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Novosibirsk: Then and Now.

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The Com­mu­nal Bridge, back then (late 1970s)

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The Com­mu­nal Bridge, nowadays.

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 had become to grow and prosper.By 1962, Novosi­birsk became the youngest city in the world to have the pop­u­la­tion of 1 mil­lion — it only took about 70 years. Now it is an impor­tant indus­trial, cul­tural and socioe­co­nomic hub of the country.

We realise that today’s post is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from our usual for­mat, as the mod­ern pic­tures of the city are, well, mod­ern and not of the Soviet epoch. It is still nice to see, how­ever, how the city has been chang­ing over the past hun­dred years — and the old pho­tographs are still full of life and very easy on the eye.

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A Rough Guide to Moscow from the Daughter of the American Ambassador

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Joseph E. Davies was the sec­ond Ambas­sador to rep­re­sent the United States in the Soviet Union in 1937 – 1938.

His daugh­ter, the twenty years old Emlen Knight Davies, took some pic­tures of the sur­round­ings. These images, cour­tesy of her pri­vate col­lec­tion, were on dis­play in Moscow for the anniver­sary of the Spaso House — the offi­cial diplo­matic residence.

These 19 images por­tray Moscow in a slightly dif­fer­ent view — the entire pre-war epoch ended was just about to end, and those times, still full of life and char­ac­ter, still look very charming.

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Emlen Knight Davies, at the age of 20 (ish)

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Moscow Winters, Fragments of the 20th Century.

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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, which was oper­ated by a spe­cially trained per­son; or the largest fresh­wa­ter out­door  swim­ming pool in the world -  as well as peo­ple, wooden houses, old boule­vards cov­ered with the vir­gin snow.

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1925. A pri­vate house on the bank of the Tarakanovka river

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Best of Fall 2009

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A Glance at the Soviet Lifestyle, Cap­tured by Marc Riboud.

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Museum, Moscow, 1960s

This is our third 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.  Here is the first lot — and here is the sec­ond one. As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the pho­tos in detail.

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More pictures of Soviet Moscow 1960s by Mark Riboud

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Moscow, 1960s

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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Enthusiastic Photography from Soviet Russia, 1950s — 1960s.

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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 a face.

As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the pho­tos in detail. All pho­tos are cour­tesy of Sergey Kulikov, a grand­dad of one of our con­trib­u­tors. He is 86 years old now, and pho­tog­ra­phy has been his hobby all along. Let us know which ones you like — or if you have pho­tos in your fam­ily archive which you’d like to share.

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Wait­ing for the play off.

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