Everyday life in Soviet Moscow by Vladimir Bogdanov (PHOTOS) SEP 11, 2021 RUSSIA BEYOND
This famous Soviet photographer managed to capture life in the capital as it really was once - quiet, cozy courtyards, children playing on the street, elderly people going about their day and the most everyday situations you could think of. What’s special about them is the fantastic warmth they exude!
In an old courtyard, 1970s Dzerzhinsky Square (‘Lubyanka Square’ today), 1970s Kosoy Lane, 1972 ‘Filipok’ [a character of a Leo Tolstoy children’s tale], 1970s Ladies walking their dogs, 1970s ‘Sokolniki’ park, 1974 Curiosity (Muscovites inspecting an American ‘Mercury’ car) 1975 Dolly (A father and daughter strolling), 1976 Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 1978 ‘Such is the job’ (A babushka sweeping the sidewalk on Pyatnitskaya Street), 1980s ‘Moscow of the Old’, Khokhlovsky Lane, 1980s Ice cream man working on Gorky Street (Tverskaya Street, today), 1980s Latest News (Babushkas chit chatting on a bench), 1980s Inside a house on Sretensky Boulevard, 1982 ‘Walking distance from the Kremlin’. Kiselny Close, 1982 ‘Always onwards!’ (Kids walking a dog), 1983 Sretenka Street, 1983 The guard of honor at the Eternal Flame, Aleksandrovsky Sad, 1988 Youth on May 1, a celebration of peace and labor, 1988 Sretensky Boulevard, 1989 “They’ve turned off the water again!” (Residents cope with a burst water pipe) 1990 A line in front of a newly opened store on Gertsena Street (Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, today), 1990 School kids enjoying recess, 1990 The Red Square, 1990s ‘Based on the works of Degas’ (Ballerinas preparing), 1990s Arbat Street, 1990 A pile of trash, 1991 Strastnoy Boulevard, 1991