Back in 1958, American photographer Howard Sochurek went on a voyage from Moscow to Astrakhan. During his trip, he took pictures of everyday life of the people which makes his ‘Volga River Essay’ specially interesting and valuable.
Embarkment.
The riverside station.
These boats were designed specially for the canal.
A bell tower in the city of Kalyazin, the Tver Region.
Amazing quality pics! And interesting photo document of these times.
Great photos. I see that women in the Soviet Union were wearing two-piece bathing suits in the 50s. In the U.S. at that time, a two-piece bathing suit was considered quite risque.
Judging by these pictures, the men probably wished they didn’t wear the two piece bathing suits
The boom years of Soviet socialism. Good health, high standard of living; the best of times in economics, in society, in science, in education during the 20th century.
Unless you were in the gulag for thought crime. Then it sucked.
Beautiful country. I take it the bell tower was originally on dry land which was later flooded, right?
Yes, it was Mologa town, destroyed in 1935 with the construction of Rybins Reservior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybinsk_Reservoir