Title

Book trade in Leningrad near the Kazan Cathedral, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Book trade in Leningrad near the Kazan Cathedral, 1920-1929. In the early part of the Stalin era, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far East--the Jewish Autonomous Region--to serve as a Jewish homeland. The capital of the region was the city of Birobidzhan. This album includes 274 photographs of the early years of Birobidzhan, beginning in the late 1920s. National Library of Russia

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A12_304

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50,4Mo (1,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,1cm / 4960 x 3552 (300dpi)

Keywords

building people male library job man men religious architecture country religion trade guy occupation cathedral church color st petersburg Christianity column columns pillar pillars Judaism Jewish location century Russia Russian profession concept twenties B&W JEW Jews Library of Congress saint petersburg bookseller Colour USSR Soviet Union black & white black and white B W Leningrad 1920s white and black Soviet 20th century Kazan Cathedral Petrograd TGN Rossiya Rep photograph Unknown Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Sankt Peterburg Congressional Library bookselling Heritage Art still image Chelyabinsk Oblast Meeting of Frontiers book trade