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Stylish and beautiful. The furniture and interior items are most perceived as outdated rubbish that has no place in modern, stylish interiors. But this opinion is only partly true. The interior, where there are some vintage parts may look important and impressive. We offer a fresh selection of delicious interiors, …

Photos taken by major Martin Mungofa. Spy is their and scout — our. It is unknown for certain what role in world history played an employee of the U.S. Embassy in the USSR, assistant military attache, major Martin Manhoff.He worked in the Embassy in Moscow from 1952 to 1954, after …

It seemed to me that I can’t remember 1981, much worse than 1979 or 1980. There were no bright events, for which one would “catch”. But I looked these pictures and images, impressions of that time began to rise, to emerge from the depths of memory. In General, 1981 – …

Interesting instances of Soviet electronics. Today there is a perception that there is no prophet in his own country, and all the modern electronic devices were invented somewhere in the West. But in fact the USSR had a lot of interesting developments gadgets. Some of them became the life of …

And how were the weddings in the USSR? The Soviet Union, a state that no longer exists on the world map, it was the biggest, but at the same time, the majority of Soviet citizens lived a much more modest and had disproportionately fewer opportunities than today’s Russians. Look at …

These pictures produce a painful impression. Today it is difficult to imagine that survived the Soviet people during the Nazi occupation during the great Patriotic war. Pictures from the German archives are giving the opportunity to travel during that terrible time, to touch the history.

Soviet cars that were incredibly similar to foreign models. Upon closer inspection, you notice that many Soviet production cars were almost exact copies of foreign models older model years. On such striking similarities we have collected detailed information. 1. ZAZ 965 – Fiat600 The car ZAZ 965. The Fiat 600. …

Place of Khrushchev in Soviet life. It is now the so-called Khrushchev find fault and threaten to bulldoze. But 50 years ago these squat houses saved the country from the powerful to the housing crisis. And from an aesthetic point of view, brand-new five-story building was much more attractive than …

Profession model, so popular in the modern world, was considered undesirable. Models called “models”, and their wages never exceeded 76 rubles. And yet there were beauties who managed to build his career — one at home, others abroad. The Soviet era was very inconsistent and ambiguous in relation to the …

The cold war began for the USSR, a difficult challenge. However, the growing tension of international relations with America allowed the Soviet Union to make a giant leap industrial: during the development of technology, which in turn demanded material support. Monumental buildings of that time and to this day the …