#82 Shanghai Architecture Series: Sino-Soviet Friendship Palace (in Russian)

Posts from This Journal “1950s” Tag

• Video from the Sun Court on Weihai Road

  While researching the Sun Court (太阳公寓) for the next Magazeta article, I came across this short video where an old-time resident, Xiong Luxia 熊鲁霞,…

• A Friendly Visit (1956)

  TIL there is a Russian documentary following the crew of a Soviet military cruiser during a visit to Shanghai in June 1956. It has footage of the…

• And I thought working at Shanghai Municipal Archive was hard...

  Benedikt Sarnov on tracking down prohibitied literature in the special depositary of the Lenin's Library in the 1950s: ...Я догадался выпросить…