Soviet-Era Pictures

Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942

"Snowdrops" by Libert Feigin (1964)

In the design bureau of the LiAZ bus plant (Likino-Dulyovo, USSR, 1974)

Environmental protection poster from the Lithuanian SSR, mid-1970's

Chernobyl disaster occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR, USSR.

Somewhere in the post-Soviet region where the Siberian language is used, for example Omsk. The inscription on the automobile is Fruits. Photo by Seryozha Udovichenko

Six-grader Yura Nikonychev in a reading hall of the Lenin State Library (Moscow, 1962).

Inside a Moscow—Leningrad express train. Photo by David Taylor (1976).

Soviet New Year tree lights, 1960s.