Советский Союз / The Soviet Union ; 1950- 1967

«Из России с любовью»
Фотографии Эрвин Волков
1950-1967

"From Russia with love"
Photographs by Erwin Volkov
1950-1967

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Here I present a really delightful set of photographs of photographs of the Sovieet Union, taken by the east german photographer, Erwin Volkov.

Erwin Volkov (1920–2003) was the son of a World War I German captive and a Russian for St. Petersburg, Nadezhda Volkova.
Sharing the same fate as his father, Erwin was taken prisoner by the Soviet army in the South of the USSR in 1942. He spent the following six years in the Soviet Union and afterwards was sent to East Germany to work in media.
In 1957, a keen traveler, journalist, and by then an author of a number of books about Moscow and Leningrad, Volkov set off on a six month journey around the USSR, commissioned by the East German newspaper Wochenpost.

Together with his team, he passed though Murmansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Far East, along the Volga River, North Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Black sea coast from Adler to Novorossiysk, Crimea, Ukraine, including the biosphere reserve Askania-Nova, Belorussia. After the first trip, Erwin returned repeatedly in 1961, 1965, 1967 and discovered new places and new roads on the country’s map.
These photographs curtesy of Photography-now

Видео Советский Союз / The Soviet Union ; 1950- 1967 канала Nigel Fowler Sutton