Cozy winter Leningrad in Soviet retro PHOTOS
Snowfalls, icy canals, freezing pedestrians and snow-covered sculptures of the Summer Garden through the lens of legendary St. Petersburg photographers.
Sergei Falin. ‘City’, 1977
Oleg Poleshchuk. ‘Date’, 1970s
Boris Smelov. ‘Summer Garden. General view of the park alleys’, 1970s-1990s
Sergei Falin. Untitled. From the ‘The Magic of Transformation’ cycle, 1970s
Boris Smelov. Untitled (7th line of Vasilyevsky Island), 1970s
Oleg Bakharev. ‘Wormhole’, 1970-1990s
Vadim Egorovsky. ‘Alexander Bridge’, 1961
Vadim Egorovsky. ‘It’s Snowing’, 1960s
Vadim Egorovsky. ‘Winter Canal’, 1960s
An exhibition of vintage Leningrad photos is on display at the ‘ROSPHOTO’ exhibition center in St. Petersburg from December 24, 2024 to February 23, 2025.
