Soviet Era Photos
HISTORY
A random collection of pictures offering a glimpse into an imperial power that never was
1. Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union during the October Revolution; 1917
2. The cover of most popular weekly, “Ogoniok,” reads, “Don’t Kiss; it spreads the flu”; 1928
3. Citizens assist workers in erecting poles that would bring electricity to their village; 1929
4. Chemical defense practice at the NKVD sanatorium kitchen; 1930
5. Soviet sailors trying to diffuse a German mine; 1939
6. During a performance, artists from the Leningrad State Theater of Physical Education Spartak, 1940.
7. When Stalin learned that Nazi Germany had launched an offensive against the Soviet Union, 1941
8. Soviet soldiers jubilant over the Axis defeat and the conclusion of World War II; 1945
9. The Red Army gathering Nazi banners, which would later be burned; 1945
10. Engineers glance at their newly developed propeller engines from the porthole; 1954
11. First diesel locomotive “TE7” during its unveiling at the Leningrad-Moskovsky Station, 1957
12. The “Italian Communist Party” campaigns using a model of the Soviet Sputnik satellite; 1958
13. Protests outside American Embassy against United States’ role in the Lebanese civil war; 1958
14. At Izmailovsky Park, children play on a modified swing; 1962
15. An abandoned apartment complex in Kirovsky being reclaimed by nature; 1964
16. A Kyrgyz nomad checks a Snow Leopard shot with a tranquilizer rifle; 1966
17. The last photo of Soviet submarine PL-574 before it sank; 1968
18. A young girl pictured amidst the celebrations of the “May Day” corteges; 1968
19. Vladimir Putin dances with his classmate during a party at Leningrad State University; 1970
20. Schoolchildren playing with their newfound friend at a Moscow school, 1974
21. American and Soviet crew members of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission (ASTP); 1975
22. Soviet schoolteachers and their child, portraying a typical Soviet home of the era; 1977
23. A trainee nurse pictured in a City Hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit; 1977
24. A Soviet soldier clutches a hare he found in the countryside; 1979.
25. A Soviet military dog clad in a cap, binoculars, and an AK-47 weapon; late 1980s
26. A photograph captures physicians’ expressions during the medical examination of athletes; 1980s
27. A young girl enjoys playing around while milking the cow; 1980s
28. In a top-secret facility, scientists are working on better computer algorithms; 1980s
29. Children enjoying their ultraviolet light cleansing in a Novokuznetsk orphanage; 1981
30. A woman quickly boards the last carriage of a train leaving the Novokuznetsk station; 1983
31. The Chernobyl reactor 4 during its construction, three years before the nuclear disaster; 1983
32. Combat Veterans gather for a reunion at the Red Square in Moscow; 1985
33. Brothers belonging to an affluent family playing around with a pistol; 1985
34. Arnold Schwarzenegger meets his idol, Yuri Vlasov in Moscow; 1988
35. Hundreds of people queue up for a chance to hack the Berlin Wall; 1989
36. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, millions of people moved from East Berlin to West Berlin; 1989
37. A Soviet policeman pictured as customers waiting to enter a newly opened McDonald’s; 1990
38. During the Soviet Union’s final months empty grocery shelves had become the norm; 1990
39. Protesters swarm the streets of Tajikistan, in defiance of the Soviet regime; 1990
40. Lithuanian citizens vote to decide whether to be a part of the Soviet Union or become a free nation; 1991
41. The young boy standing beside a toppled Lenin statue in Ethiopia; 1991
42. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck onboard the Mir Space Station after the Soviet Union collapsed ; 1991
43. Workers in Berlin pulling down a statue of Vladimir Lenin after the fall of the USSR; 1991
44. Pictured after the failed August Coup, Soviet punks pose on a tank; 1991
45. During the October coup, a soldier kisses his girlfriend, 1993
46. An Azerbaijani girl decorates her father’s tomb, who died fighting against Soviet Occupation; 1993
47. Youngsters stroll past an aging woman in Moscow, days after the fall of the soviet union; 1993
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