Michael-K's photos
Spassk
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Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag (Gulag) camp.
Spassk
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Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag (Gulag) camp.
Spassk
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Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag (Gulag) camp.
Gagarin Monument
Gagarin Monument
Space Walker Mosaic
Cosmonaut Mural
Soviet Workers Mosiac
Soviet Workers Mosaic
Monument Mining Glory
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Hammer and Sickle
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
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This statue stands at the KarLag Museum in the village of Dolinka, Kazakhstan. Dzerzhinksy was from 1917 until his death in 1926, the leader of the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU. The Soviet FED rangfinder camera was named after him.
Paintings
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Artwork by Kazakh painter Karipbek Kuyukov, born without arms as a result of exposure to nuclear radiation from Soviet nuclear testing.
Paintings
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Artwork by Kazakh painter Karipbek Kuyukov, born without arms as a result of exposure to nuclear radiation from Soviet nuclear testing.
Paintings
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Artwork by Kazakh painter Karipbek Kuyukov, born without arms as a result of exposure to nuclear radiation from Soviet nuclear testing.
Karipbek Kuyukov
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Kazakh painter born without arms as a result of exposure to nuclear radiation from Soviet nuclear testing.
Hotel Chaika
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Karaganda in Kazakhstan. The chosen hotel for the Soviet Cosmonaut programme in the 1960s.