Video: USSR: a huge archive of previously unknown color photos
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 19:48
The most ambitious and completely unexplored layer of archival photographs of the USSR was discovered, taken by the professor of the University of Virginia (1949-1991, USA) Thomas Hammond over a couple of decades - from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.
Hammond visited Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yaroslavl, Riga, Samarkand, Pyatigorsk and several other cities. And what other foreigners, as well as all the inhabitants of the USSR, for various reasons did not shoot, got into his lens.
Armature sledges, an explanatory note on the shooting of the bridge in Riga, "Lenin is still more alive than all living things", the Tikhvin temple on Alekseevskaya, similar to the painting of the Renaissance, ordinary passers-by, street trading, passenger trucks, household details.
It is this, as well as the fact that the pictures are in color, are of particular value to us today.
- 2885 slides with a total weight of 9, 5 GB.
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