50 Interesting Vintage Color Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Moscow in 1975

By the early 1970s, the Soviet Union was at the peak of its power. The Communist Party remained the sole political force in the Soviet Union, but decades of post-Stalinist economic reforms left the Soviet empire with a seemingly robust economy and an increased standard of living for Soviet citizens.

Here's a series of 50 color photographs of Soviet Moscow taken by German photographer Hans Rudolf Uthoff in 1975.