From the history of Moscow streets (1929-1957)

Types of the market in Smolensk Square in 1929 (above).

Sellers and buyers in the market.

A gramophone on one of the counters.

Baggiesters at the counter.

The organ-grinder with a parrot and "tickets of happiness".

View of the city intersection (above), passing trams and cars, people crossing the street.

Types of Myasnitskaya Square metro station and the main post office building.

Frame under construction.

Type of buildings under construction near the Borodino bridge.

Welder-spider on the construction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Smolensk Square in the late 1940s.

View of a high-rise building under construction.

Panorama of the city block adjacent to Smolensk Square (above).

View of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Smolensk Square in the mid-1950s.

Views of the old Smolensky Boulevard in April 1937.

Tram rides along the boulevard.

Children play on the boulevard.

View of Smolensky Boulevard from the top during the reconstruction.

Unloading trees from the truck body.

Planting a tree in a prepared pit.

View of Smolensky Boulevard cleared before reconstruction (above).

Types cleared before reconstruction Zubovsky Boulevard (above), trams go along the boulevard.

View of Sukharev Square and the Sukharev Tower in 1933 (above).

Types of Sukharev Tower.

Views from the window of the tram going around the tower.

Types of Sukharevsky market (above).

Trading with hands on the market, sellers bargain with buyers.

Types of Sukharev Tower clock on the tower.

Types of collective farm area after the demolition of the Sukharev Tower (above), go trams and cars.