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Creativity Zoya Cherkassky – a real time machine for a whole generation of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. Her work is simple and recognizable all over the world. And, despite the fact that sometimes some of the spectators manage to criticize her paintings in the primitive, the …

They have long matured. All Soviet children fled the house from the yard when the TV was showing movies with these actors, that is to say, at that time was also at a very tender age. But time runs the same for everyone – for the audience and for the …

Oh this tuning. Someone will remember, someone will laugh and someone will wonder what this is for.

Rare pictures taken in the 80s. These pictures are from the time where there was no photoshop, and bright makeup. The fashion was genuine a real beauty and cute girls of the time knew how to charm with its naturalness and sincerity. We have collected for you photos of women …

Retro photos taken in the 1990-ies. It was a welcome time of change, which many have been waiting for. It was a bitter time of failure. It was a difficult time of formation of new countries. About how people lived during that difficult time, tell a selection of documentary photographs …

Now this resort was abandoned. In a remote mountain region of Georgia can be seen is a reminder of the Soviet past of the country. Hidden behind the Caucasian mountain ridge, the resort Shovi remained forgotten for many decades. Looking at incredibly beautiful scenery, I understand why this place was …

Iconic historical photographs. Already in the mid-1980s, it became clear that Soviet policy in Afghanistan is a stub. Limited contingent of Soviet troops in the DRA in cooperation with local government forces did not allow the Mujahideen to take control of the major cities of the country, however, to completely …

“Golden spike” was very popular. Zolotoy Kolos is the main restaurant at the exhibition centre, in the USSR, he was considered one of the most prestigious along with the “Prague” and “Moscow”, and to get there, there was a record six months ahead. Let’s see what’s left of it. 1. …

The anniversary of the terrible tragedy. 38 years ago, August 11, 1979, was one of the deadliest crashes in the history of the USSR: two passenger aircraft Tu-134 collided in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. Killing 178 people, including 17 members of the football team “Pakhtakor”. Guilty in this tragedy acknowledged …

The Work Of Yuri Abramochkin. Many frames Abramochkin become classics of Soviet photography. Young photographers are learning to see the significant in the everyday. Yuri Abramochkin is a world renowned photographer, the legend of Soviet photo essay. Began working as a photojournalist at the age of 21, is doing well …