We give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s
Readers who bought the November 1967 issue of LIFE expected to see there black-and-white pictures of the revolution fifty years ago: Red Square, crowds of workers chanting slogans. Instead, there were Soviet youth on the pages of the magazine: beautiful and quite uninhibited girls and boys sunbathed on the beach, danced in clubs and kissed delightfully at the Neptune festival.
Neptune's Holiday on the Black Sea. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Neptune's Holiday on the Black Sea. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Soviet beach and sparkling humor. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
A girl is sunbathing on the beach. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Summer is always a beach holiday. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Young people lined up for water skiing. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Photo: Bill Eppridge.
They were escaping from the heat outside the city with beer. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Cafe "White Nights" in Leningrad. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Picnic outside the city. Bearded student of the Metallurgical Institute Georgy Sayanov flirts with Tanya Shafarenko is a student of MADI. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Friends on a picnic. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Photo: Bill Eppridge.
A young man is taking a break from work at the state farm named after him. Budennogo. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
State farm named after. Budyonny, where students from Rostov worked that summer. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Students wash their faces before the morning examination. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Plasterer at work. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Using clay, students plaster the house. There were only three girls out of 45 students. They got easier jobs. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Laying of walls. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Break. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Fresh watermelons are a mandatory part of the summer diet of Soviet people. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Awarding the most hard-working team. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
After the bath. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
The young man added colors to the monochrome game. Photo: Bill Eppridge.
Photo: Bill Eppridge.
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