Soviet Moscow through the eyes of photographer Naum Granovsky (PHOTOS)
One of the best architectural photographers captured the way the city’s appearance changed rapidly from the mid-1920s to the 1980s and, with it, the life of Moscow and Muscovites.
One of the first Renault cabs in Moscow parked by the ‘Mostorg’ building, 1926
Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation. A woman posing with an oar, 1930s
Construction of a ‘seven sister’ high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, 1951
Construction of another ‘seven sister’ high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square, 1952
A fragment of the facade of the Foreign Ministry's ‘seven sister’ high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square, 1953
Komsomolskaya Square, 1957
The ‘seven sister’ high-rise building housing the ‘Leningradskaya’ hotel as a steam locomotive passes by, 1968
Marx Prospect (now Okhotny Ryad Street), 1960s
Mayakovskaya metro station, 1950s
A skating rink next to an apartment block on Kotlovskaya Street (now Simferopolsky Boulevard), 1965
Khoroshevo-Mnevniki District, 1960
The exhibition of Naum Granovsky's photos is on display at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow until June 1, 2025.
