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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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Happy Birthday Dear USSR! The Great October Socialist Revolution. November 7th 1917.

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serov1918 provozlashenie sov vlasti 376x500 Happy Birthday Dear USSR! The Great October Socialist Revolution. November 7th 1917.

The Announce­ment of the Soviet Gov­ern­ment. By Vladimir Serov, 1918.

The Soviet Union was offi­cially cre­ated in 1922, how­ever, if there was a date which could be con­sid­ered as a birth­day of the USSR, that would have had to be Novem­ber 7th of 1917  — this was the day when in St Peters­burg the Bol­she­viks — the organ­ised mil­i­tary rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies, who later became the Com­mu­nist Party of the USSR — came to power. The Russ­ian Pro­vi­sional Gov­ern­ment which were the head of the coun­try after the Tsar Nicholas II had resigned, was over­thrown and the Sovi­ets, tak­ing the gov­ern­ment build­ings one by one, had finally cap­tured the town.

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

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RU45 500x333 A Glance at the Soviet Lifestyle, Captured by Marc Riboud.

A singing class, 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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Photos of Moscow and Surroundings by Marc Riboud, 1960s

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This is our sec­ond post devoted to the out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher Marc Riboud who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union in the 1960s. His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple — today it is a col­lec­tion of images of peo­ple out in the streets. The first lot can be found here. As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass to see the pho­tos in detail.

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Moscow 1960

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Photos of Moscow and Surroundings by Marc Riboud, 1960s

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Remem­ber the pho­to­graph of a young Amer­i­can girl with a flower who con­fronts the sol­diers with bay­o­nets, out­side the Pen­ta­gon dur­ing the 1967 anti-Vietnam march? This promi­nent image, which is said to help to turn pub­lic opin­ion against the war in Viet­nam, was taken by one of the most influ­en­tial pho­tog­ra­phers of our time, Marc Riboud. Marc Riboud, a cos­mopoli­tan French­man, had vis­ited exten­sively across the world and, in 1960 – 1963, vis­ited the Soviet Union. His pho­tos are very sim­ple yet thought pro­vok­ing, and in the course of events of the deceased coun­try, hold a very spe­cial mean­ing. The Soviet epoch is long gone, but the mem­o­ries are pre­served through his pho­tographs. Have a look.

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Moscow, 1960

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