Despite living in a communist country, Soviet young people were enjoying the best time of their lives, which seems to be much more exciting than contemporary times. They had no gadgets or fidget spinners, but they traveled, practiced sports and partied hard at rock concerts. It seems that the youth of the XX century was legendary.

Members of an amateur film studio of the Sokolovsko-Sarbai mining and processing plant. The Kustanai region, the Kazakh SSR, currently Kazakhstan.

The participant of the "Moskovsky Komsomolets" festival rides a skateboard.

Member of the international ascent of the peak of Communism, Czechoslovak mountaineer Khladek Leosh. The Tajik SSR, currently Tajikistan.

The opening of the first baseball stadium in the USSR at a sports town of the Moscow State University.

Participants of the first in the USSR international freestyle tournament held in Dombai, Caucasus.

Soviet women at a festival in Chisinau, currently Moldova, 1978.

Athletes at the USSR championship in water skiing.

Young people with a brown bear that left the Taiga on the Kolyma highway. 1967.

A participant of the first in the USSR international freestyle tournament in Dombai.

Members of the expedition dubbed "Man and the Desert," the pedestrian crossing of the Karakum Desert, Turkmen SSR (currently Turkmenistan) in July-August 1984.

Hydrogeologists are preparing for the survey of the bottom of the Kapchagaysky reservoir, the Kazakh SSR (currently Kazakhstan).

A spectator during a rock music competition in Moscow. 1988.

The Baltic Sea, 1980.

The 1970 USSR water skiing championship.

Youth from the US, the USSR and Finland at the International Children's Camp of the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students.

A group of parachute-jumpers, climbers and volcanologists after landing on Avachinskaya volcano, Kamchatka, the Russian Far East.

The "Katran" car made by craftsmen from Sevastopol at the All-Russian Exhibition of Scientific and Technical Creativity of Youth.

Models of the All-Union Fashion House. 1978.

The silver (1965) and bronze medalist (1966) of the USSR multiathlon cup, Sergei Diomidov. 1968.

A rock concern in Tartu, the Estonian SSR (currently Estonia). 1987.

Mountaineers in the Pamirs, a mountain range in Central Asia. 1972.
