Grocery Stores of the VDNKh

Dmitry Ivanov. 2016. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. The Grocery Store.
The buiding was constructed in 1954 as the trade pavilion of the Glavkonserv (the Main Directorate of the Packing Industry), in 1958—1959 it was used as the exhibition hall Preserved Food, in 1959 it was restructured for a grocery store.

The location of the building depicted on the photograph:

Fire Engines: PMG-1

The PMG-1 (Russian: ПМГ-1) fire engine based on the GAZ-AA truck was the most widespread Soviet fire truck of 1930s.
Currently the most of the PMG-1 trucks are lost; this museum specimen is kept at a fire station in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia


Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
A Soviet PMG-1 fire engine.

The Sentry

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
A private of the Kremlin Regiment at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden, Moscow, Russia.

The location of the post depicted on the photograph:

Saint George attributed to Vasili Yermolin

From the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
Saint George. A fragment of the destroyed sculpture. 1464 (?). Coloured stone. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

The statue was a decoration of the Frolovskaya Strelnitsa (barbican) of the Moscow Kremlin and, later, of the Spasskaya Tower (initially the Frolovskaya Tower) built in 1491 at the site of the demolished barbican.
It was believed that the statue was sculpted by Vasily Yermolin, who was known as a merchant and contractor. Now reseachers call this attribution in question: Yermolin was the purchaser, but not the author of the sculpture. Most probably, the statue was created by masters from Italy.