1967. Despite of look­ing like a Min­istry of Truth pro­pa­ganda depart­ment, actu­ally this is a typ­i­cal book­shop of those days. Mod­ern book­shops look sim­i­lar to oth­ers in the world, full of dif­fer­ent books of all sorts and styles, but back in the Soviet times only por­traits of Lenin and the mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment were displayed.

Inside the Bookshop

1980. The exte­rior of a famous book­shop of Health Sci­ences lit­er­a­ture (Rus; “Vedmedik”). To the left from the entry there is a blue vend­ing machine with soda. In the  USSR such out­door vend­ing machines were very wide­spread (the drink­ing glasses for soda were of mul­ti­ple use) .

Exte­rior of the Bookshop

Sources: germanych.livejournal.com and wikimedia.org

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