Sunday, 4 October 2026

Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow in the 1960s

Black-and-white photo of boys in shorts lying on a granite plinth with a large urn on a square, a metro station pavilion behind them.

Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences

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