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    V. I. Lenin Sketch, N. Altman 1920
    Michael Laxer
    • May 4
    • 1 min

    V. I. Lenin Sketch, N. Altman 1920

    Images of Lenin #41 V. I. Lenin sketch, Nathan Altman USSR, 1920 -- Images of Lenin #41 Nathan Altman (b. 1889) was a prominent Soviet...
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    Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World!
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 26
    • 1 min

    Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World!

    Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World, Soviet Literacy Poster 1931 Soviet poster noting the great strides in Soviet...
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    Daily LIFT #635
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 29
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #635

    Tanks produced in Leningrad factories drive straight to the front down the Nevsky Prospekt to try to break the siege, January 1943 --...
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    Daily LIFT #634
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 28
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #634

    A woman embraces a soldier with joy on the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted, January 27, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #634 On January 27, 1944...
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    Daily LIFT #624
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 16
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #624

    Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624
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    Daily LIFT #515
    Michael Laxer
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #515

    On the Lake Ladoga Road of Life, BV Korneev (1922-1973) Oil on canvas -- Daily LIFT #515 A painting of a Soviet soldier directing traffic...
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    A trip along Leningrad's Nevsky Prospect, USSR 1974
    Michael Laxer
    • May 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    A trip along Leningrad's Nevsky Prospect, USSR 1974

    The Nevsky Prospect is the most famous street in what is now again called St. Petersburg and this was equally true during the Soviet era....
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    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966

    Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...
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    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 27, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line

    Photos via Soviet Union Today, You Tube and public domain. In 1965 the production of the Soviet ocean liner the MS Aleksandr Pushkin was...
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    Daily LIFT #419
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #419

    Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...
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    Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction

    On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
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    Leningrad in winter, 1978
    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Leningrad in winter, 1978

    A look at some of the sights of a snowy Leningrad, 1978. This charming folder of 12 winter postcard images of Leningrad was released in...
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