During the postwar years, there was a serious housing crisis, solved by the invention of high-rise apartments. There are about 13,000 of these standardized and prefabricated apartment block, housing the majority of Moscow’s population.
Apartments were built and partly furnished in the factory before being raised and stacked into tall columns. The popular Soviet-era comic film
Irony of Fate parodies this construction method. These rare and amazing color photos from
Pussreboots captured street scenes of Moscow in 1950.
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| "Kievskaya" Metro Station, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Evening lights, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Gorky Street (now Tverskaya Street), Moscow, 1950 |
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| Kalinin Prospekt, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Mayakovsky Square (now Triumfalnaya Square), Moscow, 1950 |
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| Monument to A. Pushkin, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Monument to A. Tolstoy, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Monument to Karl Marx, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Monument to space explorers (Museum of Cosmonautics), Moscow, 1950 |
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| Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Red Square, Moscow, 1950 |
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| South door of 13th-century Rozhdestvensky Cathedral, Moscow, 1950 |
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| St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Sunset at Moskva River, Moscow, 1950 |
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| The Kremlin, Moscow, 1950 |
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| The Noveodevichy Monastary, Moscow, 1950 |
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| Ukraina Hotel (Radisson Collection Hotel), Moscow, 1950 |
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| University on Lenin Hills (University of Moscow), Moscow, 1950 |
Probably more like 1965, by the cars and clothing styles.
ReplyDeleteTrue. The Monument to the Conquerors of Space wasn't erected until 1964. Still, it's a petty nitpick, because these are wonderfully colorful pictures.
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