“The Death Of Colossus”: Striking Candid Photographs That Capture Everyday Life In The USSR In 1984-1989
Hockey played in a Moscow housing estate, 1984
The ’80s weren’t a great time for those living in the USSR, although those living in Moscow had it better than most. Here’s a look at everyday life of the Soviets in the late 1980s. These amazing photographs were taken by Chris Niedenthal in 1984 through 1989.
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Moscow market, 1989
A Moscow man, 1988
Bakery in Moscow, 1989
Baku, Azerbaijan, 1989
Book stall in Moscow, 1989
‘Don’t look!’, Arbat, Moscow, 1989
Drying off after swimming lessons, Moscow, 1989 (L), Lenin, 1988 (R)
Moscow school, 1989 (L), Party Congress as seen from street level, Moscow, 1988 (R)
Elections in Riga, Latvia, 1989
‘Glasnost’ on the Arbat, Moscow, 1989
Group baptism in a Russian Orthodox church, Moscow, 1989
Moscow apartament, 1989
Moscow bride and groom, after the wedding in Moscow, 1984
Moscow family, 1989
Moscow girl, 1988
Boris Yeltsin during election rally, Moscow, 1989
Moscow school, 1984
TV store, Moscow, 1984
Moscow suburbs, 1989
Orthodox priest in a Moscow hospital, 1989
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1989
Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko with his wife, 1984
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Duma, Moscow, 1989
Soviet trolleybus, 1989
Street artist and the Red Army, on the Arbat, 1989
Taman Military Division during training, 1988
Tea break at factory producing busts and statues of Lenin, 1989
TV store in Moscow, 1988
Weight watchers, Moscow, 1988
Women’s day at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1984
