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A woman holds her cat dressed in the traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse Vyshyvanka, while hundreds join the “Vyshyvankas March” in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 27 May, 2017. Ukrainians wear these traditional clothes called Vyshyvankas during an annual march meant to popularize Ukrainian ethnic traditions and culture. [Full gallery]

May. Snow. Moscow.

Photograph: Martin Cleaver/AP

19-year old Matthias Rust lands his small airplane in Red Square, Moscow, on December 7, 1987. The German teenager slipped through one of the largest air defense systems in the world to make a statement against the militarism of the Cold War.

Mariya Ivanivna Dolina (1922 – 2010) was a Soviet pilot, deputy and acting squadron commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Regiment.

Map of the Moscow Metro named after V. I. Lenin. 1980.

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR (1960s).

Yevgeny Kassin’s Summer Rain, Moscow, 1960s (via here)

USSR. Moscow. 1977 - 1978

Soviet milk in the tetrahedron packing.

Happy New Year, Comrades!

USSR Ice Cream

Snow

Now-demolished 26 Commissars Memorial, Baku (via here)

Construction of the sarcaphugus at Chernobyl

Liubov Popova’s textile design, 1920s (via here)