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Cuba's President pays tribute to the defenders of Leningrad
Images via Revolution Studios Via the Communist Party of Cuba & Granma, translated from the Spanish St. Petersburg— First Secretary of...

The Left Chapter
May 61 min read


Memories of Lenin: A Visit to the Soviet Lenin museums, 1948
LENIN MUSEUM. School children and their teacher view portraits and statues of the founder of their State. From USSR Magazine, April 1948:...

The Left Chapter
Apr 225 min read


Daily LIFT #1606
Leningrad tourist poster, 1933 -- Daily LIFT #1606
Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1421
Leningrad, The Year of 1941, painting Andrei Mylnikov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1421 A painting capturing the beginning of the terrible...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1397
Parade on Palace Square, Leningrad USSR, November 7, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1397
Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20241 min read


David Bowie in the USSR
While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20242 min read


900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad
The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...
Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20249 min read


Daily LIFT #1014
Ho Chi Minh with sailors of the Soviet Navy in Leningrad, August 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1014
Michael Laxer
Aug 22, 20231 min read


Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20232 min read


Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20232 min read


V. I. Lenin Sketch, N. Altman 1920
Images of Lenin #41 V. I. Lenin sketch, Nathan Altman, 1920 -- Images of Lenin #41 Nathan Altman (b. 1889) was a prominent Soviet artist...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20221 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20221 min read


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 --...
Michael Laxer
Jan 29, 20221 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #624
Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Aug 17, 20211 min read


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....
Michael Laxer
May 27, 20213 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 20211 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20214 min read


Daily LIFT #419
Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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