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Soviet Soldiers on the Steps of the Reich Chancellery
Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, May 1945
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Chopping the Cabbage
Orenburg Governorate, 1900s
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The Mona Lisa Returns to the Louvre from Wartime Evacuation
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Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956
Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956. My grandmother always used to tell how hard it was for her parents to pay for her schooling, and the
Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Society
The People of Kostroma Greet the Imperial Family in May 1913
In the 23 years of his reign Nicholas II did not travel much about Russia, Crimea, Finland and the hunting at Spała excepted. His meetings with the people were few. The celebration of the tercentenary of the ruling house was the exception. But what was planned for 1913 was not
NB! · Archive · People · Saint Petersburg
Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad on the day of his departure from the USSR, 4 June 1972
Archive · Cinema · Society
One of the Most Spectacular Sights in the History of World Aviation: the Agitprop Aeroplane of the Magazine Krokodil, an ANT-9 from the Experimental Series
Yes, exactly so: in the 1930s Soviet magazines had aeroplanes of their own. An entire air fleet. The first to think of raising money for an aeroplane of their own was Ogonyok, in 1932, and out of that idea was born the agitprop squadron dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of
NB! · Archive · The East · Mores
A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids
A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids. Cairo, 1958
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Tatiana Nikitichna Tolstaya as a Child
Archive · Architecture · New York · People
Envy of the Soviet Passport against the Brooklyn Bridge and the legendary neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, at the time of the photograph the tallest building in the world
That is to say, the page from issue 7 of the magazine "USSR in Construction" for 1940 is a photomontage. Mayakovsky, in overcoat and hat, holding a gigantic Soviet foreign passport, was superimposed on this historic photograph by Irving Underhill, taken in 1921. The most amusing thing is
Archive · Moscow · Education
Moscow: A City of Universal Literacy
Photo collage, 1934
Archive · Art
KuKryNiksy: the artists Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolay Sokolov
Photograph by Dmitry Baltermants, 1960s