eduard Tisse as German Soldier
Volgograd. Mamayev Kurgan - The Honor Guard of Eternal Flame [4K]
Look at the change of The Honor guard of Eternal flame at the memorial complex Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd city and honor the memory of the millions of Soviet people - victims of the Stalingrad battle and whose names are forever saved on the walls of the Hall of Military Glory. This is one of the most sad and at the same time memorable places in Russia, where you are pierced by all the sorrow that the Soviet people experienced in World War II.
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Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мамаев курган) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means tumulus of Mamai. The formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle, a hard-fought Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern front of World War II, turned into one of the bloodiest battles in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue named The Motherland Calls on Mamayev Kurgan formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world; as of 2018 it is the tallest sculpture of a woman in the world
When forces of the German Sixth Army launched their attack against the city centre of Stalingrad on 13 September 1942, Mamayev Kurgan (appearing in military maps as Height 102.0) saw particularly fierce fighting between the German attackers and the defending soldiers of the Soviet 62nd Army. Control of the hill became vitally important, as it offered control over the city. To defend it, the Soviets had built strong defensive lines on the slopes of the hill, composed of trenches, barbed-wire and minefields. The Germans pushed forward against the hill, taking heavy casualties. When they finally captured the hill, they started firing on the city centre, as well as on the city's main railway station under the hill. They captured the Volgograd railway station on 14 September 1942.
On the same day, the Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Alexander Rodimtsev arrived in the city from the east side of the river Volga under heavy German artillery fire. The division's 10,000 men immediately rushed into the battle. On 16 September they recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station, taking heavy losses. By the following day, almost all of them had died. The Soviets kept reinforcing their units in the city as fast as they could. The Germans assaulted up to twelve times a day, and the Soviets would respond with fierce counter-attacks.
The hill changed hands several times. By 27 September, the Germans again captured half of Mamayev Kurgan. The Soviets held their own positions on the slopes of the hill, as the 284th Rifle Division defended the key stronghold. The defenders held out until 26 January 1943, when the counterattacking Soviet forces relieved them. The battle of the city ended one week later with an utter German defeat.
When the battle ended, the soil on the hill had been so thoroughly churned by shellfire and mixed with metal fragments that it contained between 500 and 1,250 splinters of metal per square meter. The earth on the hill had remained black in the winter, as the snow kept melting in the many fires and explosions. In the following spring the hill would still remain black, as no grass grew on its scorched soil. The hill's formerly steep slopes had become flattened in months of intense shelling and bombardment. Even today, it is possible to find fragments of bone and metal still buried deep throughout the hill.
After the war, the Soviet authorities commissioned the enormous Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex. Vasily Chuikov, who led Soviet forces at Stalingrad, lies buried at Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the Soviet Union to be buried outside Moscow. Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there in 2006.
The monumental memorial was constructed between 1959 and 1967, and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill. The monument, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich, has the full name The Motherland Calls! (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina Mat Zovyot!). It consists of a concrete sculpture, 52 metres tall, and 85 metres from the feet to the tip of the 27-metre sword, dominating the skyline of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd).
Le musée de l'URSS à Moscou
The Motherland is Calling....A Russian WWII Memorial
The 'Motherland Calls' (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina-Mat' zovyot!), is also called 'Mother Motherland', 'Mother Motherland Is Calling', 'The Motherland', or 'The Mamayev Monument'. It is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, (formerly Stalingrad) Russia, and commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad.
The figure itself measures 52 metres (170 feet) tall, with the sword being 33 metres (108 feet). Two hundred steps, symbolizing the 200 days of the Battle of Stalingrad, (from July 17, 1942, through February 2, 1943) lead from the bottom of the hill to the monument.
We're talking BIG statuary! The slide show identifies specific statues' heights.
Mother Russia is located at the top of Mamayev Kurgan, where she is the main monument of a memorial complex to those Soviets who fell in World War II. She represents the Motherland, or Russia. The statue appears on both the current flag and coat of arms of Volgograd Oblast.
Made from concrete and steel, it took 3 years for the statue to be completed. She was officially dedicated on Oct. 15, 1967.
