Russia by Boris Mikhailov
Those are photos of Russia by Boris Mikhailov. Well, for sure these photos were not made these days, but something like 15 years ago.
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Very good pictures - most impressive seen for years!
Awesome pics.
Dont really seem as if much has changed
Really? when was your last visit? Never?
Really nice pics, I don’t know why but all this stuff about Russia fascinate me, I’m from Brazil and through this site I’ve learned a lot about your culture and how is the daily life up there… so, keep up with the good work.
yeah Russia is indeed fascinating. On this site, however, you learn nothing about Russia. And what’s worse, people think they come anything close to Russia by seeing this trash which is described unaccurate, mostly.
I have an question, have you (Mike) been to Russia? And if yes, I do not mean the tourist attractions, but real Russia like the one most tourists don’t see. Because some of the pictures/places you can see here on this site, I have seen with my own eyes. And those pictures don’t tell everything, actually the reality is more fascinating or for a person from the West, unbelievable.
Hi KBR
yes, I’ve been to Russia and many other places of eastern europe and quite off the beaten track. I’ve been travelling to the Russian countryside, I’ve been using Russian trains and elektrichkas and I’ve been to many really ’special’ places such as Pridnestrovie / Transnistria (yes, I know that this is not Russia).
Even if the pics from Englishrussia.com are not fake and would be correctly described (too often they’re not), they’d give a very biased and one-sided view of Russia. I like the site as it’s good for a laugh, and that’s it.
What’s the other side, Mike??? A world of those guys who sell gas? You must have mssed something, because this is what russia looks outside moscow and st petersburg.
better to say that people in city’s live like in west, and on countryside they live very often without electricity gas and work.
by the way everybody who has big mouth talking only ST Petersburg and Moscow offer godo living standards. Look at this site: http://gorod.dp.ua/photo/new.php?order=1&page=8&period=14
It shows pictures of dnepropetrovsk. And compare these pictures with those above. Then tell if much did change or not. And probably those pictures above are Moscow, if you’d see pictures of Dnepropetrovsk 15 years back you would see more poverty than on the ones above.
Russia is a lot like some countries of Latin America. High-rise buildings and expensive cars in rich areas of major cities, and poverty and misery in much of the rest of the country. “New Russians” business elite and corrupt politicians living in magnificent villas and “small people” being unable to buy food after having paid rent for apartment.
you’re right about that one, outside city situation has changed little the past 20 years.
Lol a reality, how do you know, I can say from the photographers style that he is trying to depict one side of events, life suffering.
It actually in reality much much worse than those pictures. If you travel to any smaller town besides Moscow get ready for real shock.
You would see drunks, foul language, urine smelling walkways, filth everywhere.
Hey mike care to direct us to a site with ‘real’ pictures?
I know the pictures here don’t show day to day life for russian now (or even russians then) but they do still show interesting glimpses of something someone once saw.
I love the images of russia on this site - in the same way i love these sort of images: http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=3373359&epmid=2&partner=Google
and this: http://www.seedetroit.com/photos/
Gorgeous photographs. I love Boris Mikhailov’s work.
Hasn’t changed a bit!
Are these pictures really from the 90’s or are they earlier then that? I feel like they could be quite a bit older, but maybe I’m wrong…
This cannot be true, the Soviet Union was never like this in all the photos I saw of it!
Loser go to Russia and look for yourself!
USA is the poorest country in world! You’re making that sort comments ALL the time. Nonsense. First this isn’t USSR its Russia begin 90’s (poorest time in the centruy for Russia). Second THIS IS 90″S !!!! Go to Russia and see for yourself that it is 2008 now!!! you stupid ignorant dumb fuck.
Did by “go to Russia and see for yourself” you mean “go to Moscow and look at those fancy cars”?
Look at everything. How people dress buildings cars, inside appartaments. In cities population exists of middle class types most in 2008! in 90’s it was a lot different.
You poor little thing, stop trying to prove yourself that you are rich or your country is reach. You live like SHIT!!! and nowdays,not in 80s or 90s, NOW!!! By the way I`m in Russia right now :-)))
rich, not reach, sorry
Why are all the people laying down on the ground…
They are drunk to deth :-))) I`ve been drunk that much too when I lived in Russia and I was young :-)))
I guess the pictures were made with “Horizont”, a panoramic camera which is so rare that I never had it in my hands:
http://www.eyescoffee.com/collectcamera/horizont/index.php
The good old days of 35 mm B/W film, developer and fixer…
These pictures are meant to show the dark, dirty, and bad sides of Russia. Granted, in those times there wasnt much good, but if you base your view of Russian life on this set then you are a fool.
