Moscow Winters, Fragments of the 20th Century.

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Here is a fine col­lec­tion of images of Moscow win­ters, dat­ing from 1920s till 1991. Sadly many places por­trayed on these pho­tographs are gone now, just like the Soviet Union itself, yet lest we for­get.  Please read on to see the image of the first set of traf­fic lights in Moscow CBD in late 1930s, which was oper­ated by a spe­cially trained per­son; or the largest fresh­wa­ter out­door  swim­ming pool in the world -  as well as peo­ple, wooden houses, old boule­vards cov­ered with the vir­gin snow.

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1925. A pri­vate house on the bank of the Tarakanovka river

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1991. Swim­ming pool “Moscow”, no longer exists.

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1968. “Fili” sta­dium, the open­ing of Win­ter Olympics between the dwellers of the nearby apart­ment blocks

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1947. Moscow central.

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1960. Rozhdestven­sky Boulevard.

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1960. The Red Square skiing

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1960. The Sverdlov Square.

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Late 1940s. Leningrad­sky Road

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1059. A kiosk not far from “Borovit­skaya” Met­ro­pol­i­tan station.

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Mid1950s. Kolomen­skoe.

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1959. The Krem­lin Embankment.

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1959. The Sokol­niki Park

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1959. Gogol Boulevard.

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Late 1930s. The very first set of traf­fic lights in Moscow central.

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Late 1940s. Dorogomilovo

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1959. The Arbat Square.

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1959. A food mar­ket, next to the “Dairy” pavillion

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1959. Next to National Hotel

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1962. Ice hockey match on the Novode­vichy Pond.

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Close to 1920. The Red Square.

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1976. Phys Ed les­son, Mt Poklonnaya

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1959. Next to Metro­pole Hotel.

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1959. Next to Metro­pole Hotel

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Late 1950s. The con­trasts of Koutu­zovsky Street.

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1959. Bersenevsky Embankment.

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1959. Manezh.

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1959. Moscow State University

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1959. Yaroslavsky Rail­way Station.

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1957. Petro­vka Street

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1959. Chistye Prudy Boulevard.

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1959. Vasilievsky Slope.

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1990. Var­varka Street

These images cour­tesy of Carl Mydans, Edward Clark, Marc Riboud, Thomas D. Mcavoy. As always, please click on the mag­ni­fy­ing icon to see the images in detail. Fol­low us on twit­ter and stay tuned. Thanks a bunch!


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