Soviet life in photos 1981
• Soviet life for 1981 Photographer of the Year
It seemed to me that I do not remember 1981, much worse than the 1979 th or 1980 th. There were no highlights, for which one could "catch". But look these pictures and images, impressions of that time began to rise, to emerge from the depths of his memory.
Overall, in 1981 - is the apogee of "stagnation", the last stage of ossification of the Soviet political system. Total "baby" memory of the early 1980s - and the cold grayness. But there was one bright spot, which warmed everything - a holiday "in the south", that is, on the Black Sea coast. In the early 1980s there went millions of Soviet citizens. Most of them was getting the trains.
Further images from the photo essay in 1981 by Peter Marlow (Magnum agency):
December 19 Leonid Ilyich was awarded the fourth star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Resting on the train at the Sochi railway station.
The Pioneers at Sochi station.
The Odessa beach.
Boat trips. Sochi.
Excursions in open buses. Sochi.
A game of chess and checkers on the seafront in Sochi.
Show in Sochi "nightclub".
Primorsky Boulevard in Sochi.
The room of distorting mirrors in Sochi.
Slots and shooting. Sochi.
Street tray with ice cream. Sochi.
Bochkova brew.
The Lesson "Disco" in the pioneer camp "Red Flag" near Odessa.
Veteran talks about war children in the pioneer camp "Red Flag" near Odessa.
Clothing store in Odessa.
On the Belarus railway station in Moscow.
Kharkiv
Kiev Khreshchatyk.
Dzerzhinsky Square. Lubyanka.
The Moscow street.
Odessa on a rainy day.
foreign attraction at ENEA in Moscow.
The people resting after sulfur baths at Matsesta.
On the bench in Riga.
oxygen treatment in a sanatorium near Riga.
Yakutsk.
Children's Clinic in Novorossiysk.
Sofia's Square in Kyiv.
The queue for Pepsi-Cola.
A member of the Riga hunting club.