Fascinating Vintage Photos Show Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1960s

#1 The Blue Mosque in Leningrad, 1963

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#2 Phone booth

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#3 City center – the Hermitage Museum

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#4 Church of the Savior on Blood

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#5 Peterhof Palace, 1963

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#6 Leningrad street scenes, 1963

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#7 Leningrad street scenes, 1963

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#8 Canal Griboyedov -St. Saviour’s Church, modelled on St. Basil’s in Moscow, 1968

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#9 Remote districts of Leningrad

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#10 A park in Zelenogorsk near Leningrad, 1963

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#11 Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1963

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#12 Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1963

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#13 Flowers and soda on sale in Leningrad, 1963

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#14 Kazan Cathedral, 1963

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#15 Leningrad (now St Petersburg), 1963

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#16 Leningrad (St Petersburg) Admiralty, 1963

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#17 Peter and Paul Fortress by the Neva River, 1963

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#18 Peterhof Palace Grand Cascade, 1963

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#19 Peterhof Palace, 1963

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#20 Russian Museum with Pushkin monument, 1963

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#21 Samson Fountain in Peterhof, 1963

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#22 Soviet style housing, 1963

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#23 St Isaac’s Cathedral, 1963

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#24 St Isaac’s Cathedral, 1963

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#25 Street in Leningrad, 1963

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#26 The Admiralty, 1963

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#27 The Chess Mountain, Peterhof, 1963

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#28 Wedding in Leningrad, 1963

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#29 Wedding in Leningrad, 1963

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#30 Children’s Theatre, 1968

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#31 Comedy Theatre, 1968

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#32 Lenin monument at the Finland Station, 1968

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#33 Lomonsov Museum (old Academy of Sciences Building), 1968

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#34 Moscow station in Leningrad, 1968

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#35 Moscow victory monument on the Moscow Road, Leningrad, 1968

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#36 Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad, 1968

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#37 Russia Hotel in Leningrad, 1968

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#38 Sculptured Chinese lions on river bank, 1968

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#39 The Winter Palace from Palace Square, 1968

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#40 View of the Neva – Admiralty and St. Isaac’s in background, 1968

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#41 A welcoming committee as the ship docked

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#42 A woman cleaning streets

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#43 A woman tram driver

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#44 Cold water dispensers

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#45 Department store

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#46 Leningrad street scenes

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#47 Leningrad street scenes

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#48 Leningrad street scenes

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#49 Leningrad street scenes

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#50 Leningrad street scenes

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#51 Leningrad street scenes

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#52 Leningrad street scenes

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#53 Market stall

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#54 Market stall

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#55 Mikhail Kalinin

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#56 Peterhof Palace

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#57 The Aurora, symbol of the October Revolution, 1917

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#58 The church

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#59 The port of Leningrad

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#60 The press board

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#61 The river beach

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#62 The river

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#63 Trams and cars in front of the Winter Palace, home of the fabulous Hermitage Museum

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#64 A wedding party

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#65 Women roadworkers

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#66 A group of foreign tourists in a bus at the border between the USSR and Finland.

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#67 First stop between Vyborg and Leningrad.

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#68 Leningrad

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#69 The tourists going to a hotel.

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#70 Having a meal at the hotel.

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#71 A guided tour around the city.

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#72 Talking to Russian kids.

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#73 Monument of Ekaterina, the Great

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#74 A motor-ship ‘Moskvitch’

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#75 A square in the center of St. Petersburg

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#76 City neighborhood

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#77 The Grand Cascade at Peterhof.

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#78 Drinking Kvass – a fermented yeast beverage

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#79 Leningrad (St Petersburg) Admiralty, 1963

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#80 Samson Fountain in Peterhof, 1963

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#81 Public library – Saltikov-Shchedrin Library on the Nevsky Prospect, 1968

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#82 A police state

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