In 1932 British Pathé filmed a newsreel of the Soviet Union’s recently installed wind turbine at Balaklava near Yalta on the Crimea Peninsula.[1] The black & white newsreel is 1 minute 23 seconds long, giving a rare glimpse of the unique wind turbine in operation.
This colorized version can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O644wG_aBwI
The Cyrillic explanation as translated by Google is “The first modern wind power station in the world. Balaklava. Crimea 1931.”
https://archive.org/details/power-in-the-wind-pathe-1932-balaklava-copied-and-colorized
At 0.37 seconds there are relatively clear images of the design’s control ailerons, one of the wind turbines more unusual features.
The 30-meter (98-foot) diameter wind turbine used a three-blade rotor upwind of the tower. It yawed about a circular track on a tripod tower. The turbine, variously described as WIME-D-30, VIME D-30, or TsVEI D-30 depending upon translation, was rated at 100 kW. It was in operation from 1931 until 1942 when it was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in the battle for Sevastopol.
[1] Power from the Wind British Pathé, Newsreel (British Pathé, 1932), https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/188494/.
