15 republics of the former USSR

All of these pictures were taken within one year while traveling to the former Soviet republics. In the pictures you can see how the latter-day states are trying to determine its identity after the collapse of the communist empire. The territory of contrasts, where the lack of wealth and poverty and and ... Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.





Ayni, Tajikistan.



Tiraspol, the Transnistrian republic.



Sumgait, Azerbaijan.



Tomsk, Russia.



Sillamae, Estonia.



Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia.



A landfill in Baku, Azerbaijan.



Vladivostok, Russia.



Andijan, Uzbekistan.



Riga, Latvia.



Gyumri, Armenia.



Evpatoria, Ukraine.



Astana, Kazakhstan.



Vilnius, Lithuania.



Murghab, Tajikistan.



Vladivostok, Russia.



Zhlobin, Belarus.



Jambul, Kazakhstan.



Brest, Belarus.



Beshbarmak, Azerbaijan.



Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.



Lake Toktogul, Kyrgyztan.



Minsk, Belarus.



Yerevan, Armenia.



Source: fototelegraf.ru