Give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s

Readers who bought the November issue LIFE 1967, expecting to see black-and-white pictures of the revolution fifty years ago: Red square, the working crowd, chanting slogans. Instead, the magazine was a Soviet youth: beautiful and quite wild girls and boys sunbathing on the beach, danced in clubs and delightful kissed on the feast of Neptune.

Feast of Neptune on the Black sea. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Feast of Neptune on the Black sea. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

These pictures someone might seem presentable with a print life behind the iron curtain, but the Eppridge was your view. His photos are the first generation that has come of age, having been born after the great Patriotic war. It was a "generation Satellite". Unlike their parents, they grew up in a time when Gagarin went to space, but not during a terrible night knock on the door and the destruction of war. When they come to school, they saw a portrait of Vladimir Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev, not Joseph Stalin.

Soviet beach and sparkling humor. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

The girl sunbathes on the beach. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Summer means beach vacation. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Young people lined up on water skis. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Temperatures outside the city of beer. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Cafe White nights in Leningrad. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Picnic in the country. Bearded student and Metallurgical Institute Georgi sayanov flirts with Tanya Shafarenko, a student at MADI. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Friends at the picnic. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Young man takes a break from work at the farm to them. Budyonny. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Sovkhoz im. Budyonny, where students from Rostov worked that summer. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Students wash before the morning inspection. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Plasterer at work. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Using clay, students plastered the house. Of the 45 students were only three girls. They got the easy job. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Styling the walls. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Break. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Fresh watermelon — a mandatory part of the summer diet of the Soviet people. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Rewarding the most hard-working team. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

After the bath. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

The young man added color, monochrome game. Photo: Bill Eppridge.

Photo: Bill Eppridge.