by Mark | Dec 5, 2019 | Architecture, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Transnistria, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates
Ten of the coolest bus terminals we have seen on our travels It was a recent trip to Abu Dhabi that inspired me to look through our archive of photos and see if I could muster up enough images to create a post about bus stations. I know what you are thinking, and I...
by Mark | Nov 29, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan, Transnistria, Ukraine
As we have a particular interest in visiting the countries and territories that once formed the USSR, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, we thought it would be beneficial to create a short history of how this vast empire came into being and what...
by Mark | Sep 13, 2019 | Abkhazia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Transnistria, Ukraine
Mosaics of the former USSR – the iconic works of art that are part of Soviet cultural heritage We’ve always admired Soviet-era mosaics when we come across them in the past but, lately, and in particular in Moldova and the breakaway de facto state of...
by Kirsty | Jun 13, 2019 | Georgia, Street Art
Where to find Tbilisi’s best street art and graffiti, including a location map This is going to be an unashamedly photo-based post featuring some of the street art and graffiti we’ve seen in Tbilisi. As with many former Soviet or Communist countries, Georgia’s...
by Mark | Apr 22, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine
Soviet modernism is an extraordinary and imaginative genre of architecture. I’m fascinated by it and even Kirsty is often astonished by some of the examples I drag her off to see! But I suspect that not everyone knows what Soviet Modernism implies so let me first...
by Mark | Mar 27, 2019 | Georgia
There was a lot of suspicion and paranoia kicking around during the time of the USSR and in order to ensure that artistic-types, especially writers, filmmakers etc., toed the party line, the committee members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) did away...
