Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio

Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

A rare Soviet documentary film from 1951, directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It explores the history of humanity’s study of the universe, from ancient astronomy to modern understandings of the solar system, examining the structure of the cosmos, the planets, and advances in scientific space research.

Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.

The film tells about a simple Soviet school and its problems.

A color documentary on the latest advancements in molecular biology and genetics.

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The consultants are Doctor of Philology B.I.Bursov, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR V.M.Glinka.

Stones from the sky - tangible pieces of other worlds. After millions of years of wandering in the darkness and the cold expanses of space, meteorites find shelter in the windows of museums. By studying meteorites, scientists know their origins, how they get to the Earth, and from which substances they are comprised. This film also explores the attitude towards this phenomenon in different nations through different times in history.

About the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its consequences.

Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

A popular science film dedicated to research of the Earth from spacecraft, instilling a sense of empathy for protection of the Earth's natural resources.

A popular science film on the physical properties of matter and nuclear physics, which simply and clearly presents complex phenomena. From Democritus and alchemists to the first nuclear power plant, and dreams of nuclear ships and spacecrafts.

Problems of Futurology, the film is an experience of recreating the future on the example of some scientific discoveries and phenomena of today's social life.

Panorama of the Kama River, banks, coastal area. City of Cherdyn. Views on churches, houses. Exhibits of the Perm Art Gallery. Wooden sculptures of gods, stone sculptures of animals, birds, fish, people.

For the first time in the world, Soviet scientists conducted a unique experiment. In the conditions of central Russia, on an island in Pskov region, five anthropoid apes were released into the wild. Film observations of them became the basis for the movie.

A short film about books in the USSR.

City of Perm. Views of wooden sculptures of gods in the Perm Museum. The museum houses more than 350 sculptures. The announcer's voice-over tells about A. V. Lunacharsky's visit to the museum.