
Everyday life of Moscow ladies through the camera glass of Lisa Larsen, August – September, 1956.


Women working at the stadium


Greenhouse worker


Three young ladies eating

Women at the store

Cooking

Street workers


At the plant

A girl from a department store

Elderly lady with a girl in a shop

Flower women

Family at home

A girl in a library

Woman and her daughter in a restaurant

Woman at the store

Sportswoman Galina Vinogradova is making breakfast in a kitchen

Galina Vinogradova studies for a medic

Sportswoman Nina Dumbadze

Sportswoman Galina Zybina

Galina Zybina rests at home

Russian swimmers

Education and social welfare minister (?)

Director of a tabacco processing plant

Russian actress Irina Skobtseva

Director of a maternity hospital

Serious faces during a social insurance committee meeting

Two girls are singing in a kindergarten

Dancing girl

A young lady and a guy in a boat

The girl enjoying the puppet theatre performance

Singing pioneers

Two pioneers

Four pregnant women came to a doctor

Working girls

Girl posing before a camera

September 1956, at the hairdresser’s

Woman being done nails

Being pedicured

Having her hair waved

Pilling procedure


Buying vegetables in a market



Buying ice-cream

At a GUM shopwindow

GUM (department store)

Gorky park
Location: Moscow
via humus


Oh, my!! The socialist factory worker in the 1st two pics or the studious reader in the library (reading Bakunin?!)? I’m hopelessly in love!!!
Or maybe just hopeless?
Those photographs are great. Even seeing the varying fashions (nice hair girls!) is really interesting, from old generations to new, and in different social classes and jobs. Awesome post.
Cabbot is 100% right!