Simple Muscovites of the 1950s through the eyes of an American

Thanks to the endless archives of LIFE magazine, we have a wonderful opportunity to go back in time and look into the eyes of our predecessors, who are so similar to us, but at the same time, completely different.

Evaluate for yourself a selection of photos taken back in 1956 by photographer Lisa Larsen. She became the first woman to receive the Photographer of the Year award, worked at LIFE under a contract from 1950 to 1958 and visited many times. In the selection, colorful portraits of Muscovites, according to which you can make an impression about that time.

Stadium cleaning

Lunch

Greenhouse workers

Women buy vegetables at the market

Facial peeling in a barber shop

Road worker

Women at the entrance to the store

Girls prepare food

Department store employee

Granddaughter and grandmother

Puppet Theater

Flower sellers

Family

Meeting of the Social Insurance Committee

Mom and daughter in the dining room

Manicurist and client

At the store

Athlete Galina Zybina

Athlete Galina Vinogradova prepares breakfast

Galina Vinogradova is studying at the medical Institute

Athlete Nina Dumbadze

Young swimmers

Director of a tobacco factory

Factory girl

Director of the maternity hospital

Two girls sing in a kindergarten

Girl with a guy in a boat

Pioneers

Pregnant girls at a doctor's appointment

Girls at work

Perming

A woman buys her daughter ice cream

At the GUM shop window