15 photos that honestly talk about how the USSR lived on the eve of the collapse

This post is about the life of Soviet citizens in one of the most difficult periods for the state, when it was on the verge of death. There was no longer any talk of a bright future, and this was understood by many inhabitants of the USSR. The spirit of depression and devastation was in the air. This is precisely what talented and honestly reflected in his photographs by the successful Russian documentary photographer and documentary Igor Stomakhin. This is how the Soviet decline came about in its lens.

Showcase of the souvenir department in GUM, 1987. Photo: Stomakhina.

GUM in 1990.

Sculpture of a horse on the roof of the Central Moscow Hippodrome in 1990.

Accepting bets at the racetrack in 1990.

Janitors on the Patriarchs in 1983.

Near the pub at Pokrovka in 1982.

Corner of Tsvetnoy and Rozhdestvensky Boulevards in 1989.

Fountain in Novopushkinsky Square in 1984.

Snowfall on the Arbat in 1984.

In the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha in 1988.

Taxi drivers blocked Tverskaya Street, demanding the privatization of a taxi fleet in 1991.

Little gypsies on Vozdvizhenka in 1991.

Donskoy monastery in 1989.

Misha Krasnoshtan in 1989.

The door to the entrance of the Bulgakov house in 1981.

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