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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One of the main criti­sisms of the Soviet Union now, from an every day per­spec­tive, was the huge deficit of every­thing. The planned econ­omy failed to sup­ply a con­stant flow of goods nec­es­sary for the well being of peo­ple. It was not the mat­ter of inca­pac­ity  —  no, the means cer­tainly allowed to build space shut­tles or […]

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The Soviet Union com­prised one-sixth of the earth’s land sur­face which made the one-family detached houses pos­si­ble to build, unlike in the coun­tries with the lack of land ter­ri­to­ries. How­ever, the over­all run­down of the coun­try after the WWII had forced the gov­ern­ment to com­mence the mass con­struc­tion of col­lec­tive flat blocks in order to […]

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