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This sixteenth century map of "Moscovia" features the city of Moscow and its outskirts around the start of the seventeenth century. This map appears in numerous editions with varying coloration and ornamentation.

An animation putting music to the words of famous Soviet children's poet Sergey Mikhalkov, "The tram was number 10" tells the story of an old lady trying to get a seat on a very overcrowded (150 people!) tram, hindered by some oblivious pioneers.

Satirical animation about an architect who designs a beautiful building only for it to be made increasingly bland by each bureaucrat he sees, so by the time they are built, it is just a generic apartment block.

The transition from village life to absorption by the city

A reportage by Stay Wayman for Life magazine

Okudzhava's blue trolley

small architectural forms of ninth block

details of housing design