From stained glass to sculpture, riding the Moscow metro evokes ties to the old Soviet Union.

Traveling in the Moscow metro provides a keen reminder of old Soviet days.  Take, for example, the Byelorusskaya metro station, where visitors may taken in vintage mosaics depicting Belorussians who are happy and content within the old Soviet state.  

In Moscow, some of the vestiges of the old Soviet Union are still apparent.  Far beneath the surface, people may visit an old Soviet nuclear bunker.

Walking around Moscow, one can occasionally spot the old Soviet past peeping out from behind the landscape.  Take, for example, the Marx memorial which has now become a tourist destination. At the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, visitors take in old anti-capitalist posters from the revolutionary period.

Walking around Moscow’s Krymskaya statue garden is an eerie experience, as the visitor is greeted to a seemingly vanished Communist world with age-old dinosaurs.  

Walking around the All-Russian Exhibition Center, visitors are greeted to the sight of hyper-stylized statues which idealize Soviet industrial and military workers, women and even astronauts.  

Outside Moscow’s city center, visitors are greeted to the curious site of the Soviet-era All Russian Exhibition Center.  The site itself is vast, sporting multiple pavilions touting supposed ethnic harmony in the Soviet Union. Other oddities at the Exhibition Center include old Soviet facades touting the authorities’ prowess in animal […]

In Moscow, patrons may visit the original art nouveau house of writer Maxim Gorky which has been refashioned into a museum.  As Russia marks the 100th commemoration of the revolution, Gorky is worth reconsidering.  A keen social observer, Gorky himself worked at many menial and proletarian jobs during his youth.  […]