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Soviet students dressed as birds, c. 1930.
Classic Beauty, Fay Wray 1934.
One of Stalin’s Falcons, 1936. Photo by Ivan Shagin.
“At one point during the 1930s, Soviet aviators concurrently held 62 world aviation records. These men and women, dubbed ‘Stalin’s Falcons’ by the state-controlled media in the USSR, performed heroic feats in the name of the Soviet motherland and received the grateful plaudits of Stalin and the Central Committee. Indeed, Stalin and his colleagues supervised the efforts of the Soviet Union’s aviators so closely that these ‘Falcons’ themselves became a part of the Cult of Stalin. Moreover, they and their achievements fed into all of the key themes of the Stalinist 1930s.” (Source)
Iron Puddler at the Red October Rolling Mills, Stalingrad, 1930. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White.
Russian friends on an outing, Harbin, undated.
Soldier of the Red Army at military maneuvers, Kiev, 1935. Photo by Ivan Shagin.
Couple at the entrance to the metro station ‘Dinamo’, Moscow, 1938.
Vasily Kuptsov - Tupolev ANT-20 ’Maxim Gorky’, 1934
American expatriate baseball team in Gorky Park, among them is Gulag survivor Victor Herman and his brother Leo, Moscow, 1932.
Yuri Nikulin in his youth, photo taken in the late 1930’s.
