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Soviet saleswoman, by Daniel Biskup, 1988.
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The Mask of Sorrow is a 15- meter -tall monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of mass repressions in the Soviet Union, who were placed in the Gulag labor camps in Kolyma.
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Hotel Pervomayskaya [First-of-May] in Ryazan (Russia, 1970s).
Soviet Capsule, You Only Live Twice (1967)
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Yak 36, a Soviet VTOL demonstrator.
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The Kamov Sever-2, just a GAZ M20 body with skis and an Ivchenko AI-14 airplane engine strapped to the chassis. The Sever-2 was designed by helicopter engineer Nikolai Ilyich Kamov to exacting requirements laid out by the Ministry of Communications, not unlike the process for building a new postal truck here in the States — which, of course, means that the project appears to have worked out about as well as postal trucks here in the States.
Source: jalopnik.com
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Soviet "Zaamurets" armored train.
Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut Commercial
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Neon lights in the Soviet Union
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Former Ministry of Highways, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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‘Flying saucer’ gas stations in Kyiv from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Size comparison between the International Space Station and older Soviet and American stations, with the Space Shuttle as a point of reference.
Soviet underground nuclear test 1965
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Lights of the Nevsky Prospect. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Leningrad, 1978).
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A column of Soviet heavy IS-2 tanks on the streets of Berlin, 1945