«100 Years to Lenin», made 1970, Siberia.

Collection of giant soviet signs cut into forests.

Comparative population in various countries. From left to right: China, Great Britain with colonies, Russia, United States, Germany, Japan, Austro-Hungary, Great Britain and France.

Published in 1912, the Nicholas Rubakin’s book «Russia in Figures» contains wonderful examples of vintage infographics.

Comparative strength of different faiths in Russia. Orthodox, Old Believers, Armenian Apostolic, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, other Christians, Jews, Islam, Buddhists, and the remaining

Comparative strength of the peoples living in Russia. Russians (with the Ukrainians and Belarusians); Turks and Tatars; Poles; Finnish tribes; Jews; Lithuanians; Germans; Caucasians and Georgians; Highlanders; Armenians; and other

The professional composition of the Russian population. The relative strength of professions.

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Wonderful photoset of New York in the 1930s.

Photo: Valery Titievsky.

Civil defence exercises in one of the local schools. Novosibirsk, USSR, 1989.

This illustration of the atomic hover express appears in the Soviet almanac titled «I want to know everything!» (1969).

Below is a picture of the oceanic turbo-jet hovership from the same book:

And my favorite one — underground boat «Mechanical mole»:

Russian version of this entry.