A remarkable year for a remarkable prize. Winners included Kwame Nkrumah and Pablo Picasso and hailed from Ghana, France, the Hungarian...

From the Soviet Press, 1960 The union was an important factor in getting the plant and personnel prepared for the switchover to the 7...

From the original Soviet card (translated): ZIS-155 (1949-1957) City bus with front engine based on ZIS-155 truck units. A modification...

Husband and wife team of a Soviet self-propelled gun during the Great Patriotic War, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #1702 Vera Orlova was the...

From The Soviet Press, 1960 Along with the changeover to the 7-hour day came not only more free time but a general overhaul of the wage...

Lenin in front of the "Plan for the Electrification of RSFSR", illustration, USSR 1945 -- Daily LIFT #1701

Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov -- who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth after Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...

A look at the magnificent Soviet palace from 1962 & 1979 From the Soviet Press, July 1962: ALTHOUGH the Palace of Congresses is one of...

Soviet and French pilots at the Kursk Bulge. where nazi troops suffered a crushing defeat. From the Soviet Press 1984: The...

From the Soviet Press, 1960 When the country had rebuilt itself after the enormous destruction of the Second World War, the work day was...

Soviet factory workers meet in 1959 to discuss the 7 Year Plan and political issues of the day -- Daily LIFT #1694

From the Soviet Press, 1960 These pictures were taken at the Vladimir Ilyich electromechanical plant built in a Moscow suburb at the end...

From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-63 (1948-1968) All-terrain truck based on GAZ-51. Had two drive axles, rear - for the...

THE AMERICAN FILM MARTY SHOWN AT UDARNIK, ONE OF THE LARGEST CINEMA THEATERS IN MOSCOW. TEN AMERICAN AND SEVEN SOVIET FILMS WILL BE...

Discussing That Unsatisfactory Mark at School, Painting by S. GRIGORYEV, USSR Art Exhibition of 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1690 From the Soviet...

An Honored Steelmaker and His Team, painting, G. Gorelov, USSR late 1950s --Daily LIFT #1686

Blast Furnace No. 1, P. Kotov, USSR 1930 -- Daily LIFT #1685 From the Soviet Press, 1959: A frequently used background in Soviet painting...

From the Soviet Press, 1951 The image of Paul Robeson, the eminent black singer and indefatigable fighter for peace and the freedom of...

At the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) The superiority of socialist power lies in the fact that it is the state of a...

Deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. from Soviet Turkmenia, (from the Soviet Press 1951). In the foreground, right to left, are...