The Soviet Lookbok
This is the example of what Soviet Russian citizens could order by mail from their state - the only vendor in the country. It’s no surprise that literary EVERY house in the country had something from those items.
First McDonalds Rest in Russia, 20 Years Ago
Around 20 years ago McDonalds got a permission from the Communist Party of Soviet Union to open its first rest in Soviet Russia. It was not only the first McDonalds but generally the first fast food place in Russia ever. People from all over the Russia when visiting Moscow wanted to visit this “pearl of the capitalism” so there were literary a few mile long lines of the visitors to this place.
USSR at the End of 80s
We continue to publish historical series of photos showing life of Soviet people in different decades of the USSR times. For this once here comes the pictures of Russian streets at the end of 80s.
Pepsi first time in the USSR on the picture above.
See also:
Moscow Hotel “Russia”, Nowadays
Moscow at 80-s.
Moscow in the 60-s and 70-s
Moscow 1967
Moscow Decorated For Soviet Holidays, 1932
Moscow 1927
Prophetic Postcards Back From 1914
Moscow Flood at 1908
Moscow 1890
Moscow Now and Then
Moscow. The Past and the Present
USSR in the 70-s, part 1
USSR in the 70-s, part 2
USSR in the 70-s, part 3
USSR in the 60-s
USSR in the 60-s
Photos From Soviet Russia
A Soviet Shelter
This is a shelter back from the Soviet Era and Cold War when every house had a shelter nearby in case of America attacking. Most of the things there are 20-30 years old, including the batteries, lamps etc. The glass retorts with different chemicals were used for testing the air on the surface and determining the type of attack - different chemicals indicated different type of attack: nuclear, chemical, biochemical etc.
Russian Pilot in Afghanistan
In late 70s Russian army entered Afghanistan, thousands soldiers, hundreds tanks and helicopters, etc.
These are photos from Afghanistan of one of the Russian helicopter pilots.
Soviet Era Photo Chronicles
Our visitor Alex has submitted 119 photos of Soviet Era Russia from his collection. He wanted to post it at the “Submissions” section of our newly opened English Russia forum, where people already post some entertainment stuff from Russia, but decided to send all at once.
That’s a long series!
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Moscow at 80s
Moscow back from 80s.
Just a few years and life would change drastically, people would meet capitalism at its best.
Abramovich in 80s
That’s a photo of Roman Abramovich, the richest Russian, in 80s.
Oh by the way he is now second Russian richest one.
First Russian CD
These are photos of first Russian CD.
In Russia common people didn’t have cd players untill mid 90s, so in later 80s there were no Russian music discs at all.
This was the first one produced by Russian music company “Melodia”. You can read the contents on the pictures - it was both on English and Russian language because it was mainly for export - nobody in Russia was in need of cd’s.
Photos by Gyuri from Hungary.
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Zemlyane
Another Russian music video.
That was a cult Soviet song, from early 80s, about flight to space. It was very popular at that time. Band name is “Zemlyane”.
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