Show me some nice sides of Russia, show some really happy people. Where are all the children in Moscow? Are they kept indoors out of fear? Why are so many people depressed in Moscow? Why are there so many drunk young boys and girls on the streets, so many poor older people begging in the Perekods? Why do shops, restaurants, bakeries and so on need security people? Why do people want to emigrate from the great mother Russia? Why do people laugh with the upcoming elections? Why do you keep elections when you already know the outcome?
I stopped looking at the bright side of life in Russia.
Dick you’re a dick. Go to Moscow and look for yourself. And sure there aren’t any beggars, drunks in other parts of the world.
We don’t have depressed people, if you see depressed people in Russia they have personal problems. Nobody is depressed because they think about situation in a country. Nobody walks on a street thinking: “russia is bad, russia is soo bad” all the time. And I don’t see restaurant shops etc.. with security. Only banks shopping mall and government buildigns have security, just like in any other country. We have drink a lot in summer break just like in any other country. And some people emigrate from Russia and some migrate to Russia, just like any other country.
We laugh at upcoming elections because we are glad that Medvedev a succesor of Putin is going to be elected. The west just can’t believe that a president in Russia is actually bringing Russia back to supermarcy, that’s why they make propaganda so the rest of the world gets an other view.
Is that enough answers for your brainwashed head, dick?
that dick is brainwashed. like all Americans. Americans, your government is washing your brain thru!! unlike Russians
fromukrainewithlove, ты русский(ая) шоль? а что тут делашь?
I am not as blind as you are. I know what I see. Go to Old Arbat street, to Tverskaya and visit the supermarkets, bakeries, restaurants and shops. The guy that opens the door for you is not only there to open the door for you dumb ass. These guys are related to the Russian Mob.
The same thing goes for the drunk kids in the streets, sure there are drunks in other countries and cities, but I’ve never met so many of them as in Moscow.
Sure there are beggars in other countries and cities, but it never struck you that the ones in Moscow are mostly older people who retired just before/after the fall of the Sovjet Union. Your country doesn’t want to help them, although they’ve helped the country for many years.
Maybe your Medvedev and Putin should care a bit more about the people that live in Russia instead of desperately trying to make the West believe Russia is a superpower.
How about trying to fix the roads, try to keep the intelligent people (this does not include you) inside Russia by offering them well paid challenging jobs, get rid of corruption, improve healthcare, ….
Did you ever think about why Dubai is investing so much money to change it from a dirty oil producing country to a beautiful business and tourism oriented country? Did it ever occur to you that Gas and Oil cannot be the only source of wealth for such a big country? Russia’s GNP is smaller than the GNP of the Benelux countries, although it’s a couple of 100 times bigger and has a couple of 100 times more inhabitants.
Did it ever occur to you that their is a small chance that not everything you see, is as you see it, or as you wish it is?
I love the photos with the goat, trying to drag it on a bus. We spent most of our youth worried that those high tech Russian scientists would develop some sort of super weapon and overrun our country. Only 17 years ago, wow, Russian people were the ones who paid for the arms race. So sad. Looks like some places in India with all the dirt and grime, but Indian buses are much older.
That’s what i like about Russia. We have the smartest people of the world and we have the dumbest people. We have most beautiful girls, we have most ugly grandma’s (babuchaks). We have best athletes, no negative point on this one. We beated romans/mongols/napoleon/hitler that destroyed all other european country at their times.We have most advanced weapons and space tech of the world, but we can’t even make good automobiles tv’s or even toiletpaper!
There’s no logic in our culture/history/people, we just are what god made us.
cause we made of soul, not flesh
Americans,
why you believe all that said, and shows your government. look at yourself, you do zombies with brain washed!
Russia has two sides - government and the people. And the views of those parties may not coincide.
But for some reason I have not heard of the views of the American people - you simply repeat of that tells you the Government
Whatever and whenever these pictures are from, they show one universal truth: where there is extreme poverty there is extreme despair. It would be difficult to live in such poor and neglected places and NOT be an alcoholic constantly trying to erase it all from your mind.
приезжайте ребята, мы и не такое покажем
These are fascinating–in stark contrast to the “official” photographs (read: propoganda) that made soviet Russia look so idyllic that were posted earlier.
i don’t think anyone pretended during these years that life was idyllic. official photographs showed tanks and turmoil. go back another 20 years, that was idyllic.
Wait a minute, is that a woman without legs using that board with wheels or is she just kneeling?? Looks exactly like one of the boards we used in kindergarden phys. ed
It is western media bitching about Russia and showing us as we wanna be a great super power Fucking propaganda
exactly!
Russia looks like America during the Great Depression. I am not surprise anyone who have legs are fleeing Russia.
