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Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960′s

I don’t suppose many of you are browsing Russian blogs, so I thought I’d link some interesting pictures. The source is here and here is a Google translation. I also added some related links in case you are wasting time at work.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Red Square

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Manezhnaya Square. Hotel “Moscow”

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Central Lenin Museum. State Historical Museum

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s The old building of Moscow State University

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Mayakovsky Square and monument to VV Mayakovsky

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Pushkin Square

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Kutuzovsky Prospect

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Building Museum Battle of Borodino panorama

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Swimming Pool “Moscow”. This pool was build instead of planned Palace of Soviets which was supposed to replace the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,presently restored on the same spot.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s House of Friendship with the Peoples of foreign countries

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s V.I.Lenin State Library of the USSR

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Karl Marx Prospect with the monument to Karl Marx

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Sverdlov Square. Bolshoi Theater.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Andrei Rublev Museum(formerly Andronikov Monastery)

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Planetarium

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Chkalov Street

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Komsomolskaya Square

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Monument to the worker and a farmer woman. She is holding a sickle and he has a hammer. Hammer and sickle-get it?

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Monument in honor of the Space Development

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Dzerzhinsky Square

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Moscow City’s Palace of Pioneers and schoolchildren

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Student dormitories Patrice Lumumba University.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s South-West Suburbs

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Lomonosov Prospect

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Leninsky Prospect.Public is greeting Cosmonauts returning from space.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Leninsky Prospect. Department store “Moscow”

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Borodino Battlefield

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye (XVI century)

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Highway Circling around the city.

Behind the Iron Curtain: Moscow 1960s Domodedovo Airport

  • http://www.scribblingsfromsarajevo.blogspot.com Melinda

    Very nice. I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1998. Got to see Red Square, and I loved the art in the subway. Also got to see a couple cemeteries and big farms with tiny houses on them.

  • http://willnotbetelevised.com Doc

    Cool! Thnx.

    Back in my globe trotting days all of USSR was off-limits to me. In fact I was unable to even visit the ‘western’ section of Berlin. And while I now have occasion to visit the continent now and again, I have yet to manage a visit to Russia…

    Nice to put some names with places I’ve wondered about after seeing only on film or television…

  • http://kcmeesha.com m.v.

    I will have more pictures soon. They are not mine but I think most people wouldn’t have found them any other way.