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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2h

Zurab Shalamberidze takes a photo of his wife Vera at the Stalin Museum in Gori, 2015. Photograph: Andrew North

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 19h

Armed soldiers carry a banner reading 'Communism', Nikolskaya street, Moscow, October 1917

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 20h

On this day in 1970 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet-Russian novelist, sparking considerable controversy at the time.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 21h

Nonconformist youth, USSR, 1987

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 1d

Technology for the Youth, issue 1, 1964, illustration by S. Lefterev for the article ‘Morning in the “Astrocity”’, depicting a futuristic scenario of space transportation within a cosmodrome.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 1d

Portrait of V.I. Lenin. Amber panel from 1985

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d

Playing chess on the ship "Gruziya" (Georgia), 1958. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d

Lenin and Gorky in Gorki - Painting by M.M. Bozhy (1953)

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 3d

“Come and See” is a 1985 Soviet epic historical anti-war tragedy directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. It depicts the historical reality without embellishment and is recognized worldwide as one of the most important films about the war.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 3d

Soviet prisoner of war in Rovaniemi, Finland, 1940. Colorized by Joel Bellviure

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 4d

Preparations in 1972 in the Red Square to mark the 55th anniversary of the Russian revolution. Photo: Peter Phipp

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 4d

“Learn from the Soviet Union, advance toward the world level of science.” - Chinese Poster (1958)

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 5d

25 years since the destruction of the fascist troops at Moscow (Soviet poster, 1966)

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 5d

Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (2 March 1894 – 21 April 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 5d

The Moldavian folk dance "Moldavanescu" is performed by the ensemble of students of the vocational school of the city of Chisinau. Moldavian SSR, June 1960. Photo by Alexander Nevezhin

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 6d

Local civil defense team training at the Baku oil field. Azerbaijan SSR, 1939. Photo by Anatoly Garanin

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 6d

"Cuba", painting by B.N. Lebedev, 1982. Inscription on the painting: "Revolutionary ideas are marching forward along the path opened by the October Revolution!", 1982

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 7d

Council of People's Commissars of the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic. In the center sits the leader of the republic Mirza Kuchik Khan. 1920

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 7d

Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen is a japanese puzzle video game developed in 1991.
In the game, the player assembles water pipe segments for a pipeline from Moscow to Tokyo in order to strengthen Japan–Soviet Union relations.