Mid-Century Soviet Photos

From the archives of ITAR-TASS come these photos of the Soviet Union in the middle of the last century.

"The Sketches of Industry", V. Koshevoy, 1962

"The antenna of the television center in Moscow", V. Gende-Rothe, L. Porter, 1960

"The construction of a plant", B. Klipinitser, 1961

"Steel balls", V. Hulayev, 1962

"Large-scale chemistry", M. Redkin, 1961

Finally a cityscape to provide a break from all the industrials
"The city on piles. Oil rocks", Y. Rakhil, 1974

(from prophotos-ru via EnglishRussia, the source of the translations. Note that EnglishRussia is NSFW, unless you have ad-blockers enabled)

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