Scenes Of The USSR

These photographs were taken while I was working for the U. S. State Department in the Soviet Union in 1987-1988. They represent an attempt to document some of the visual landscape of Soviet society that was beginning to change and has now largely vanished.

For an extensive collection of photographs of Russia and its regions, go to the University of Washington's Central Eurasian Information Resource

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  • Wedding
  • Ice cream stand: "No change", "No Spitting", "Out sick"
  • Found a new love
  • Women on bench, Crimea
  • View through tailor's window, Tbilisi
  • Shopping at the Rainbow Store with Marx
  • "Scenes from the History of Footwear", Irkutsk
  • Community Safety and Social Order Post, No. 2, Kirov neighborhood
  • Rural funeral, near Balta in southern Ukraine
  • Citizens of the USSR have the Right to Work
  • Review of the Army Talent Within the Red Banner of Transcaucasia
  • Evening promenade with Gagarin, Irkutsk
  • Window of Political Satire. The US as traffic cop in the Persian Gulf
  • "Perestroika--The Direct Continuation of October"
  • Pelmeni, Irkutsk
  • Peace Dove, May Day 1988, Irkutsk
  • Near Moscow
  • Onward to New Victories, My Republic! Tbilisi
  • Oil Extraction in the USSR "Onward to new triumphs of labor!"
  • Stalin frieze, Tbilisi
  • Stalin with children, Tbilisi
  • Stalin memorial, Georgia
  • Window cleaning
  • "What is to be done?", Irkutsk
  • The Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi
  • Veterans' Wall, Irkutsk