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School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Soviet Union photographs and postcards Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0369 SOV

Held at: School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Title: Soviet Union photographs and postcards Collection

Date(s): 1950-1953

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 slip case containing 77 photographs and 3 postcards

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Fifty six photographs of a visit to the Soviet Union in the early 1950s by an unnamed presumably British delegation, showing Leningrad, Pushkin, Moscow, Stalingrad and Tashkent, including factories, pioneer camps and a collective farm; 21 offically published photographs depicting the Skorokhod shoe factory in Leningrad in the early 1950s; 3 postcards of Lenin and Stalin, 1950

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Captions in English

System of arrangement:

One album

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted access. Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Library, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Librarian.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Online catalogue available on the UCL Archives website.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-school-slavonic-and-east-european-studies-library

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Revised Jan 2003


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Photographs | Visual materials

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Moscow | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
St Petersburg | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
Tashkent | Uzbekistan | Central Asia
USSR | Eastern Europe
Volgograd | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
Leningrad x St Petersburg
Stalingrad x Volgograd