This is our fourth post devoted to Marc Riboud, an out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher, who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union.  His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple.  As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the pho­tos in detail.
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As you remem­ber from the pre­vi­ous post, at the age of 9 the Soviet Kids grew out of their Octo­ber Kids affil­i­a­tion. The next ide­o­log­i­cal rite of pas­sage was pio­neer­ing which the Soviet coun­try placed a huge impor­tance on. Loosely based on the Amer­i­can Boy Scout’s move­ment, pio­neer­ing cov­ered all kids till the age of […]

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1953 was the last year of long and ter­ri­fy­ing gov­ern­ing of Stalin. In Jan­u­ary the huge coun­try although accus­tomed to repres­sions shud­dered from the new hor­ror  –   this time the enemies-saboteurs were Krem­lin doc­tors of a Jew­ish ori­gin. The com­menced per­se­cu­tion also applied to ordi­nary doc­tors.  Soviet peo­ple who believed to the polit­i­cally edited sto­ries broadcast […]

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Just a very pleas­ant col­lec­tion of pho­tos from a pri­vate fam­ily archive. All pho­tos were taken in 1950s  —  1960s, in the streets of Yaroslavl, a small town not far from Moscow. Sim­ple things  —  out­door sports, fish­ing, swim­ming, enjoy­ing the music or spend­ing time with the fam­ily  —  these 38 pho­tos are rel­ish­ing small plea­sures and bring­ing a smile to […]

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It took us almost two weeks to get this done, but finally it’s here for you  —  the geog­ra­phy darts “How well you know the USSR”? The trivia would range from what the cap­i­tal of the USSR was to the place which was called “the ice cur­tain” on the bor­der of the US and Rus­sia. There are […]

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The Soviet Union was offi­cially cre­ated in 1922, how­ever, if there was a date which could be con­sid­ered as a birth­day of the USSR, that would have had to be Novem­ber 7^th of 1917   —  this was the day when in St Peters­burg the Bol­she­viks  —  the organ­ised mil­i­tary rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies, who later became the Com­mu­nist Party of the USSR  —  came […]

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