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 click on the magnifying lens image for the close up and if you like it — tell your friends!
Images courtesy of Eugene Orlov. Late 1960s.
While the children from Europe and USA used to play with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, their Soviet counterparts enjoyed the characters of Souzmultfilm’s cartoons – the analogues of the American Tom and Jerry – the Hare and the Wolf. The Soviet slot machines were an integral part of entertainment in the USSR. For an ordinary Soviet citizen these slot machines were inseparably linked to walks with parents and friends in the amusement parks, eating ice-cream and candy floss, and feeding endless coins to the slots to get some great entertainment value.
Soviet Slot Machines
These slot machines were produced at the former military factories partially converted into the civilian production in 1970s.