During the postwar years, there was a serious housing crisis, solved by the invention of high-rise apartments. There are about 13,000 of these standardized and prefabricated apartment blocks, housing the majority of Moscow’s population.
Apartments were built and partly furnished in the factory before being raised and stacked into tall columns. The popular Soviet-era comic film Irony of Fate parodies this construction method. These rare and amazing color photos from Pussreboots captured street scenes of Moscow in 1950.
“Kievskaya” Metro Station, Moscow, 1950
Evening Lights, Moscow, 1950
Gorky Street (now Tverskaya Street), Moscow, 1950
Kalinin Prospekt, Moscow, 1950
Mayakovsky Square (now Triumfalnaya Square), Moscow, 1950
Monument to A. Pushkin, Moscow, 1950
Monument to A. Tolstoy, Moscow, 1950
Monument to Karl Marx, Moscow, 1950
Monument to space explorers (Museum of Cosmonautics), Moscow, 1950
Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin, Moscow, 1950
Red Square, Moscow, 1950
South door of 13th-century Rozhdestvensky Cathedral, Moscow, 1950
St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, 1950
Sunset at Moskva River, Moscow, 1950
The Kremlin, Moscow, 1950
The Noveodevichy Monastery, Moscow, 1950
Ukraina Hotel (Radisson Collection Hotel), Moscow, 1950
University on Lenin Hills (University of Moscow), Moscow, 1950
