People And Cities Of Soviet Russia In Postcards: 1970-1985

When there were no computers and the Internet and Soviet people could only dream of traveling they collected books and postcards with images of remote cities and countries to examine them in their free time.

Ryazan, Circus, 1987.

Ryazan, Moscow Cinema.

Ryazan, Agricultural College.

Ryazan, Central Universal Store.

Voronezh, Monument To Pilots-Heroes.

Children’s Park in Voronezh.

Circus,Voronezh.

Water Reservoir,Voronezh.

Tula, Krasnoarmeyskiy Prospect.

Tula, Pervomaiskaya Street.

Yaroslavl, Railway Station.

Monument to Lenin.

Kostroma, Vasiliy Chapaev motorship is at the deck.

Kostroma,the new building is occupied by City Committee of the Communist Party.

Kostroma, Museum of Wooden Art. The church in the middle burnt to ashed in 2002.

Kazan, Bauman Street.

Kazan, Tatarstan Hotel.

Kazan, Square of Freedom.

Kazan, a port on the bank of the river.

Almetyevsk, Tatarstan Cinema.

Naberezhnye Chelny, construction of KAMAZ factory.

Naberezhnye Chelny, Street of Hydro-Constructors.

Nizhnekamsk, Builders’ Prospect.

Astrakhan, Summer Cinema COSMOS and CRYSTAL trade center.

Astrakhan. The Volga. Klement Gottwald motorship.

Astrakhan, Young Theater.

Astrakhan, dockyard and cellulose plant.

Astrakhan, a floating drilling unit and tankers on the Volga river.

Astrakhan, a floting fishing plant and gifts of the sea.

High water. Drying out Caspian roach.

Astrakhan watermelons.

The Astrakhan region, rice collection.

Omsk, Airport.

Highly developed industry in Novgorod.

Tvsets SADKO made in Novgorod are famous throughout the country.

And studio devices.

Inhabitants of Novgorod love going in for sports.

They don’t forget about folk craft.

They are proud of their industrial enterprise AZOT and chemical treatment of seeds.

Leningrad, Nevskiy Prospect.

The House of Books.

Smolnyi, Leningrad.

The cruiser Aurora and Leningrad Hotel.

Pribaltiyskaya Hotel.

Sea port.

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5 thoughts on “People And Cities Of Soviet Russia In Postcards: 1970-1985”

  1. Did lawnmowers and weedeaters just not exist is Soviet times? The nice parks seem to always have tall grass and it makes them look not as nice as they are today.

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