Свердловск (Екатеринбург) / Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg): 1960s

Свердловск (Екатеринбург) в 1960-е годы Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) in the 1960s Музыка: Свердловский вальс - Евгений Родыгин и Августа Воробьева Music: Sverdovsk Waltz - Eugene Rodygin and August Vorobyeva Here I present a series of photographs of Sverdlovsk, now known as Yekaterinburg, in the 1960s. The city is situated on the border of Europe and Asia on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains During the Soviet years, the city was a powerful industrial and administrative centre of Russia. The city made a huge contribution to the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant was one of the largest Soviet manufacturers of armored vehicles in the war years. In the postwar years, new industrial and agricultural enterprises were put into operation and a massive housing construction scheme was begun.....