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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  • Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Victory Day 1988, Irkutsk
  • Train station, Siberia
  • Tbilisi street scene with two women
  • Tbilisi shop window--Christie Brinkley, Georgian figurines, Peter the Great
  • "Everyone out for the Subbotnik!" Irkutsk, 1988
  • "Our Strength Lies in Our Friendship"
  • Street, Irkutsk
  • Street vendors
  • Street sweeper, Irkutsk
  • The Goal of the CPSU--
  • The "Chestnut-Tree" Store serves Foreign Citizens with Freely-Traded Hard Currency, Odessa
  • Window of Political Satire "No to Star Wars!" "Don't touch my little kiddies!"
  • Novostroika, place unknown
  • Moscow kitchen overlooking Sokolniki park
  • Mineral water, Irkutsk
  • Guarding the Eternal Flame, Pyatigorsk
  • Old couple
  • Voluntary Society for Cooperation with the Army, Air Force, and Navy USSR "The Defense of the Socialist Fatherland is the Sacred Duty of Every Citizen of the USSR" Shooting gallery
  • "The People and the Party are One!?", Irkutsk, 1988
  • "Assuring Reliable Defense for the Soviet People's Peaceful Labor"
  • Peace cosmonaut
  • Concrete waste, Hotel Intourist, Room 202, Irkutsk
  • Sign outside a restaurant at noon: "Closed for lunch", Irkutsk
  • Taking a rest
  • Church factory, Irkutsk
  • Siberian cemetary