Soviet women of the 1980s (PHOTOS)
Portrait of a woman in front of Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Semen Mishin-Morgenstern/MAMM/MDF
Moscow beauties Katya Chelichkina and Masha Kalinina
Sergey Borisov/MAMM/MDF
Singer Edita Piekha in evening dress
Sergey Borisov/MAMM/MDF
Fashion exhibition on the day of the city
Murom History and Art Museum
Communal kitchen
Vladimir Bogdanov/MAMM/MDF
Fashion show
Alexander Bobkin/Archive of Alexander Bobkin
Newlyweds
Nikolay Bolotin/MAMM/MDF
Grazhina. From the cycle “People of Lithuania”
Antanas Sutkus/MAMM/MDF
"The most beautiful..."
MAMM/MDF
Svetlana Toma in a scene from Alexander Kosarev’s film 'Souvenir for the Prosecutor'
Family archive of Maria Kosareva
Two sisters
Vladimir Karlov/Archive of Vladimir Karlov
Singer Zhanna Aguzarova in the studio of photographer Sergey Borisov
Sergey Borisov/MAMM/MDF
Visitors at Izmailovo Market
Alexey Bystrov/Archive of Vladimir Karlov
Artist Ekaterina Grigoryeva at Izmailovo Market
Alexey Bystrov/Archive of Vladimir Karlov
Girls sing The Beatles in a Leningrad hostel
Archive of Galina Piskunova
Cover of the vinyl record “Everest”
Sergey Borisov/MAMM/MDF
Young mothers with children in an amusement park in the city of Klaipeda, Lithuanian SSR
Archive of Vladimir Karlov
Actress Natalya Belokhvostikova
Alexander Steshanov/MAMM/MDF
Those eyes
Viktor Akhlomov/MAMM/MDF
Leningrad, 1987
Igor Mukhin/MAMM/MPH
Staff of the mirror-making workshop at the Irbit glass factory
Archive of Sergey Fedoseev
Slava Zaitsev Fashion House
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