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Work Sherstennikova is a portrait of the era, consisting of thousands of individuals, landscapes, and just frozen in the frame of historical events. Lev Sherstennikov was born in 1938 in Ufa. Photography was carried away in elementary school. He studied at the Leningrad Institute of cinema engineers, received the diploma …

In the Soviet cinema had a lot of great comedies we’ve seen these actors. Distinguishing comedians was partly hostage to their roles, but the love of the audience to the funny characters have always been huge. 1. Coward, Bobby, Experienced (Georgy Vitsin, Yuri Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov) Every actor of this …

Soviet trade as it is. Today, when it comes to the USSR, many of us remember the days of shortages and long queues at the shops. But in fact the situation was already on the decline of the Soviet Union. And while the shops could not boast of the abundance …

Selected works of the Soviet star Vladimir’s photos Rolova“I shoot people because you love them. Rare and commonplace, you know. And I am glad to say it differently, but there are no other words, this is the most loyal, anyway, writes in his book “Photo stories from the ’80s” one …

A selection of Soviet propaganda posters. Posters of the USSR was an effective way to promote and affect various segments of society. Such agitation can be seen in the workplace, and in public institutions, in shops and on the streets on special stands. Today, these posters – a huge cultural …

The infamous period from 1930 to 1950-ies in the history of the Soviet Union are inscribed in bloody ink. October 1, 1930 was established the GULAG – the chief Administration of camps. Throughout all the republics of the USSR, the GULAG was a network of labor camps in which during …

The markets had enough food. Someone said that the USSR had no food in the stores and markets there were only 2-3 types of sausage, and a variety of products could not boast. These photographs refute those rumors, though there was no food, to which we are accustomed now, there …

After seeing I want to go in search of a time machine. The project group of historians from St. Petersburg “On the roads and forests. Abandoned country” together with the YouTube channel “Russian secrets” found more than one billion Soviet rubles. A member of the journey of Olga Bogdanova told …

Dead cosmonaut Victor Gorbatko.Cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko has died in Moscow at the age of 82 years. “The last time he felt bad and the last two weeks was in the hospital Mandryka, where he died today in intensive care,” — said the source. His first space flight Gorbatko made in …

The Russians made a mistake. Social media users angered by photos of the new memorial to veterans of world war II in Rostov-on-don (Russia), in which he made a grammatical error. The photo was published in a social network “Vkontakte”. The photo shows that the word “heroically” omitted the letter …