Tourists from France try soviet ice cream, 1976 (photo by A. Kovtun)

Students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv read news about the first man in space, Ukrainian SSR, 1961

Youth of Norak, Tajik SSR, 1973 (photo by Vladimir Perventsev)

"Under the banner of Lenin's party, we are ready for any feat!", soviet poster, 1974

“At the sick teacher”, painting by Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Nelyubin, 1955

Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, 1970-1980

5th shock army, 60th division, 185th regiment. Guard Sergeant F.G. Grishchenko (sapper) teaches foreman T.I.Ostapenko, who has arrived from the replenishment, to work with a mine detector. September 1944

Members of the Soviet Olympic team place a portrait of Marshal Stalin beneath the hammer and sickle motif on the wall of the building where Soviet athletes are quartered at Otaniemi, Helsinki, 1952

In the dormitory in the city of Kirzhach in the Vladimir region, 1954

Crossroads of Molodezhnaya and Kalinin streets, Novopolotsk, Byelorussian SSR, 1980