Russia’s History through Photographs

История России в фотографиях

The Russia’s History through Photographs project is an an open and public photo archive, which spans almost half a century of Russian history. Here you will find professional and amateur photographs taken in Russia in the period from 1860 to 1999. The project brings together images from different sources.  Any user can use the archive, uploading photos to the site of the home of photo albums.

There are over 70,000 photographs in the archives collection.

“Moscow’s Multimedia Art Museum and Yandex — the country’s largest search engine — recently joined forces to launch an online photo bank that is ridiculously massive, bringing together photographs not only from museums and public archives but also from personal collections across the world’s largest nation.” Continue reading here.