Michael Laxer
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
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Michael Laxer
- Jan 26
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #870
Monument to the January Uprising, 1918, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #870 In the January Uprising the workers of Kiev...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #862
Memorial Complex to the Victims of Fascism, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #862
Michael Laxer
- Nov 13, 2021
- 5 min
Queen of the cabbies of Soviet Kiev, 1982
An interesting piece of Soviet social and transportation history, this brief article takes a look at the life and work of a taxi driver...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 6, 2021
- 9 min
Soviet 1960: A year in the life of the USSR in pictures
1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #421
1965 advertisement for a 16 day trip from Canada to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #421 Organized by the Canada-USSR Association in Toronto, the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev"
"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev, the capital of Soviet Ukraine" - quote from a...
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