Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #429
Vladimir Mayakovsky Monument, Moscow USSR c. 1968 -- Daily LIFT #429 On snow-covered lands and on stubbly fields, in smoky plants and on...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 20211 min read
Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966
Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...
Michael Laxer
Apr 1, 20214 min read
15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City
With two bonus views. Text translated from the Russian. The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent and storied port in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20214 min read
The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line
Photos via Soviet Union Today, You Tube and public domain. In 1965 the production of the Soviet ocean liner the MS Aleksandr Pushkin was...
Michael Laxer
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #421
1965 advertisement for a 16 day trip from Canada to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #421 Organized by the Canada-USSR Association in Toronto, the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #419
Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #409
The Barrow of Glory, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #409 Located 21 kilometers outside of Minsk on the Moscow Highway, the Barrow of Glory was...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20212 min read
The Fairy Tale Cafes of the USSR -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
with the Nikstukas Cocktail and Potato Horns The photo above is of the Solnyshko (Baby Sun) Café in the far northern Soviet city of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #50 Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Soviet Pioneers event, 1930
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 Mass Soviet Pioneers rally, 1930 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 A large event of the Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #408
Space Will Serve People, Gagarin poster, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #408 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born March 9, 1934. A...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, born March 9, 1934
"Having rounded the Earth in a satellite spaceship, I have seen how beautiful our planet is. Let us preserve and multiply this beauty,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #407
Internationalism, Peace & Justice! -- Daily LIFT #407 International Women's Day Poster Lithuanian SSR, c. 1985
Michael Laxer
Mar 7, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #406
The Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #406
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20211 min read
Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 New tram...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Soviet Kaluga 1974 -- Images of the city of Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #403
International Workers' Day festivities, V.I. Lenin Square, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #403
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #401
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Clara Zetkin at the Third All-Russia Conference on Preschool Education, Moscow, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #401 Zetkin,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #40 The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read
"We are for the collective farm!"
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 "We are for the collective farm!" -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 The farmers of the village of...
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