This is Kharkiv, Ukraine. Miscelaneous photomuseum of USSR’90, dear miss. Don’t worry, creative blockbuster only.
that’s exactly what they did, 15 years ago!
You looks like 15 years old idiot scumbag
EXACTLY, WESTERN MEDIA AND US PROPAGANDA IS TO DISTROY RUSSIA BY DISTROYING RUSSIAN YOUTH. AND UNTIMATELY TAKE CONTROL OF THE WORLD, I BEG YOU RUSSIAN GUYS, DONT LET AMERICANS DISTROY YOU AND RUSSIA, COZ NOT ONLY RUSSIA NEEDS YOU, BUT THIS WORLD, PEOPLE IN IRAN LOOK TOWARDS YOU TO DEFEND THEM FROM AMERICAN BASTARDS. YOU HAVE OBLIGATION TO STAND UP AGAINST EVIL AMERICANS, AND ONLY RUSSIANS ARE CAPABLE TO DEFEAT AMERICANS NO ONE ELSE CAN. SO PLEASE SAVE THE WORLD.
is that you Borat?
Hey, Yankees! Do you see that dots in the sky? Our rockets approaching…
Well it’s kind of thematical pictures in 1 theme: the povetry. Go to any Russian city with over 200k people and you won’t see much of what in these pictures.
to fakerussian. I’m sorry dude that you live in russia and poor lol you have computer though
Well it’s kind of thematical pictures in 1 theme: the povetry. Go to any Russian city with over 200k people and you won’t see much of what in these pictures.
to fakerussian. I’m sorry dude that you live in russia and poor lol you have computer though
Hey,
i was just wondering for A level reasons,
are all these pictures actually by Boris Mikhailov? I’m researching him and i dont want to put in fake photographs
thanks,
Kat
can’t believe I once lived there and it all seemed normal to me.
What a horrifying freaking hell… f*ck that “country”.
[...] “I like it. Looks pretty realistic. That being said, I find a number of things incorrect and a bit objectionable. 1. The expression “White nights” is used in reference to the summer nights in places like St Petersburg where the sun never sets in the summertime because it is so far up north. Because of the Gulfstream (it is actually called the North Atlantic current when it reaches there), it is actually pretty warm there. 2. The line about “And if we have to perish , in mines and prisons wet . . .” refers to the tsarist labour camps before the revolution. People who ended up in the GULAG camps did not have a chance to be renown in future generations (btw, there is a spelling mistake there, it is not “reknown” but “renown”). They were not allowed any correspondence, their families were forbidden from talking about them, not that they would want to because there was a big stigma about having a family member being “an enemy of the people” as they were called. Further, the police even confiscated all the photographs of the people sent off to GULAGs, changed public records, sometimes doctored photographs to completely remove these people from history. 3. I find this a bit too sensationalistic, bordering offensive in its selectivity. Indeed, winters in Verdun are pretty ugly as well, and I am not even talking about what places like Sault St Marie look like. While it looks realistic, and reminds me of places I grew up, I think these pictures are one sided and would give the wrong impression to a foreigner. Everything is so somber and cold, one might think that there be never sunny days in Russia, take a look at this link http://englishrussia.com/?p=1960 it is not as much fun because it is not selective and sensationalistic. Here are some more pictures that focus on the weird aspects of older communist Russia - http://englishrussia.com/?p=1789″; [...]
That very much depends upon Russia itself - will there anything nice to say about Russia or no. Possibly instead of bitching around and posing as a Great Superpower, Russia should one day try to become civilized country other people would be happy to have contact with.
I am Russian and I must confess that I am proud of the drinking culture, it’s so amaizing, nothing can be better then getting wasted, common, we are all going to die sooner or later anyway.
your way of thinking is developed by west propaganda. west propaganda existst in every country of the world. Espaccialy in Russia the west uses propaganda just like orange revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine. Most people in other country’s than the west love Russia and everything about it, and hate USA. Of course Russia has bad sides, corruption and crime has become a part of our culture. Just like imprealism and racism has become a part of US culture.
When USSR existed all people hated the communistic empire of evil. Now communism is gone and everybody hates corrupted human rights violating Russia.
Don’t you think there is at least some propaganda in the game?? USA president is always know from before, 9/11 was a set up. Iraq and Afghanistan….well think for yourself. I can give a fine example. Everybody knows movie Rambo. In cold war Rambo was in Afghanistan and the russians were the bad guys, while afghans were the good guys in the war. Now new movie of Rambo has come out, all of a sudden Afghans are the abd guys. You know USA sponsered US movies that maked USSR look bad? You know USA tested nuclear bomb on native american village’s in 60’s? You didn’t? what a big suprise.