22 أكتوبر 2014

Monument to Taras Shevchenko

Verse in Vision: The Life and Art of Taras Shevchenko
National Photo Archive of Ukrainian Cities
Park named after Taras Shevchenko
For she is, the only that we have, all singing and ringing, all weeping and rumbling, and yet without the laurel wreath

House Workers Unions

Archive photos of Moscow of the 1920s 

Vist Arkaweet



زور اركويت أول دعاية سياحية فى السودان
 1st Sudanese Tourism Advert 60's    

Socialist economics 1930s

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA
Throw away kulaks from your way

Petka, Mitya and Chamberlain. 1927

ANATOLY PAVLOVICH BELSKY

History

Mc Donalds Opening in Moscow, Soviet Union 1990 HD
Moscow, McDonald's, good morning

So kindly responded to my call on the other end
- Good morning - I had to change the prepared state-owned start a business conversation. - Can I talk to the director
- Sorry, but Marina A. is only half an hour, call back, please
- Thank you so much - I do not know how I was awarded my gratitude dimensionless epithet and thought: "But still nice when a you are so friendly, just call me at least once

Perhaps my logic is familiar to those who loves to be in the "McDonald's". After all, since the opening of the restaurant took more than six months: a curious time to try all the dishes, foodies make sure that nothing special about them. And, it seems, would have long time to turn to fall, and even disappear altogether. But a well-known throughout the world as a snack, "McDonald's" with Pushkin remains a place of pilgrimage. And not that we are gluttons, and not so adore overseas lush sandwich to every day to fill one of the longest queues. The fact that the last policeman, selflessly performing their duty under the onslaught of tantalizing smells, the world begins as unusual for us ordinary service

- How strange that you are smiling, and so many young, - refers to the alien girl in a red visor, which performs its order

Strange tourists, of course, not because at home nobody smiles, but because she has probably had the good fortune to talk with our angry, early aging saleswomen

And to us, madam, how all of this is surprising and incomprehensible. Starting with clean tables and ending with the inscription on the icon for each employee: "How can I help you

recipe book beautiful food McDonalds.  Opening

AD

Vintage ads: 181 Posts
Beautiful Vintage Opel Ads

21 أكتوبر 2014

19 أكتوبر 2014

التنورة القصيرة

Andy Stewart - The key to true happiness is knowing what well make you happy and how to obtain it

Cowboys & Western Life

C.H.Long aka Malboro Man, 1949
curly wolves’ are cuttin
A Story of Round-Up

18 أكتوبر 2014

Turksib - Update

Eyes on Central Asia - Turksib
Very Rare - 1929 Turksib - History - Muslims of the Silk Road

Ogonek 1982

Document: Ogonyok No.19,6th May 1928 page 5
Translation
One and a half months ago I gave up smoking and I promise to smoke no more
N.I. Bukharin, 18 April 1928, Moscow.
THE COVER of this edition of Ogonek depicts a well-groomed woman conversing with a peasant.  It deals with one of the daunting problems facing the country in the 1920s and 30s.  Underneath is a message from N. Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow

 Every literate person, teach an illiterate one!”  If you can’t teach one yourself, if you don’t have time – then take charge of an illiterate and pay the cost of his lessons so he can have an alphabet book, paper, pencils, so his education can be followed all the way through.  We need every communist, komsomol and pioneer to be able to say, ‘Petr Petrovich Petrov was illiterate, I took charge of him and now he is literate, his address is such-and-such.  You can check the facts’.  That’s what every Party member, komsomol, every literate member of the ODN*, every literate trade-unionist, every literate Red Army soldier should do.”

*Oбщество «Долой неграмотность» The Down with Illiteracy Society, a USSR voluntary organisation that from 1923 to 1936 taught over 5 million people, mostly 
peasants, to read and write

Some Life-Changing Advice

A Personality Study

CONSTRUCTION

USSR IN CONSTRUCTION
All Links 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

People of All Nations

A photo from 'People of All Nations', by J. A. Hammerton, c.1920*

Project

If I sit Silently , I have sinned
The Mossadegh Project 1951
Scotland: Edinburgh University Students Nominate Mossadegh For Rectorate Position October 1951

KIDS


PHOTO - SHEET
Is a visual reflection of the past and present, interesting stories from history Moscow and other cities, fascinating facts about the lives of famous people (actors, dancers, photographers) and much more

Worker of Art

Gallery of Heroes

Art of Revolutions

propaganda posters
Don’t count on eating somebody else’s loaf 1962

SO WE LIVED


Vladimir Lagrange
project 70 years of Russian history in faces

Conflict

الصراع - باردين مخرج الرسوم المتحركة السوفيتية – تدور الفكرة ان الصراع يبدأ بشئ تافه واحتراق الكل بالنهاية
Conflict Garri Bardin - Soviet Animation

«Vologda»


Where is my dark-eyed girl, where is she, In Volodga-lodga-dga
In Vologda there, In the house with the carved palisade

Pesniary 1 , 2 , 3

PostCard

Moscow postcards

Waste Land

قصيدة بصرية حول طبيعة زائلة الحياة
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Poetry on Maiakovskii Square

The Parabolic Ballad by Andrei Voznesensky
My life, like a rocket, makes a parabola
flying in darkness, -- no rainbow for traveler
AntiWorlds & The Fifth Ace

RETRO

Back to back

St. Petersburg
At a time machine in the XIX century
 

13 أكتوبر 2014

Socialist Realism 50s in Color

Part 1 : socialist realism 50s in color
film by Alexei Firsov
All photos were taken by Simon Osipovich Fridlyand
(1905-1964) - Soviet photographer and journalist

Part 2 : The USSR in the 1950's: The photographs of Semyon O. Friedland
Here I present the photographs of The Soviet Union taken during the 1950's by the photojournalist Semyon Osipovich Friedland . Though many are "stage set", they still convey a fascinating insight into post-war Russia