A cool selection of 40-years past photos.
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Domodedovo airport.
Lenin in the bushes and a beautiful signal post.
Incredible but it’s a fact: the sidewalk has an asphalt ramp for prams. Even today it’s not often when you see it in Moscow.
Irkutsk, 1968
The airport. It seems that it will be here even in hundred years.
A great number of neon signs and stalls.
Today Irkutsk is the same but there are no signs anymore.
Leningrad, 1972
Traffic lights with hands.
Nevsky prospect.
Today this girl to the left is of the same age as the granny to the right…
All girls wore Bermuda skirts and there were no so many perverts. Strange!
The sign of the bus stop is wonderful! Trolleybus icon is still the same in St. Petersburg today. There was another icon of a tram – letter “T” in a circle.
Petrozavodsk, 1972
The phone box was still good but soda water machines were already trash.
Moscow, 1968
Mayakovsky square with a gorgeous retro traffic lights, illuminated signs, “passage” sign, rotating clock and trolleybus indicator.
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…can’t decide on the right thing…oh, well…1st!
Great stuff!
the ladies were doing their best to look fashionable.
It must really hurt to be agoraphobic in Russia.
Less cars = more space!
This post has been stolen and copied word from word from a famous Russian blogger. Stop stealing stuff!!!
Many things have changed since then. Like the army: the new defense minister [a civilian] ordered that all soldiers should take a one-hour nap in the afternoon and go home for the weekend.
Can you imagine this in soviet times ??
And Putin promoting last week on TV that Arbitol [flu medication with no proven effect] is a good buy.
And s0cial health-care will now be replaced by commercial care only [meaning no health care for old and poor people in general.] Now USA is more s0cial than Russia!!
The buses “Liaz” still riding in some provincial cities.
Yeah I must admit that somewhere in the recent history russian women lost their taste of good fashion. Pitty… as the girl of picture 10 (I think) proves. Perhaps there is some hope that in 30 or 40 years russian women will get theirs fashion taste back. Hopefully I will be around to see it
(and than to die an happy man 
)
Don’t be such a cry baby. I love this post. Girl in black next to granny kinda looks like someone I know. I’m not sure because I cannot get the picture to full size to actually see much of it. If that can be fixed, I would appreciate it.
Thank You.
Oh, I want to live in that year. Remindes me of Moskva slezam ne verit and S legkom parom movies. People were BETTER than that now.
whole set originally taken from Erhard K – http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/pcat/471809
translated rusin comments taken from Artemy Lebedev blog – http://tema.livejournal.com/624389.html