"Larechnaya" Moscow, which we have lost

Yes, stalls and tents - it was convenient. You get out of the subway, and you have a choice of hundreds of goods: socks, thread, cords, tobacco, drink, eat — whatever your heart desires. And always these small but incredibly functional buildings have been part of the look of the capital. Consumer life was boiling around them and, of course, the bureaucratic and trade "mafia" was maturing.

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Source: Facebook/Stas Zitsky

And when a whole conglomerate literally fell overnight, a wave of public outrage over Sobyanin's lawlessness covered the Internet. The meme "The Night of the Long Buckets" appeared, and accusations were poured in the direction of the mayor that he had deprived thousands of people of their jobs.

Now that the tents are gone, we can say a belated goodbye to them and delve a little into the "stall" history of Moscow. Je suis larek, as they say. Let's hope that what appears (or does not appear at all, who knows) on the site of the stalls will be hundreds of times cooler.

Vegetable tent in the possession of No. 2 on Nikitsky Boulevard, 1955.

Car kiosk, 1920s.

Tents of the International Red Stadium.

1930s, metro station "Palace of Soviets" (metro station "Kropotkinskaya").

Autumn 1947.

1925. A kiosk advertising "Nowhere but in Mosselprom".

The market at the Kitaygorodskaya wall, 1920s.

Tobacco stall at Christmas, 1957.

1920s, a tent with beer on the OST.

The 1980s.

1979, beer stall on Trubnaya.

1928, Tishinskaya Square.

At the entrance to Sokolniki Park, 1947.

Corner of October 25 (Nikolskaya Street) and Dzerzhinsky Square (now Lubyanskaya).

The market at the Kitaygorodskaya Wall, 1930-1934.

The Pepsi tent in November 1989.

June 1969.

The market in the photo by Karl Maidans, 1959.

Fruit tent, 1969.

Fair in Luzhniki, 1984. In these stalls, it was at the time presented that numbered models of collectible cars of Saratov production were sold. Also, I remember, they sold there a miniature composition "Tsar Bell".

The 1960s.

The shoeshine man and his tent, 1980s.

On the left — winter in Moscow in 1959, on the right - a tent next to the metro station "Tsvetnoy Boulevard" in 1947.

On the left is one of the famous shots of Cartier-Bresson from the series "People of Russia", on the right is a stall from 1925.

GUM stall (1920-1925) and flower kiosk on Pushkin Square (1930).