Cover of the Soviet Photo magazine, August 1966
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“Summer” by Aleksandra Saikina (1987)
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1962)
Fountain on Tverskaya square in Moscow (1950s)
Beach of river Irtysh in Omsk, Siberia. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin (June 16, 1971).
Horses in the field on the island of Kizhi. Photo by Boris Tairov (Karelia, USSR, 1960s).
“Visitors in the Artist’s Studio” by T. Fedotova (1981)
“On Every Page, Here’s an Elephant, There’s a Lioness” by Vladimir Mayakovsky, illustrated by V. Tsigal (1982)
Nikolai Ustinov. Illustration for Mikhail Prishvin’s “The Fox’s Bread” (1981).
A village in Karelia. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1937).
Zlatoust tower of the Novgorod Kremlin (1975)
Shenlik - a song and dance ensemble from Lankaran, Azerbaijan. Photo by A. Gostev (1982).
The first large shipment of Adidas trainers has arrived in Yerevan stores (Armenia, 1987)
![The Record cinema theater in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by V. Borodin (1970s).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c82e57b9221f2e1842ba4f28db76b398/522b921e74717db3-ea/s1280x1920/4cced43f36aa7132355a40a7549bdc5e16e89c44.jpg)
The Record cinema theater in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by V. Borodin (1970s).
Book Day. Selling books in the Park of Culture and Recreation in Cherepovets. Photo by Yu. Voronov (July 16, 1967).