A gallery of some of rare and amazing color photographs of Moscow in the 1930s
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| The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Kamenny Most |
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| The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most |
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| The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most |
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| The Mosvkoretskaya street and the Vasilevsky spusk from the Moskvoretsky bridge |
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| Kremlin, Granovitaya Palace |
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| Kremlin, the Blagoveschensky (Annunciation) cathedra |
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| The Great Ivan bell tower |
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| The Red Square |
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| The GUM supermarket |
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| Resurrection or Iversky gate (destroyed in 1931) |
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| Sverdlov (Theatre) square |
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| Teatralny proezd towards the Lubyanka |
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| The CUM supermarket |
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| The Second Moscow Art Theatre (then Central Children’s Theatre) |
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| TORGSIN, the “foreign currency” shop for foreigners (1931-36) |
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| Ohotny Ryad street |
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| The Soviet square |
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| Agitation poster for the five years plan on the Soviet square |
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| Soviet square, Lenin Institute |
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| Strastnaya square (where the giant lion was sleeping) |
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| Tversky square, with the still standing New Triumphal Gate |
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| The Christ Savior cathedral, blown up in 1931 |
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| The Christ Savior cathedral |
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| The Novodevichi monastery |
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| The Pyatnitsa street with the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa church (destroyed in 1935) |
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| The Resurrection of Christ church in SokolnikiA szokolnyiki Krisztus Feltámadása-templom |
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| Tower of the Church of St. Pantelemon of Athos |
So lovely, massive fan of magic lantern slides, such a doorway to history! Han x
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing such a beautiful pictures !! Moscow is great place for visiting. I went there when I was of 10 year old only. After that, I shifted in London (United Kingdom).
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