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1Gaming Die
1
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1925Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925
1925
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1950Sheep bell
1950
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1950Qairaq (stone castanets)
1950
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1100Mirror
1100
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1001Knife Blade
1001
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1800Tent Door Hanging
1800
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1433Coin
1433
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1855Dutār
1855
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1925Festive Dress of a Hazara Woman
1925
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1400Bowl
1400
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1000High-Tin Bronze Bowl
1000
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1Plaque with Loving Couple (Mithuna)
1
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1801Shield
1801
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1950Chang (jaw harp)
1950
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1950Chang (jaw harp)
1950
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1Fragment of an Ivory Comb
1
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1100Glass Medallion with Molded Decoration
1100
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1600Carpet
1600
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1400Ewer with Lid
1400
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500Ritual Basin
500
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1500Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
1500
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1701Knife (Khyber) with Sheath
1701
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1550Carpet
1550
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1701Khyber Knife
1701
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1701Dagger (Pesh-kabz) with Sheath
1701
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1100Box with Lid
1100
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1155Ewer
1155
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1027Dinar of Mahmud
1027
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400Textile with Processions of Rams
400
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900Bowl
900
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800Bowl
800
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1325Inscribed Pen Box
1325
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600Textile with Boar's Head Roundels
600
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2007Soviet pocket watch (2)
2007
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2007Soviet pocket watch (1)
2007
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2007Soviet pocket watch
2007
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2014Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR
2014
Project
2014Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
Project
2016Ike Edeani records the moments in between during a trip to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
2016
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2018A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
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2020Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek photographs a holiday resort, seemingly only open to Afghan Hounds
2020
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2022Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
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2019How do you advertise a Swedish bank? With Snoop Dogg and Afghan hounds
2019
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2016Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
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2017Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
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2015We speak to Ruvan Wijesooriya about his documentation of a Kabul school
2015
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2012Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
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2018The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
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2014Prill Vieceli Cremers create stunning work for a cultural project in Afghanistan
2014
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2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
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2018“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
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2014Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
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2017A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
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Casearia engleri specimen from Tanzania - P. B. Phillipson; W. A. Rodgers, G. Massawe, N. A. Mwangulango
Project
2017A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
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2020Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
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2012The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012