The lead sculptor was Yevgeny Vuchetich. The significant structural engineering challenges of the 7,900 tons (7,800 long tons; 8,700 short tons) of the concrete sculpture were handled by Nikolai Nikitin.
The Hall of Military Glory is a round building at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial complex and contains an eternal flame, with walls of names of the dead. It is guarded by a soldier who stands at attention. The changing of the Guard occurs every hour and is quite a spectacle that involves high goose stepping Honor Guards. The total square footage of the memorial complex is sixty-five thousand square meters.
As I understand it, a visitor enters the complex past the 'Singing Walls' then enters the Hall of Honor. From there walks the 'Square of Grief' and then along the Reflection pool via 'Lenin Avenue' On the right side of the Avenue are the huge sculptures of 'Heroes of the Battle'. From there, one passes a smaller pool and the sculpture of 'Fight to the Death'. Then the climbing of the 200 steps which are at least partially lined with wall scenes of the Battle and finally arrives at the Mamayev Kurgan...Motherland Calls.
In May 2009 it was reported that rising water levels had caused the monument's foundations to sink and that the statue is leaning to such a degree that it is feared it will fall over. The leaning is rapidly getting worse. The statue is not fixed to its foundations and is held in place only by its weight. It has moved about 8 inches and is not expected to be able to move much farther without collapsing. While local authorities deny that the statue is in danger, conservation and restoration works started in 2010.
This has been an exceptionally difficult topic to research. While pictures are plentiful, descriptions in English are not. Many of the articles I found were in Russian or had been translated by someone who was not fluent in English. In addition, I found almost every statue, every memorial, every building and walkway had several names which made it difficult to keep track of exactly what was where, etc.
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Why is Stalin becoming more popular in Russia?
In recent years, people's attitudes toward Stalin in Russia have changed very much. According to surveys in 2001, 43% of Russians reacted negatively to Stalin, and in 2018 - only 12%. Acceptance of the view that Stalin is guilty of killing millions of innocent people dropped from 62% in 2016 to 44% in 2018. Today, more than half of Russians are sympathetic towards Stalin. Why is this happening?
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Taking a Tour of the Mother Motherland Statue in Kyiv
As Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv draws near, we, at UATV, decided to take our international views on a tour around the Ukrainian capital. Today we'll give you a tour of the Mother Motherland statue. At 102 meters tall and 560 tons, it's one of the biggest in the world.
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Communists In Moscow Mark Centenary Of Bolshevik Revolution
Thousands of communist supporters rallied in downtown Moscow on November 7 to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution. (AFP)
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A world of Lenins
Statues and portraits of Lenin testify to the affection and admiration for this leader in countries worldwide, both inside and outside his Soviet Union.
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Long Live Stalin
just wait for it
Rallies held to mark Bolshevik Revolution on former holiday
SHOTLIST
1. Wide top shot of demo down Tverskaya Street
2. Wide shot pan of the demo
3. Wide shot of demo with red flag carried up by demonstrators
4. Wide low shot of approaching demo
4. Close up of a young girl marching ahead of column
5. Mid shot of a line of police walking along demonstrators
6. Wide shot of demonstrators passing by the Kremlin on the background
7. Wide shot of line of interior ministry troops barring approaches to the Kremlin
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vox pop, demonstrator:
We will never, never give away our Russia to anybody to be abused, we will fight for it to the end.
9. Mid shot of an old man with poster of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin
10. Mid shot of demonstrators with National Bolsheviks flag
11. Wide shot of demonstrators facing police line in front of Duma
12. Mid shot of young chanting National Bolshevik with loud speaker
13. Wide shot of young demonstrators chanting slogans, UPSOUND: (Russian) Revolution, revolution
14. Cut away spectators watching demo
15. Wide shot of young demonstrators setting up fire crackers in front of Duma, zooming on one of them.
STORYLINE:
Communists held rallies across Russia on Monday to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution, marking a long-sacred former holiday that was an official working day for the first time in decades.
