The following photos of Moscow of 1959 were made by Carl Mydans who posted them in Life magazine.
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Clothes, church, winter, 1959.
Early morning on Vasilevsky descent.
Along the wall of Moscow China town.
A woman and her granddaughter next to the Metropol Hotel.
Divers on the Moscow river.
Pigeons in the street.
Pigeons next to Red Square.
The road along the Kremlin wall.
Tubes are covered with black pitch.
Sledding in the Alexander Gardens.
Skiers.
A toy store ‘Detski Mir’ before the New Year of 1960.
First buildings constructed in the time of Khrushchev.
Moscow, Kremlin.
The Moscow river.
A Muscovite.
Muscovite children on Suvorovsky Boulevard.
Sailors.
Zoo.
A trolleybus.
Moscow University on Vorobyovy mountains.
The people are waiting for their turn to enter the Mausoleum.
Monument to A. Gertsen.
Sale of newspapers.
Sale of pies and ice-cream.
Soviet kids.
Fisherman.
Soldier.
Theater Square.
Removal of snow next to the National Hotel.
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Moscow China town? Dude, seriously? Kitay-gorod has nothing to do with China at all.
It has, actually. People who named Kitai-gorod wall did it under impression from Great China Wall.
Alex, Kitay-gorod translates to China Town.
The toy shop woman looks pretty and very pleasant. I would have bought a thing if I had been in front of her.
Realy nice pictures.
In the pic about half way down (the one under the statue of A. Gertson) there is the back of a car that looks like its an American 1959 or 60 Ford Fairlane, or did Russian cars look like that.
Also in the back of that pic is the woman and her granddaughter from the 1st and 5th pic.
It has nothing to do with China indeed. Here “china” means castle.
Never saw a snow removal machine like that before. Pretty handy.
And fast. It thows snow into the river (you can see river in background).
A. Herzen: “Father of Russian Socialism” ; SR hero; You are remembered.
Blake, try wiki, maybe? I know history of my city, tyvm.
“scholars universally agree that the name originally had nothing to do with Kitay as in “China”, as there has never been significant Chinese presence in this district of Moscow.
Kita (pl. kity) is a somewhat obsolete word for “plait” or “thing made by braiding”"
“Tubes are covered with black pitch.”
Why? To prevent rusting from outside?
Yes. UV breaks down the covering so it is regularly renewed.
IIRC, most of the Khrushchev-era housing estates in Moscow was demolished after the land prices in the center of Moscow skyrocketed.