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So! What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

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You will be quite a craftsman!

A Review of Occu­pa­tions in the Soviet Soci­ety: the high, the low and the marginal.

The Pro­fes­sional Ori­en­ta­tion in the USSR meant, first and fore­most, a process of advis­ing the youth on the future career choices. A group of teach­ers and fresh grad­u­ates of a col­lege would go to high schools to give talks to school kids in order to deliver the first hand infor­ma­tion on voca­tional choices. Every occu­pa­tion is regarded highly in the Soviet Union  — well, this slo­gan turned out to be quite untruth­ful. Please read on find out about the dif­fer­ences in social lad­der between the dif­fer­ent occu­pa­tional groups. The hier­ar­chy of labour was a prime ele­ment in social dis­crep­an­cies in this country.

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More pictures of Soviet Moscow 1960s by Mark Riboud

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RU38 500x333 More pictures of Soviet Moscow 1960s by Mark Riboud

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.

1 500x329 Enthusiastic Photography from Soviet Russia, 1950s 1960s.

Wait­ing for the play off.

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

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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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The 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Old American Mags

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coeer 500x335 The 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Old American Mags

Life and Look on the 50th Anniver­sary of the USSR, 1967.

In 1967, when the USSR turned 5o, it was a big day for both the coun­try and the world. The Soviet Union had made it through, despite every­thing — and the world now had to take it seri­ously. The Cold War, which was at its high­est at the time, kept the USSR in the spot­light, too, so the media were more than inter­ested in the young Russ­ian coun­try.  It really is a shame that the writ­ing can­not be deci­phered due to the low res­o­lu­tion of these scans. How­ever, these images  con­vey the atmos­phere of the times quite well — a wild yet sophis­ti­cated coun­try in the eyes of the civilised world.

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Christian Dior in Moscow: a Fleeting Sense of Happiness

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19 500x329 Christian Dior in Moscow: a Fleeting Sense of Happiness

1959. The offi­cial photo shoot, images cour­tesy of LIFE archives (Howard Sochurek)

The Khrushchev’s Thaw was to bring change to many aspects of the Soviet life, and fash­ion was  one of them. The deci­sion to allow the Soviet fash­ion design­ers to learn off their French coun­ter­parts was made as high as at the gov­ern­ment level, which implic­itly put fash­ion above pol­i­tics or inter­na­tional ide­o­log­i­cal regimes. The colour of the Soviet Union, a generic grey, was about to be mixed up with the mot­ley and lithe palette of the French fashion.

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