In 1958 the Belgian city of Brussels hosted the World's Fair. The USSR had what was by all accounts a spectacular pavilion from the...

USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...

"May 1: Glory to the Great Soviet Union, the Standard Bearer of Peace!", poster USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #769

Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...

Youth, Alexei Tertyshnikov and Igor Kravtsov, USSR 1962 -- Daily LIFT #767

Triumphant and solemn, the flash of predawn light Has pierced through the gloom of the night Still asleep are the rays of the sun --...

For most of its history the area of the city of Nakhodka was a small set of towns on the Pacific coast of the Russian and then Soviet Far...

B. B. King in the USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #762 King toured the USSR in 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow,...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, July 22 1932 -- Daily LIFT #760 The photographer, Mikhail Ozersky, in 1963 wrote of the photo that was taken on...

Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...

Stamp honouring the North Ossetian ASSR, USSR 1960 On July 7, 1924. The North Ossetian Republic was founded in the USSR. In 1936 it...

March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #748

New tractor is delivered to a collective farm, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, spring 1939 -- Daily LIFT #747 The rapid industrialization of the...

Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...

Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...

To the Eternal Memory of Those Soviet People Who Gave Their Lives in the Struggle Against Fascism, dedication page of a history of the...

Cover of the English language edition of a Lenin biography published by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #738 A...

A Spanish Republican soldier in Moscow to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, November 7, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #735...

Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...

Karl Marx Statue on Karl Marx Avenue, Kaliningrad USSR c. 1980 -- Daily LIFT #727