The Two. Kiyevsky train station. Photo by Mikhail Trakhman (Moscow, 1960s).

The only picture of the Venusian surface taken by the Soviet Venera Probe in 1981.

Experimental Soviet architecture: Apartment buildings in Minsk, Belarus, built in 1982.

Control rooms, power stations, control panels—Soviet era mostly, and a few more modern ones.

Summer 1968, Moscow region

On the occasion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday, enjoy this clip from the 1985 Soviet TV adaptation of “The Hobbit.”

Афганская война

In 1988, the final history exams for more than 53 million Soviet school children were canceled because the government concluded that much of the history they had been taught was lies.

Chess players in Gorky Park. Photo by Igor Stomakhin (October 21, 1987, Moscow).

До первой крови / Until First Blood (1989)

Russian Winter.

by Dmitry Shafrow

Lenin, Langston Hughes.

“Where would we be without miracles?”

Морозко / Frosty (1964) dir. by Alexander Rou.

Soviet Alternative Space Program by Alex Orlove

Nikolai Yeryshev "Self-portrait in the all-service protective gear ”. 1978  Николай Ерышев “Автопортрет в ОЗК”. 1978

“The first picture looks at you, the second one looks through you.”

Soviet artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev before and after he went to war. These photographs were taken just 4 years apart.

Engagement XIX.

Anomalous field located in Pripyat, Ukraine.

i learned that between 1967 and 1991 the USSR produced thousands of TV ads for non-existent products (x)