At the Ogonyok self-service store on the 5th Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. Photo by D. Kozlov (Moscow, February 1960).
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Bread department of the grocery store at 3 Gorky Street (Moscow, 1947)
Assistants of the new grocery store in Yuznoye Izmailovo E. Tsinak and I. Kondalina lay out canned goods. Photo by L. Glagolev (Moscow, Aug. 1979).
Okean grocery store in Moscow, photo by V. Sozinov (1971)
GUM department store in Moscow. Photo by Lisa Larsen (1956).
A self-service store in Moscow (1955)
“Visitors, having received a basket from the doorman, go around the trading floor and take the necessary goods from the shelf.”
Grocery store #15 in the high rise residential building on Vosstaniya Square (Moscow, 1950s)
Shop girl with tree toppers on her fingers. “House of Toys” store in Moscow. Photo by P. Nosov (1967).
Petrovsky Passazh department store in Moscow. Photo by David Sholomovich (1955).
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Toy department in TsUM [Central Department Store] in Moscow (1948)
A grocery store in Vorkuta, Russia (1950s).
The Passage - department store in St Petersburg (Leningrad), 1924
Synthetics Store in Moscow. Photo by Ivan Shagin (1963)
Souvenir Section of the Central Department Store (TSUM) (Moscow, 1979)
Candy kiosk in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1958).