No doubt photography was a popular art in the USSR. Here and below are pictures taken by the people all over the Soviet state of Moldavia. Today's set based on the book called "Moldavian Art of photography", Kishinev (recently renamed to Chisinau), 1985.

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Portrait of a Worker by M. Potyrnike

Optimist by V. Gaydash

Eyes by V. Bozhenko

Veterans by A. Simanovsky

Summer-83 by A. Gomonuk

Kickback by A. Grinko

Many thanks to a Russian photographer Liubov Sautina for keeping these fascinating pictures. Please visit her Flickr page.

If you would like to clar­ify what is on the pho­tos — do not hes­i­tate to ques­tion.

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