27 portraits of the era thaw

Categories: History

By Pictolic

Today we decided to remember how they lived and looked the Soviet era thaw — those happy ten years that occurred in the lives of Soviet citizens immediately after Stalin's death. While the country has undergone significant changes: the release of political prisoners, the elimination of the Gulag, the occurrence of a certain freedom of speech and freedom of artistic creativity, the relative democratization of political and social life, openness to the Western world.

We present you an interesting, ambiguous portraits, made in the era thaw.

In 1967 in the American LIFE magazine published a series of very optimistic and positive photos "Soviet youth" (Soviet Youth) photographer bill Eppridge (Bill Eppridge).

27 portraits of the era thaw

We picked up some of them.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Music room at the youth wedding.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The morning of the procedure.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The concert performances.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The festive evening.

27 portraits of the era thaw

A dance number.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Relax on the beach. Group shot of smiling young people for the American photographer.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Popular at the time chess.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Joyful children swim in a makeshift pool.

27 portraits of the era thaw

A happy worker.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The beginning of the Khrushchev thaw. Trahman M. world festival of youth and students. Moscow. 1957

27 portraits of the era thaw

In 1959, a few years before the visit of the American photographer, the Muscovites met the representatives and the models of Paris fashion house Christian Dior. These pictures show a Soviet citizens look "a little" in a different way in a more realistic light.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Muscovites of 1959.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Walk through the city center in the company of locals.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The aesthetic shock that is experienced by the citizens of the Soviet Union, looking at the Parisian beauties in "overseas" clothes, does not require review — the shocked faces captured impartial camera lens Howard Sochurek.

27 portraits of the era thaw

In Gum.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Winter of the same 1959. Young Moscow worker.

27 portraits of the era thaw

In 1959, the fill pipe pitch.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Aspectological in Leningrad, 1961.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Peasant, 1960.

27 portraits of the era thaw

1960.

27 portraits of the era thaw

The working of the plant, 1961.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Bathers, 1958.

27 portraits of the era thaw

Pioneer camp in the district of Bratsk, 1963.

Akhlomov V. "Lenin". Only to come to Moscow girl on red square.