Rare warm and luminous photographs from the USSR, taken in different decades and throughout the territory of the once great country. We hope this selection will help you feel the spirit and customs of that time and show the atmosphere of friendship and unity.
Bicycle, photographer Mikhail
On the road.
Youth. Photographer A. Ryavoshapka, 1976
Bullet.
Sabantui. Photographer Y. Filimonov, 1980
Dairy department of the supermarket, Novokuznetsk, 1983.
It's spring outside! Photographer Anatoly Garanin, 1980
Well master. Photographer P. Krivtsov, 1982
Generations. Photographer I. Utkin, 1978
Trio.
Two. Photographer David Leikin, 1974
Two friends and a girlfriend. Photographer L. Sidorsky, 1976
The Joy of Labor, 1977
Dorm, photographer Mikhail Blonshtein.
Woman with soup set. Novokuznetsk. 1984. Photographer Vladimir Vorobyov.
We found a chick. Photographer Yuri Privedentsev, 1964
Bubbles, photographer Mikhail Blonstein.
It's none of my damn business. Photographer V. Bogdanov, 1965
THE USSR. Lesson in a rural elementary school in 1964.
Factory worker, 1954. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Kind hands. Photographer Alexander Ptitsyn, 1970
Halt for geologists. Photographer L. Sherstennikov, 1970
Holidays. Photographer A. Drozdov, 1976
Boy with a puppy. Photographer Andrzej Bogusz, 1968
Sisters. Photographer Nina Sviridova and Dmitry Vozdvizhensky, 1975
Nevsky Avenue. Photographer Valery Gende-Rote, 1970s.
Duel. Photographer Vsevolod Tarasevich, 1977
