Photos from the past (39 photos)

A selection of interesting photographs from the past. Not only ours, and not only close.

Ilya Glazunov paints a portrait of Fidel Castro





In this photo, workers are putting up scaffolding for renovation of the facade of a high-rise building. The supporting poles are made of bamboo. Hong Kong. 1950s. Photographer Fan Ho



Amsterdam, the flow of cyclists at the five-star Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky on the main square of the city (Dam), 1965



A local resident next to a fallen rocket stage, Komi Republic, 1990s



Vietnamese - fighters of the Siberian colonial battalion who fought against the Red Army, Ufa, 1918



U.S. Representative Warren Austin demonstrates at the Council UN Security Soviet submachine gun captured by American troops in July 1950 from a North Korean soldier, accusing the USSR of supply of arms to North Korea



Unscathed ancient Greek mosaics have been unearthed in the Turkish city of Zeugma. 2007



German soldiers search British paratroopers who have surrendered at Oosterbeek. 09/20/1944



Yuri Levitan at work...



E. Hemingway with colleagues, 1944



Exhibition of trophies. Moscow. 06/22/43



Small business in the 1990s



The world's first Mickey Mouse balloon, which was created with the participation of Walt Disney himself in 1934



The last four couples to reach the finals of the dance marathon in Chicago, 1930



Nikolay Rastorguev and members of the group "Six Young". 1979



The day of the abolition of restrictions on the sale of sweets in the country, the opening of a confectionery. UK, 1953



On September 26, 1953, the peoples of the United Kingdom learned the joyful news - almost 14 years after the introduction, rationing was canceled sugar introduced on January 8, 1940.

Sugar became the penultimate commodity covered by consumption rates. The latest were meat and butter. cards for him canceled on July 4, 1954. Along with sugar, restrictions were lifted on sweets trade.

The people were happy!! In the London suburb of Chafem, the owners a small candy factory drove a truck to a local school handed out 800 lollipops to schoolchildren, on sale in London two-pound (~900gr) chocolate packages appeared, and one London the factory invited everyone to come up and take a box with sweets.

Jews of Budapest rounded up for deportation to concentration camps, October 1944



Painting workshop of the Academy of Arts of Professor V. E. Makovsky. St. Petersburg. 1913



Sergei Yursky at the entrance to the Summer Garden, 1968. Photographer Maxim Blokhin



Marshal G.K. Zhukov and Commander of Long-Range Aviation, Colonel-General A.E. Golovanov. Bryansk Front, July 1943



Crooked seller. Tashkent, 1983. Photo by V. Usmanov



Sexy Legs 1953



Testing Volga GAZ-21 in the Karakum Desert (Turkmenistan), 1959



Harvesting potatoes, Petropavlovsk-Kaᴍchatsky, 1991



Agnès Suret first Miss France 1920



Washing trucks in the river under the Eagle. Photo by Jacques Dupaquier. 1964



Ambassador to Great Britain Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky cuts bars of the lattice fence of the USSR embassy in order to donate metal for the needs of the military industry. London. Great Britain. 1943



Kaiser's yacht "Hohenzollern" in the harbor of Venice, Italy, photochromic postcard. 1896



Military band with a timpani dog. Koenigsberg.1912-1913.



Promotional photo of the car Polski Fiat. 1968



In the image of Juliet backstage during preparations for the performance. Photo by Alexander Alexandrovich Makarov



Joseph Kobzon in his youth



On December 2, 1993, drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by the police in Medellin.



Spice Girls by Tim Roney, Paris '1996



Grandfather teaches his grandson to walk, while walking in Japanese-American internment camp Manzanar, 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange



Two women boxing with boxing gloves on their hands and feet in a New York nightclub, 1938



Monica Bellucci, 1990