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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Here is a fine col­lec­tion of images of Moscow win­ters, dat­ing from 1920s till 1991. Sadly many places por­trayed on these pho­tographs are gone now, just like the Soviet Union itself, yet lest we for­get.  Please read on to see the image of the first set of traf­fic lights in Moscow CBD in late 1930s, […]

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A good exam­ple of how the ideas to make a new car were born is the story of the fac­tory “Com­mu­nar”. The Min­is­ter of Car Man­u­fac­tur­ing made a call to the fac­tory where design­ers thought over the scheme of a new Ukrain­ian car and lit­er­ally said: “I heard you were going to make a spring […]

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Dur­ing the Soviet times fash­ion was first and fore­most, an instru­ment of pro­pa­ganda of hard work atti­tudes and edu­ca­tion of good taste. There­fore the way peo­ple were dressed was very strictly reg­u­lated  –  just like any­thing else, fash­ion had to be “planned” and “approved”.
Offi­cially the most pop­u­lar designs were the clas­sic ones. Not only were they set […]

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In the Soviet times there was a great short­age of all con­sumer prod­ucts. Clothes or food were no excep­tion. In order to buy some bread peo­ple were ready to spend hours and hours queu­ing up.
1983. A long queue into the footwear store. The length of the line implies that peo­ple would expect to buy imported footwear  which […]

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