About 66% of the Russian population regret that the Soviet Union collapsed, according to a 2018 poll. According to reviews, what is missed most about the former Soviet Union was its shared economic system, which granted a modicum of financial stability and also a sense of belonging to a great superpower.
A tired boy in his mother’s arms on a Moscow street in 1963.
A man and a woman in a Zhiguli, in Tolyatti, 1971.
Young fathers with their babies on one of Vilnius' streets. Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990.
The restoration of the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow, 1979.
A father teaches twins to ride tricycles, 1968.
A couple walks through tram lines, 1968.
A sushki factory. Sushki are small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings, 1967.
Girls from the choreographic studio in the classroom at the Meridian Palace of Culture, 1985.
A woman looks at a bronze female sculpture by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.
Young couple at Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, commonly called the Alyosha monument in Murmansk, 1977.
Tourists on an trip to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at St. Isaac's Cathedral (left), 1952.
Flight attendants in dance classes at the Leningrad Technical School of Civil Aviation, 1984.
A sentinel at a border post in the Arctic, 1982.
Newborns in a maternity hospital in Moscow, 1955
Pupils of the Tashkent orphanage holding melons, watermelons, grapes, and peaches that they grew themselves in their garden, 1983.
People moving to new houses in Orekhovo-Borisovo in Moscow, 1976.
Workers at the pig-breeding pavilion of the All-Russian Exhibition Centre (VDNKH) feed a pig with piglets on the lawn in front of the pavilion, 1983.
Moscow hipsters dancing the twist, 1980.
Electricians do a routine inspection of the power grid in the village of Elektrenai, Lithuania, 1984.
Pupils from the Naval Nakhimov School exercising on deck, 1988.
Workers at a bakery in Leninakan (Gyumri) unload fresh chureks (flatbread) from a bread van, 1968.
Children play with model planes in 1988.
A training room in a sanatorium in Kislovodsk, 1940.
A telephone exchange on Kalinin Street in Moscow, 1971.
