A look at the amazing Soviet workers' health resorts in the Crimea in 1949. Expropriated from the Russian wealthy and nobility after the Revolution. Run by and for the people. Sun and Sea Aid Crimean Resorts To Cure, Rest Workers By Valentine Antonov, USSR Information Bulletin, January, 1949 WASHED by warm waves and drenched in sunshine, Yalta, in the Soviet Crimea, is one of nature's own health resorts. A winter as well as a summer resort, it has long been known for curing t

Published in 1957 in the USSR this folder of 15 cards looked at the art and artists of the Soviet Crimea. The works here were painted...

An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...

Soviet partisans after the liberation of the Crimea from the Nazis, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #483

Children play in front of a mural at the Artek Pioneer Youth Camp, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #478 Founded on June 16, 1925 the Artek...