22 atmospheric photos that will give you an unexpected look at history

A new batch of photographs, thanks to which we have a unique opportunity to immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of a bygone era that will never be repeated.

Policeman measuring the length of a swimsuit, USA, 1964

Leningrad. A cozy cafe-confectionery on Nevsky Prospekt. May 1941

Patrol inspectors inspect cars driving across the border. El Paso, Texas. 1941

The building of the Nizhny Novgorod enterprise with the tricky name “Nizhkraikartofelflodovegetosoyuz”. 1929

Classmates, Texas, USA, 1944.

Three children enjoy sandwiches with caviar in a kindergarten. July. Moscow, 1965

The German barque "Padua" ("Kruzenshtern") is driven to the Baltic for reparations, 1946.

Cigarette butt collector. Paris 1905.

Dzhigits gallop through the mountains. Dagestan. 1968

Punk, 1970.

Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard, 1970s

Remote service for trying on shoes right behind the wheel

Explosion of the bell tower of the Church of the Nativity in Murom, 1930.

The cult of Charles Manson. Young girls carve swastikas on their foreheads as a sign of support, 1970

Dismantling of border fortifications between West and East Germany, 1989.

Father and son white farmers, 1986, Zimbabwe. The photograph by Chris Steele-Perkins shows a moment of crossroads: the War of Independence ended in December 1979, and the first seizure of land from whites would begin in 1999, another 13 years later.

"Voting on the barricades." The photo of Alfredas Girdziusas was taken on January 13, 1991, when the Soviet army tried to suppress anti-Soviet protests in Vilnius.

Flappers, 1928, Chicago, USA. Flappers were young emancipated girls of the 1920s.

A Soviet tankman pours vodka for a British sapper, May 1945.

Instructions from Life magazine on “how to kiss properly,” 1942.

Employees of the photo department of the Ogonyok magazine in their free time, 1952, Moscow

Albert Einstein in his free time from physics, 1939