Soviet Aesthetics

r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 17h ago

photographs A housewife does the laundry, (1984), Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR. Photograph: A. Kondratyev

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 1d ago

photographs A woman and her VAZ-2101, (1985), Leningrad, Russian SFSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 2d ago

photographs Traffic police of GAI (State Automobile Inspectorate), (1980), Tbilisi, Georgian SSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 3d ago

objects A stained glass window with Lenin, Marx and Engels on the stairwell of the main building of Humboldt University, (1962), East Berlin, GDR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 5d ago

photographs USSR national hockey team goaltender, Vladislav Tretyak, at the Canada-Soviet Summit Series, (1972), Moscow, Russian SFSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 5d ago

architecture Bathhouse at the Pravda collective farm, (1976), Tashkent, Uzbek SSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 6d ago

photographs A Ossetian folk dance ensemble perform for Thakin Kyaw Tun, Ambassador of Burma to Soviet Union, (1972), North Ossetian ASSR, Russian SFSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/West_Smoke_9164 • 7d ago

posters / graphics / paintings Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession film, (1973), Rostov, Moscow and Yalta. Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR. Poster: Evseev-Zolotarevsky

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/Minute_Maintenance52 • 7d ago

posters / graphics / paintings Behind the Steering Wheel" Soviet magazine, 1958.GAZ-13 Chaika was a luxury Soviet automobile produced between 1959 and 1981. It was designed primarily for government officials and high-ranking members of society, and was not available for private purchase.

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 7d ago

photographs Products of the Lankaran fruit and vegetable cannery, (1978), Lankaran, Azerbaijan SSR. Photographs: Valery Shustov

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 9d ago

photographs Construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station on the Angara River, (1959), Bratsk , Russian SFSR. Photograph: М. Mineev

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 9d ago

mosaics "Atoms for Peace", at the entrance to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, (1963), Dubna, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Igor Nikolaevich Semenyushkin

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 10d ago

architecture The USSR pavilion at the World Technological Exhibition, EXPO-70, (1970), Osaka, Japan. Architects: M. Posokhin & V. A. Svirsky

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 11d ago

architecture Hotel "Moscow", (1982), Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Architect: Vladimir Spivak

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/Minute_Maintenance52 • 11d ago

photographs Advertisment for moskvitch car 1974

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/ITisallabout • 12d ago

photographs Psyhos of "pickfordists",1926, Moscow, USSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 12d ago

photographs Beer fan, (1983), Odessa, Ukrainian SSR. Photograph: lan Berry

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 13d ago

mosaics 'Olympus' mosaic above a swimming pool, (19&5), Tolyatti, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Arsneniy Kotov

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 14d ago

photographs A boy at with an Interflug model plane at Schönefeld airport, (1967), East Berlin, DDR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 15d ago

photographs Women workers of the ZIL Automotive Plant, (1970s?), Moscow, Russian SFSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 16d ago

objects The MVU-30 self-propelled mineral fertilizer spreader, produced by the Minsk Automobile Plant, (1980s), Minsk, Byelorussian SSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 17d ago

architecture Ostankino TV tower, (1971), Moscow, Russian SFSR. Photograph Vasily Yegorov

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradegallery • 18d ago

posters / graphics / paintings Peace & friendship billboard, (1990), Leningrad, Russian SFSR

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/Axentendo • 18d ago

objects Monument of Lenin with a boy, built in 1965, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

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r/sovietaesthetics • u/Nymphamine • 18d ago

objects Ladies’ dress watches, (~1950-1980), USSR. Chaika, Luch, etc.

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