The early 1980s was the period known as the Era of Stagnation, or as Leonid Brezhnev called it – real socialism. The Soviet leader who had ruled for almost two decades eventually died that year, setting the country on the path to the period of change known as Perestroika.
The Soviet leader, the general secretary of the Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was already very ill. At the age of 76, he was in poor health and often spoke incoherently.
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Leonid Brezhnev rests at his dacha in Crimea
Vladimir Musaelyan / MAMM / MDF / TASS / russiainphoto.ru
A photo that symbolizes the period of stagnation
A.Boytsov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Leonid Brezhnev’s funeral, which passed away on November 10, 1982. The tragic event was marked on a large scale.
Alexander Steshanov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
The letters say USSR, pictured on Kalinin Prospect (now Novy Arbat Street)
Valentin Khukhlayev / Valentin Khukhlayev archive
One of the most popular singers, superstar Edita Piekha, who had Polish parents, and she was the daughter of a Polish coal miner.
Sergei Borisov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Another Soviet superstar, actor and singer Mikhail Boyarsky, pictured in Leningrad. In 1978, the Soviet film “D’Artagnan and Three Musketeers” made him a nationwide idol.
Sergei Borisov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
The first of May celebration on Red Square in Moscow. The Lenin Mausoleum hosted Leonid Brezhnev and other party leaders, as well as Soviet pioneers.
Alexander Abaza / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
May Day demonstration in Chelyabinsk, the industrial city of the Ural Mountains
Yevgeny Tkachenko / Southern Urals Historical Museum / russiainphoto.ru
Huge portrait of Vladimir Lenin on the occasion of Victory Day celebrations in Leningrad
Vladimir Sokolaev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Takes a dip in Leningrad
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Pioneers welcome World War II veterans
Vladimir Sokolaev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Female workers
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Cultural program: Soldiers go to the cinema in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. Every small town in the Soviet Union had a cinema or theater, which was dictated by state policy
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Soviet citizens blush in Leningrad Hermitage Museum
Vladimir Sokolaev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
The Soviet people were very keen on hiking, mountaineering and kayaking.
Sergei Sukharev / Pavel Sukharev archive / russiainphoto.ru
Telephone kiosk aesthetics
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Walking around the Arkhangelskoye Estate in Moscow, a former noble residence, served as a military sanatorium during the Soviet era
Dmitry Vozdvizhensky, Nina Sviridova / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
A wedding in the Gorky region (Nizhny Novgorod)
A.Sinelshchikov / Sarov museum / russiainphoto.ru
Member of a geological expedition in the Komi Republic looking for gold in his spare time
Pavel Sukharev / Pavel Sukharev archive / russiainphoto.ru
The children of the geologists during the same expedition
Pavel Sukharev / Pavel Sukharev archive / russiainphoto.ru
Shared apartment entrance. Before each room had its own bell ring, there were instructions: one bell for one room, two bells for another, and so on.
Vladimir Bogdanov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Five minutes before the exam
Pavel Sukharev / Pavel Sukharev archive / russiainphoto.ru
Beer station
Vladimir Sokolaev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Military parade on Red Square in Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the 1917 revolution
Alexander Abaza / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Sea hunter on the Chukotka Peninsula
Vasily Shumkov / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Motor race
Valentin Khukhlayev / Valentin Khukhlayev archive
On a playground
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Watching a football match
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Pioneers at the Orlyonok children’s summer camp on the Black Sea
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Children jump off a Swedish wooden ladder at a sports lesson
Vladimir Fedorenko / Sputnik
A school class
Boris Babanov / Sputnik
-26 C in Moscow
Alexander Rubashkin / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Soviet students had ski lessons in the winter … and in order not to have to carry the skis, they literally went home from school
Vladimir Sokolaev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Pelmenia meal that united people
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Collection of glass for recycling. Yes, the Soviets were an environmentally friendly nation!
Vladimir Vorobyev / MAMM / MDF / russiainphoto.ru
Prepares handmade toys for the New Year tree
Alexander Terentyev / Alina Bashmakova archive / russiainphoto.ru
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