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Photographs by Phillip Harrington, shot in Moscow in November 1956. When Harrington arrived in Moscow, he worked with journalist Edmund Stevens of Time Magazine and set out to photograph the lives of ordinary people in Moscow and across Russia. These old vintage images show Harrington's street photography of people shopping, at the market, commuting on the train, working, going to the theater, and playing.
Locations are the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin, Novospassky Monastery, and the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH)

St. Basil's is barely visible in background, Moscow, 1956

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Novospassky Monastery, Moscow, 1956

Novospassky Monastery 1956

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Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge - at approximately the location where Boris Nemtsov was assassinated. Moscow, 1956


Youths on the bridge, Moscow, 1956

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Moscow, 1956

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St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, 1956

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Russian and East German Soldiers examining new cars in Moscow 1956.




Girls in Street, Moscow 1956


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Moscow, 1956

Obraztsov Puppet Theater

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Group of people visiting the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, 1956

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Line of people going to see a film in Moscow, 1956

Televisions for sale in a store window in Moscow, 1956

Fruit and Vegetable shop in Moscow 1956

People at an outdoor market

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People at an outdoor market

People at an outdoor market

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People at an outdoor market

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Family selling pomegranates at a market in Moscow, 1956

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People at an outdoor market

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