Soviet homeless 1920s Bashny.Net

The former Museum of the Revolution opens its fotofondy to show portraits of children, whose share fell two wars, hunger and poverty.
A collection of photos GTSMSIR formed from 20-ies. the last century and has no less than 180 thousand images and 160 thousand negatives. While at the museum, formerly known as the Museum of the Revolution, a special role is an issue paper here for nearly a century has accumulated a unique set of photographs of everyday life and everyday life of all sectors of the Russian population.
21 photos from here

1. Homeless and starving children on the Nicholas Station. Moscow, 1920 (© State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia)
Homeless 1920 - are children of the First World, the revolution, terror and hunger. The strongest children of our time. According to various sources, at the beginning of 1920 in Russia, there were between 4 and 7 million children deprived of their homes and parents.





2. Homeless. Moscow 1922
The young Soviet state declared the fight against homelessness political task, and in 1935 it was officially announced the complete elimination of homelessness and neglect. Maybe that's why, perhaps, for ideological reasons, but the museum photo archive on this subject is very small and ends at 1930 year.



3. dustbin - dwelling homeless. Odessa 1928
In the fund for a maximum of two hundred photographs, and the more expensive the collection for posterity. With employees GTSMSIR we have selected for readers COLTA.RU pictures, best exemplifies the life of street children, their homes and occupations, the first steps to maybe just a better life in the shelters.



4. Homeless playing cards 1925



5. Homeless. Arkhangelsk, 1920.



6. A group of street children. Moscow 1922



7. Stray boy with a dog. Samara 1930



8. Registration of street children in the duty room of the school for street Moscow department of education. Moscow 1928



9. Homeless hostel in the receiver listening to the radio. Moscow 1925



10. Classes with former street children. Moscow 1925



11. Nochlezhka street at Smolensky boulevard. Moscow 1926



12. Two homeless on the street near the furnace. Shabolovsky orphanage. Moscow 1925



13. Help the starving Volga. Orphans whose parents have died of starvation in an orphanage. Stavropol, 1921-1922



14. The fight against hunger and homelessness. Volga 1921



15. Bathing street boys in Pokrovsky receiver. Moscow 1925



16. Education homeless. Moscow 1926



17. Homeless in the parade. 1925



18. The fight against hunger and homelessness. Volga 1921



19. The fight against hunger and homelessness. Volga 1921



20. The fight against hunger and homelessness. In the infirmary. Volga 1921



21. The fight against hunger and homelessness. Volga 1921



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