MOSCOW by LIFE

olga · #1 Posted **Jan 1, 2009, 5:26 PM**

Inspired by Trantor`s Sao Paolo thread, I searched in the LIFE photo archives for pics from my own city.
I didn't find much though. Instead I put together this thread with old photos from Moscow.
Some of them are without a date, but I think those are from the late 1950´s.

Moscow streets and buildings illuminating during May Day celebration. 1963.

View of Moscow University during winter. 1958.

Winter In Moscow. Vendor manning his cart, selling dairy items kept fresh in winter cold. 1959.

New apartments going up on outskirts of Moscow. 1963.

Winter In Moscow.

Dior In Moscow.

Winter In Moscow.

anm · #2 Posted **Jan 1, 2009, 9:41 PM**

thanks, Olga

and Happy New Year to everybody!

anm · #3 Posted **Jan 3, 2009, 12:16 AM**

Hope, Olga you do not mind me adding these pics frpm 1960s

scanned, posted and commented by

valkorn.
http://valkorn.livejournal.com/420089.html

1. Red square

2. Manezh square

3. One more picture from Manezh square with old City Hall and State History museum.

4. Also taken from Manezh square. Looking towards of Manezh and Lomonosov university.

5. Mayakovsky square.

6. Pushkin square.

7. Kutusov avenue.

8. Kutuzov avenue. Museum-panorama Battle of Borodino.

9. An open pool Moskva.

10. House of Friendship.

11. USSR State Library of V. I. Lenin.

12. Marx avenue with a monument to Karl Marx.

13. Sverdlov square with Bolshoi Theater.

14. Central Park of Culture and Rest of M. Gorky.

15. Andrey Rublev museum (former Andronnikov monastery).

16. Planetarium.

17. Chkalova street.

18. Komsomol square.

19. Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument.

20. Space exploration monument.

21. Dzerzhinsky square.

22. Moscow City Palace of pioneers and school pupils.

23. Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University hostel.

24. South-east of Moscow.

25. Lomonosov avenue.

26. Lenin avenue. Heroes of cosmos parade.

27. Lenin avenue.

28. Borodino.

29. Kolomenskoye.

30. Ring motorway.

31. Domodedovo airport.

olga · #4 Posted **Jan 3, 2009, 12:45 AM**

I don't mind at all. I love old photos. It's striking how few cars there were...

And s novym godom to you too!