USSR, which we lost

"And life, comrades, was very good." Arkady GaydarTak happened that August was a historic month for Russia. The death of "Kursk" in 2000, defaulted in the 98th, and, of course, the August Putsch '91, which actually meant the end of the nuclear, space, scientific and cultural empire of the USSR. One can argue about how well or poorly lived in the Soviet era. But you can not delete it from the memory of the time of our youth and youth of our parents.

Website presents you a selection of rare photographs of Soviet times, made in different decades and different parts of the vast country. Vivid examples of Soviet photojournalism and personal footage from personal archives, they help us to feel the spirit of the time.





the road.







Youth. Photographer A. Ryavoshapka 1976









Biking, photographer Michael Blonshteyn.







Sabantuy. Photographer Yuri Filimonov, 1980







Children and BelAZ, Minsk, 1980







Supermarket dairy department, Novokuznetsk, 1983







Outside the window - spring! Photographer Anatoly Garanin 1980







Pit-maker. Photographer P. Krivtsov 1982







Generations. Photographer Utkin 1978







Two. Photographer David Leikin 1974







Two friends and a girlfriend. Photographer L. Sidorsky 1976







The joy of labor, 1977







Hostel, photographer Michael Blonshteyn.









Woman with soup set. Novokuznetsk. 1984. Photographer Vladimir Vorobiev.







We found a chick. Photographer Yuri Privedentsev, 1964







Bubbles, photographer Michael Blonshteyn.







Not my damn business. Photographer Vladimir Bogdanov, 1965







THE USSR. Lesson in elementary rural school in 1964.





Seating factory, 1954. Photo Henri Cartier-Bresson.







Kind hands. Photographer Alexander Ptitsyn 1970







Halt geologists. Photographer L. Sherstennikov 1970







Holidays. Photographer Alexander Drozdov, 1976







A boy with a puppy. Photographer Andrzej Bogusz 1968







Sisters. Photographer Nina and Dmitry Sviridov Vozdvyzhensky 1975







Nevsky Avenue. Photographer Valery Gende-Rote, 1970.







Duel. Photographer Vsevolod Tarasevich 1977





See also:

This child is no longer

Happy moments USSR

Back to the past: the mental images from the Soviet Union



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