President Vladimir Putin signed a law late last year cancelling the Nov. 7 holiday that used to mark the anniversary of the 1917 revolution and
replacing it with the Day of People's Unity, a Nov. 4 celebration of the end of Polish intervention in 1612.
Thousands of Communists and their allies and supporters, most of them elderly, marched down Moscow's main street toward a monument to Karl Marx, carrying red banners and chanting Revolution! Revolution!
Communist leaders have said they expect more people to attend rallies nationwide than in recent years, galvanised by the cancellation of the
holiday.
History will not forgive them for taking it away, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said. Those in power are afraid of Soviet history
... because they themselves can do nothing but steal.
In the former imperial capital St. Petersburg, about 1,000 mostly elderly Russians carrying Soviet hammer-and-sickle flags and portraits of Lenin,
Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung and Che Guevara rallied at a main city square.
They planned to march to the cruiser Aurora, anchored in the Neva river, which shelled the Tzar's Winter Palace during the revolution.
In a poll conducted by the respected Levada Centre, 63 percent of respondents opposed the decision to scrap the holiday.
The Oct. 14-17 poll of 1,600 people nationwide had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Ukraine: Monument honouring Soviet military commander Zhukov dismantled in Odessa
A monument honouring Soviet military commander, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, was removed in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, late on Sunday. The decision to remove the memorial was reportedly made under the pressure of nationalist activists.
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Stalingrad War Memorial, Mamayev Kurgan; Guard Change
CAN959LATE SOVIET MINISTER OF DEFENCE LIES IN STATE
(31 Mar 1967) The late Soviet Minister of Defence Rodion Malinovsky lies in state in the Soviet Army House in Moscow.
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Red Army Choir - Volga Boatmen (best version ever: rare) / Бурлаки на Волге - Βαρκάρηδες του Βόλγα
Volga Boatmen - Red Army Choir
Συνδυάζοντας τον μόχθο των βαρκάρηδων του Βόλγα αποτυπωμένο σε ήχο λαϊκού ρώσικου τραγουδιού του 19ου αιώνα, με τις μάχες των σημερινών ναυτικών στους ωκεανούς, σε εικόνα...
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LIVE: Moscow celebrates Red Army’s 100th anniversary with firework display
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Ruptly is live from Moscow on Friday, February 23 as Muscovites commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Red Army’s inception, which coincides with the Defender of the Fatherland Day celebrations.
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Park named in honour of Alexandrov Ensemble in Belgrade
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A new park in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, has been officially named in honor of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the Russian Army choir which lost dozens of members in a 2016 plane crash. Current members of the group were on hand to inaugurate Alexandrov Park on November 10, after the Belgrade city assembly approved the measure in April. The ceremony was attended by Russian and Serbian officials, and a reception was held at the residence of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic which is across the street from the park. The area includes a statue of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, who was killed by Bolshevik troops in 1918. Sixty-four members of the choir were killed last December when their military transport plane crashed near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The group had frequently performed in Belgrade.
[Russia] In the Village of Kryukovo [English Translation]
Kryukovo was the village where Army Group Center in WWII, had reached its closest to the city of Moscow. They were only 41km from the capital and with numerous sacrifices to delay what was considered the world's strongest armies to eventually win was a feat that though bloody, saved Eastern Europe from destruction and genocide on levels that were never before seen. This song is dedicated to their memory as we tend to forget the sacrifices many have made for today's history.
The picture in the song is of the statue that was torn down from a Red Army Memorial in Tallinn because it reminded them of the occupation when in reality, it was a memorial dedicated to those who fell in battle against the Wehrmacht and SS in Estonia in the years of 1941 - 1945.
Wolgograd(2)
Wachablösung
Yevgeny Vuchetich.The Motherland Calls
The Motherland Calls. Bronze on original wooden base. 61cm high. Executed in the 1960.
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (1908-1974) – Soviet painter working in the style of ‘Social Realism’. He was awarded the Lenin Prize, the Stalin Prize on five occasions, the Order of Lenin twice, as well as the Order of the Patriotic War. He was recognised as a Hero of Socialist Labour and as a People’s Artist of the USSR.
Making Of Mapping for the Worker and Peasant Statue in Moscow