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Soviet women of the 1950s (PHOTOS)

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RUSSIA BEYOND
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF; Maria Khartovich/russiainphoto.ru
The end of World War II and the beginning of Khrushchev thaw after Stalin’s death absolutely changed the way how Russian girls dressed and looked.
Two friends posing
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF
Actress Klara Luchko. At the North River Terminal in Moscow
Yevgeny Umnov/MAMM/MDF
Winter fashion 
Alina Bashmakova archive/russiainphoto.ru

A group portrait of friends
Semen Aniskov/Kaliningrad Union of photo artists

Actress Irina Mushtakova 
Semen Mishin-Morgenstern/MAMM/MDF
A female spinner
Emmanuel Evzerikhin/MAMM/MDF/TASS 

“There is not a single language that Lenin’s immortal works wouldn’t be translated into”
Emmanuel Evzerikhin/MAMM/MDF

A woman in the kitchen
Arkady Shaikhet/Private collection
Friends posing during May 1 celebrations in Moscow
Vladimir Karlov archive//russiainphoto.ru

Industrial College students posing
Raziny archive/russiainphoto.ru
Young doctors in a garden
Maria Khartovich/russiainphoto.ru

Women forming a line to an information desk
Dmitry Baltermanz/MAMM/MDF
A woman posing in May in Magnitogorsk 
Yulia Antonova archive/russiainphoto.ru

A female skier posing
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF

A kolkhoz chairwoman inspects a construction site
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

A May 1 demonstration 
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF
A female welder laughing
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

Two female worker enjoying an afternoon rest
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF

Two female workers on an oil production platform in Azerbaijan
Robert Diament/MAMM/MDF

Young skaters going for a walk
Alexander Pakhomov/MAMM/MDF
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