Women pick flowers during a hike in the Issyk-Kul mountains, (1981), Kyrgyz SSR. Photograph: Mamadaliev
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Twin sisters Saltanat and Mahabad Iskakova - students at the medical school in the city of Frunze (August 1, 1974), Kyrgyz SSR. Photographer: Dronov / RIA News
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Ulyanovsk-Mount Elbrus motor rally. The cars rose to a height of 4,200 meters, (1974), Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR
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An electrical goods store, (1980), Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
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Soviet Cold War Propaganda from the 1960s.
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Mirvari Café, (1962), Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. Architects: V. Shulgin & R. Sharifov
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Physical Fitness Culture Parade in post-war Stalingrad (May 1945), Russian SFSR
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A Moskvitch 2140 in-front of Cosmos Hotel, (1980), Moscow, Russian SFSR
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The Soviet team celebrate after winning gold at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, (1989), Anchorage, Alaska, United States
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Residential Buildings Republic Square, (1978), Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR. Architects: Y. Tumanyan, & R. Khalfin
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An Antonov An-2T is unloaded, (1986), Kyzyl-Dzhar, Kyrgyz SSR. Photograph: Yuri Doroshenko
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Yunost Sport Palace, (1975), Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR
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The Cosmos Pavilion at VDNKh, (1973), Moscow, Russian SFSR
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"Lenin and Giacometti", (1980), Russian SFSR. Artist: Leonid Sokov
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Delivery of tires for BelAZ heavy transport equipment, (1970s), Minsk, Byelorussian SSR
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Bread vending machine in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), 1969
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Lenin Statue - Khujand, Tajikistan 🇹🇯
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Soviet fighter pilot cemetery.
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The district of the Soviet times apartment houses
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Soviet elementary school student, 1986
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A Soviet Lighter
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An old Soviet era radar system
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The insignia of the Soviet nuclear program. (seriously)
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Standoff between American and Soviet tanks at checkpoint Charlie
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Soviet vehicles used during the Chernobyl disaster
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