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Soviet women of the 1970s (PHOTOS)

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RUSSIA BEYOND
Yaroslavl State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve; Yuri Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF
It was a decade of economic stagnation under Brezhnev, yet life for ordinary Soviet people was in full swing. Women found time for stylish high hairdos and even got hold of fashionable coats from somewhere.
Woman with kitten
Yuri Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF

Fashionista
MAMM/MDF

Fashion models
MAMM/MDF

Women
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

Woman on the factory floor
Yuri Sadovnikov/MAMM/MDF

Trolleybus drivers 
Mikhail Savin/MAMM/MDF

Tourists in Transcarpathia
Vladimir Karlov/Archive of Vladimir Karlov

Valentina Tereshkova at an exhibition of Soviet space technology
Yaroslavl State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve

A concert
Archive of Olga Kukhar

A portrait of a woman
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

“Glory to the mother, raiser of children, tireless laborer at work and at home!”
Vasily Shumkov/MAMM/MDF

Village get-together
Alexander Abaza/MAMM/MDF

To the beach
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

"Furniture-70” exhibition fair in Rostov-on-Don
R. Ivanov

Feast
Unknown author/Archive of Olga Kukhar

Hairstyle competition
Alexander Steshanov/MAMM/MDF

"Replenishment"
A. Belova/Archive of Olga Shitova-Belova

Actresses Iya Savvina and Elena Koreneva on the set of the film 'Romance for Lovers'
Evgeny Umnov/MAMM/MDF

Accounting team of the Domodedovo Consumers’ Cooperative
Photo from the archive of Olga Zhokina

In Anapa
Archive of Vladimir Druzhinin

In the Summer Garden, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Rafail Mazelev/Archive of Alexander Odinokov

Meeting of members of the “Combat Friends” women’s club
Mikhail Petrov/State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals

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