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

Viva Cuba!, poster Viktor Koretskii USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #726 Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), an astonishingly...

Images of Lenin #64 Lenin Sketch, Nikolay Andreyev, USSR 1920s -- Images of Lenin #64 Andreyev (1873-1932) was a sculptor and artist best...

Images of Lenin #62 V. I. Lenin, A. Goncharov, USSR 1969 -- Images of Lenin #62 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Andrei...

Images of Lenin #59 May the Ruling Classes Tremble in the Face of the Communist Revolution, A. Sokolov, USSR 1922 -- Images of Lenin #58...

The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...

Let Soviet-Mongolian friendship become stronger!, poster USSR -- Daily LIFT #717 A friendship poster between the USSR and the Mongolian...