Michael Laxer
USSR Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair
In 1958 the Belgian city of Brussels hosted the World's Fair. The USSR had what was by all accounts a spectacular pavilion from the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #770
USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #769
"May 1: Glory to the Great Soviet Union, the Standard Bearer of Peace!", poster USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #769
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #768
Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 2, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #767
Youth, Alexei Tertyshnikov and Igor Kravtsov, USSR 1962 -- Daily LIFT #767
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20222 min read
"Yes, I am Alive! And I Shall Live Forever!" -- Lesya Ukrainka, revolutionary poet and writer
Triumphant and solemn, the flash of predawn light Has pierced through the gloom of the night Still asleep are the rays of the sun --...
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20224 min read
Nakhodka: Visiting the Soviet Far East Port City, 1976
For most of its history the area of the city of Nakhodka was a small set of towns on the Pacific coast of the Russian and then Soviet Far...
Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #762
B. B. King in the USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #762 King toured the USSR in 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #760
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, July 22 1932 -- Daily LIFT #760 The photographer, Mikhail Ozersky, in 1963 wrote of the photo that was taken on...
Michael Laxer
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #759
Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...
Michael Laxer
Jul 7, 20223 min read
Soviet North Ossetian Republic founded, July 7, 1924
Stamp honouring the North Ossetian ASSR, USSR 1960 On July 7, 1924. The North Ossetian Republic was founded in the USSR. In 1936 it...
Michael Laxer
Jul 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #748
March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #748
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #747
New tractor is delivered to a collective farm, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, spring 1939 -- Daily LIFT #747 The rapid industrialization of the...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Minsk liberated, July 3, 1944
Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...
Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #746
Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...
Michael Laxer
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #744
To the Eternal Memory of Those Soviet People Who Gave Their Lives in the Struggle Against Fascism, dedication page of a history of the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #738
Cover of the English language edition of a Lenin biography published by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #738 A...
Michael Laxer
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #735
A Spanish Republican soldier in Moscow to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, November 7, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #735...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #734
Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Jun 7, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #727
Karl Marx Statue on Karl Marx Avenue, Kaliningrad USSR c. 1980 -- Daily LIFT #727
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