Dubna and Moscow buildings, Moscow through my grandfather’s lens – part 11

This is 11th in a series of posts sharing the photos my grandfather took in 1969 on a business trip to Moscow. For full context, read the start of part 1.

This post includes photos of Dubna and the return trip to Moscow.

Dubna 1969

This is presumably the Intourist tour guide on their bus to Dubna. I originally thought this was in London prior to flying to Moscow, but was corrected by Flickr user mixtara.

User comments:
– This is the same Interiors Soviet bus LAZ-697E “Tourist”

Thanks to Flickr user stopani6 for telling me this is Russia, and mixtara for saying that another photo that includes them is in Dubna, north of Moscow.

I had this labeled London originally and had this comment: “This could be Moscow, but the slide numbering makes me think it’s London. Perhaps a viewer recognizes the clothing styles in capitalist and communist countries in the 60s?”

User comments:
– Of course, it could be London, but ladies and red garden bench came from Russia )) Thank you and your grandfather.for this excellent series!
– This is most likely near the Moscow Pioneer’s Palace (this is incorrect)
– Certainly Moscow (and not London): the wooden bench, babushka’s head scarf and uncut grass 😉
– Thanks to Rob, but I did not write anything about Moscow ))) I only confirm Russian origin of this pleasant family and garden furniture )))

Thanks to Flickr user mixtara, once again, for the amazing ability to recognize this location. The photo was taken in Dubna, north of Moscow. The Hotel Dubna is in the background.

Members of the IEC are apparently walking from tour buses to a speed tour boat (rocket) which would take them back down the Moscow Canal.

Dubna apartment block. Thanks again to Flickr user mixtara for determining the location! Sequentially I believe it is just after the raketa boat, and just before a walking path along the Moscow river that has walkers and bicyclists.

User comments:
– Dubna town. Leningradskaya street, 1

Thanks once more to Flickr user mixtara for identifying the restaurant of the Hotel Dubna in the background.

User comments:
– The photo can be seen the restaurant of hotel “Dubna”

User comments:
– This picture was taken also in the city of Dubna, on the bank of the Volga River (from this place to the hotel “Dubna” five minutes walk, through the alley). A rescue station is ahead.

Buildings

Only two years old and still the tallest free-standing tower in the world, this would have been an obvious sightseeing destination for the visiting International Electrotechnical Commission. “Останкинская телебашня”.

User comments:
– Thank you for those nice photos to be seen. I was up there (1982) and had dinner. now the restaurant is no open anymore

We’re looking north with the entrance to the Red Gates station on the right. The building up ahead has been replaced now and is #28. The concrete building on the left is still there, #3.

In the Flickr/Yahoo aerial imagery shown in 2011, the small building on the left was still there (now a patch of grass), and the new building that replaced the house was still under construction. Thanks to Flickr user mixtara for figuring out the location.

User comments:
– Kirovsky proezd, now Myasnitsky proezd. House demolished. Lermontovskaya metro station is on the right. Very interesting photo. Thanks!
– I’m guessing, probably built in the Stalin times.
– House built before 1917
– Likely to “Сlassicism”. The house was built before the revolution in Tsarist Russia. Buildings in “Stalin’s Empire style” built between 1933 and 1955.
– Like a lot of buildings in central Moscow.

I love the Chinese-style Cyrillic writing. Google Street View in 2011 showed that they’re now done in gold. Built 1895.

User comments:
– Love these slides — and I love this tea place. During my last stay in Russia I certainly frequented the shop for great loose leaf tea!
– Arabic-style Cyrillic writing is also beautiful…

The plaque on the wall says “Here at the home of Dmitry Venebitinov, Aleksandr Pushkin first read Boris Godunov, 1826” It was October 20, 1826. He had finished it in exile and back in Moscow read it to friends. It was finally published a few years later.

The building is still here today (2011) and is gray and haggard.

User comments:
– Krivokolennyi pereulok 4s1

Thanks again to Flickr user mixtara for identifying this building, which I did not recognize.

User comments:
– I think Brezhnev had an apartment here.
– No. Brezhnev flat was on Kutuzoffsky prospect. My friend lived near.

Further reading

• Moscow 1969 Part 1, context and Red Square
• Moscow 1969 Part 2, Pioneer Palace and Novdevichy
• Moscow 1969 Part 3, Rossiya Hotel and Hotel Moscow
• Moscow 1969 Part 4, Bolshoi Theatre and Theatre Square
• Moscow 1969 Part 5, subways and buses
• Moscow 1969 Part 6, space museum
• Moscow 1969 Part 7, VDNKh and Archangelskoe
• Moscow 1969 Part 8, Kremlin
• Moscow 1969 Part 9, Moscow River
• Moscow 1969 Part 10, Kotelnicheskaya and MGU
• Moscow 1969 Part 12, Lermontov and street vendors
• Sweden’s Atomic energy, 1960s photos and pamphlets
• And, until I cancel my Flickr account, here’s a link to photos by my grandfather from other cities around the world.