Music on the Bones
When vinyl was scarce various underground retailers sought out alternatives. One such alternative was to print music on old discarded x-rays they recovered from the Soviet hospital. The result was a flimsy disk with ghostly images of rib cages and broken limbs imprinted on the plastic.
(via ddr-and-soviet-romanticizing)
Maarjamäe Memorial
Architect: Allan Murdmaa
Location: Maarjamäe, Estonia
Central Post Office, Kharkiv, Arkady Mordvinov, 1928-29
(via sovietgeometry)
Policeman Booth, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1967
Tashkent, 1965
Hotel Uzbekistan. View this on the map
Moscow subway entrances.
Visit here for more rare photos/videos of the glorious Moscow Metro system upon opening in the 1930s, with text by Owen Hatherley.
‘We build the city where you will live.’
Tiraspol, Transnistria. Summer of 2012.
Giant mural of Lenin in front of the Park for Industry and Science, 1961