Arkady Shaikhet: Historical Photos 1932-1941

Arkady Shaikhet was one of the most prominent modernist photographers of the XX century. Discover some of his never-before published works at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum September 19, 2014 - October 23, 2014

Above: Carriage and car. Taxis at the Bolshoi Theatre. Moscow, 1935
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
Silver gelatin print

Above: Red Army bathing area. Nikolaev, 1932
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Kievsky Station. Moscow, 1936
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: The composer Dmitri Shostakovich. 1941
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Tractor and plane, 1936
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Spraying the fields. 1930s
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: A day off on the Moskva River, 1940
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Red Army bathing area. Nikolaev, 1932
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Silhouette of the Dneprovsky Steel Works at night, May 1941
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Okhotniy Ryad. Street traffic. Moscow, 1935
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Far East Fleet. Guns, 1939
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: A signal flashed by fishermen keeping watch on the Caspian Sea. 1936
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Viaduct at the Northern (Khimkinsky) River Terminal. Moscow-Volga Canal. 1939
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: A boy on a bicycle crosses Gorky Street. Moscow, 1935
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Reconstruction of Gorky Street. Moscow, 1935
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Motor torpedo boats. Training the Worker-Peasant Red Fleet (RKKF). Leningrad, 1940
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Border guard. Night. Snow. Western Ukraine, 10 March 1939
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Catching sturgeon on the Volga. Gurievsky Fisheries. July-August 1940
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Bicycles at a tea house. Uzbekistan, 1935
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Flight of steps. Tbilisi, 1939
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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Above: Express. Moscow, Udelnaya station, 1939
Photo by Arkady Shaikhet
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One of two trial versions of the 2-3-2 steam train. Followed the route Moscow-Leningrad