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Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics, with the yachting events being held at Tallinn, in present-day Estonia. Large sports facilities and the main international airport, Sheremetyevo Terminal 2, were built in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Moscow had made a bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. However, when final voting ...
The movie takes artistic freedom with real events. In the film, Polish troops are thrown back from Moscow, but they actually held the city for two years. Also, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who were instrumental in organizing the popular uprising that led to the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian forces, appear only briefly at the movie's ...
On the Metro, in the tunnels near the station at Park Kultury, built in 1935, is starting to structurally fail.One tunnel night crawler, Sergeitch (Sergey Sosnowski), sees water leaking into the tunnel where it runs underneath the Moscow River and informs the assistant station master (Michael Fateev), who mocks the old man for worrying about it, saying it is only groundwater.
The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrey Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw , premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman [ 4 ] Vadim Yusov , best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky .
Arbatskaya (Russian: Арба́тская) is a station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro.Along with Smolenskaya and Kievskaya, it was built in 1953 to replace an older, parallel section of track which has since become part of the Filyovskaya line.
The band, under their English-language band name Genghis Khan, released a version of the song with English lyrics entitled "Moscow" in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [1] Australia's Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics, and the single was issued locally in a die-cut ...
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Battle of Moscow was director Ozerov's third film dealing with the Second World War, after the five-part Liberation (1970) and the TV mini-series Soldiers of Freedom (1977). Ozerov was not allowed to deal with the early, dark chapters of the war in Liberation due to political pressure, and Soldiers of Freedom revolved around the battles outside ...