By many, St Peters­burg (Leningrad  in 1924  –  1991) is often con­sid­ered to be so beau­ti­ful due to its archi­tec­ture of Ital­ian ori­gin. Quite strange to see these fine build­ings embell­ished by the sym­bols of the Soviet Era. Let’s take a walk around this fine city in the sum­mer almost 30 years ago.

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Day of Inter­na­tional Sol­i­dar­ity of the Work­ing Class, or Labour Day  —  was cel­e­brated in Rus­sia on May, 1^st  from 1919 to 1990. A pub­lic hol­i­day for each every city, every town­ship or vil­lage had a parade organ­ised: flags were car­ried, posters and ban­ners were up, kids had red bal­lons and por­traits of the gov­ern­ing men were on […]

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We are very for­tu­nate to have gained the access to the col­lec­tion of pho­tographs below  —  they have come from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of Eugene Orlov, a keen pho­tog­ra­pher of 1960s, scanned by his grand­son. Por­trayed is a series of shots from a sum­mer walk in the Gorky Park, an iconic fam­ily recre­ational venue in Moscow. Please […]

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It is always inter­est­ing to see how for­eign­ers per­ceive Rus­sia. This time there’s no excep­tion  —  in 1957, dur­ing the 6^th World­wide Fes­ti­val of Youth And Stu­dents, a Swiss reporter Léonard Gianadda spent a few hot sum­mer days in Moscow, cap­tur­ing not only the Fes­ti­val pro­gramme, but ran­dom faces of Moscovites in the streets. 50 some­thing years […]

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Mil­i­tary Dis­charge Hand­made Scrap Book and Comics Album
The com­pul­sory two years of mil­i­tary ser­vice was a rite of pas­sage for every Soviet guy. When one turned eigh­teen  —  unless for sick­ness or injury  —  it was time to be called in for the mil­i­tary life  —  two years in the bar­racks. The guys usu­ally bonded well and dur­ing their spare time […]

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The unof­fi­cial cap­i­tal of Siberia, the city of Novosi­birsk was founded in 1893 with the ini­tial pop­u­la­tion of only 8,000 peo­ple. By the time of the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917,  it grew to the pop­u­la­tion size of 80,000. The name, lit­er­ally mean­ing New Siber­ian City, was adopted in 1926  —  and since then, the town […]

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