Underground pedestrian crossing under Gorky and Okhotny Ryad streets. Photo by Yu. Abramochkin (Moscow, 1960).
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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“Peace. Work. May”, a classic May Day slogan in the USSR (Moscow, 1960s)
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
Making of “Walking the Streets of Moscow”, a Soviet 1963 movie.
Entrance to the Rossiya cinema theater on Pushkin Square in Moscow (1960s)
Children looking at the newly built Ostankino TV tower (Moscow, late 1960s)
Yunost Hotel in Moscow, photo by Naum Granovsky (1960s)
“Original ideas come unexpectedly.” Fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev on Belarusskaya metro station in Moscow (1960s)
Moscow, 1960s. Photo by M. Trakhman.
Feeding pigeons in Moscow, early 1960s (via Anna Vladimirova)
Operetta Theater in Moscow, photo by Viktor Akhlomov (1960s)