'Family portrait' photo by Vasily Ulitin, Soviet Russia, 1920s.

'From Distant Planets' Ukrainian sci-fi book, 1963.

Yakut signalmen search for a broken wire at -58F. Excerpt from 1964 documentary film.

Tallinn city ambulance team leaving for a call, Estonia, 1973.

Soviet factory. Painting by Yuri Sofronov, 1969.

Lada Niva Soviet car ad, 1977.

'Extend your hand to nature with kindness!' Ukrainian environmental poster, 1978.

'Master of the Daily Life'. Excerpt from 1932 Soviet animated film.

“Zarya” residence in Foros, Crimea, built in 1988 especially for Mikhail Gorbachev and his family. Photo by Alexey Pavlishak.

Soviet winter fashion, 1950s.

Post-Soviet visual. Photo by Alexander Petrosyan, St.Petersburg, 2010s.

'424 hours in orbit around the Earth. The crew of the SOYUZ-9 spacecraft Andriyan Nikolaev, Vitaly Sevastyanov' Soviet postage stamp, 1970.

'Face'. Excerpt from Kazakh animated film, 1988.

Constructivist public bath, Leningrad, 1930.

'Parachuting sport- 1st category' Soviet badge, 1980.

'Cross the road at the indicated place!' Soviet pocket calendar, 1970.

Hydrotherapy at a vet clinic. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha, Moscow, USSR, 1939.

'Shoemaker and Mermaid'. Excerpt from 1989 Soviet animated film.

'Hunters, destroy crows and magpie, they are pests of the hunting farm!' Soviet poster, 1960.

Russian CAPTCHA is, appropriately, torture