In about six weeks this remark­able man will cel­e­brate his 80^th Birth­day. Who is he? The most pop­u­lar clown of the Soviet Union, also known as the Sun­shine Clown, Oleg Popov is true icon of its own. Born in 1930, he had on of the tough­est upbring­ings ever  —  yet he man­aged to become one of most […]

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On May, 25^th 1945 Joseph Stalin made a cel­e­bra­tory speech devoted to the end of the Russ­ian Great Patri­otic War. The Sec­ond World War was com­ing to an end, but the Soviet Union was done fight­ing. The Russ­ian troops had exited Ger­many and ahead lied a long road of rebuild­ing and reha­bil­i­ta­tion. So in Kremlin, […]

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I find great plea­sure in look­ing at the faces of peo­ple from the days long gone. Read­ing the fine lines is like try­ing to map out the events that took place before we were even born  —  or were too far away from where it hap­pened. Please enjoy a fine col­lec­tion of the images below  —  some are just […]

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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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