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Soviet/Post-Soviet photography, architecture & design.

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Installation of a mosaic inside Kievskaya metro station in Moscow. 1953 © Valentin Khukhlayev/

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20.03.2025 08:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Argun, Chechnya. 2017 © Kirill Kudryavtsev

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20.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A man is having a rest after winter swimming while children in the background are playing with paper ships. Chelyabinsk Region. © Viktor Sosunov

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20.03.2025 08:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region. 2015 © Steve McCurry

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19.03.2025 15:49 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leningrad. 1987 © Ferdinando Scianna

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19.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A wedding registration. Bratsk. 1967. © Elliott Erwitt

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19.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Torgim, an Ingush village in the Assi valley that was thriving in the 16th and 17th centuries. © Alexander Polyakov

#photography #Russia #NorthCaucasus #Ingushetia

13.03.2025 16:49 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At the Nashestvie 2012 fest. "Korol i Shut" fans © Vladimir Astapkovich

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12.03.2025 10:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flight attendant Elena Ivantsova loading sea buckthorn seedlings into the cargo compartment of a passenger airliner. Barnaul. 1991 © Viktor Sadchikov

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12.03.2025 10:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The first All-Union competition of flight attendants. The winner of the contest Ekaterina Kuznetsova performs. 1972. © Lev Polikashin

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12.03.2025 10:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Moscow Vnukovo Airport. Aeroflot stewardess after a flight. 1961. © Georgy Petrusov

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12.03.2025 10:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leaders of the Communist Party of Russia bear the casket of Leonid Brezhnev, former Communist Party leader, in front of the Tomb of Lenin in Red Square during the funeral procession. Moscow. 1982 © Bettman

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12.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maslenitsa in Moscow. 2025 © Stanislav Krasilnikov

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04.03.2025 08:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A girl with a dog. Penza Region. 1985. © Rustam Mukhametzyanov

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04.03.2025 08:34 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A woman stands on the rooftop of the Moskvich building. © Artyom Zhitenev

#photography #Russia #monochrome

26.02.2025 20:37 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At a Soviet factory in Cheboksary © Rudolph Alfimov

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26.02.2025 20:35 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A housewarming party in Moscow's Orekhovo-Borisovo district. © Yuri Abramochkin

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25.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A birthday party of future Russian movie director Egor Konchalovsky. 1972. © Viktor Ruykovich

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25.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spring in Moscow. 1959 © Vadim Kruglikov

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21.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A girl at the shopfront of a Moscow department store ‘Detsky mir’ (‘Children’s World’) © Galina Kiseleva

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21.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Baltic Fleet sailors talk to a girl named Lyusya. She and other children are being evacuated from a besieged city. © Boris Kudoyarov

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21.02.2025 17:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A boy collects apples in the north of Kazakhstan. 1965 © Yuri Abramochkin

#SovietVisuals #photography #Kazakhstan #CentralAsia

21.02.2025 17:04 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The birth of a ballerina. 1965 © Yuri Abramochkin

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21.02.2025 17:03 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A short snack break and school news. The construction of the ‘Rossiya’ hotel. 1965 © Yuri Abramochkin

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21.02.2025 17:02 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The traditional Caucasian dance Lezginka performed by Makhmud Esambaev, one of the region’s most celebrated dancers. 1971 © Yuri Abramochkin

#SovietVisuals #photography #Caucasus #Kavkaz #lezginka

21.02.2025 17:00 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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President Mikhail Gorbachev during the second session of the Russian Communist Party congress. Moscow. 1990 © AP

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21.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bartender of Gambrinus bar. 1967 © Svet

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21.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An empty Red Square. Moscow. 2020 © Arsen Revazov

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20.02.2025 11:52 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writer Chingiz Aitmatov. 1972 © Oleg Porokhovnikov

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19.02.2025 09:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Women on the streets of Kazan. 1981 © Boris Kaufman

#Russia #photography #SovietVisuals #monochrome

17.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0