
As students in the USSR lived
• As students in the USSR lived
For each phrase, "college years" - a flashback to a separate little life that is filled with the most abrupt change, creativity and energy. Gaudeamus exhibition project - is not just a collection of photographs of famous Soviet reporters about the students. This visual study "epoch to epoch."
Gaudeamus project - an encyclopedia of Soviet-era student life. His goal - to present a collective image of the young man, whose forces were based science, art and social life.


Students of the Leningrad Institute of Cinema. May Day demonstration. The end of the 1950s. Author: Leo Sherstennikov

The students of the Leningrad Institute of Cinema. In dorm. The end of the 1950s. Author: Leo Sherstennikov

Vilnius. State University. In the physics lab. 1960. Author: Anatoly Khrupov



Conservatory Students on Tverskoy Boulevard. Author: Valery Hristoforov

Peoples' Friendship University. 1960. Author: Yakov Khalip
In the postwar period in the universities of the USSR became the first foreign students to learn from the people's democracies. In 1960 he opened the Peoples' Friendship University. Patrice Lumumba.

A new building of Moscow State University. The beginning of the 1950s. Author: Yakov Khalip Now it seems to be something fabulous, but in the 1918 exams in high schools abolished and access to higher education have received all the young people who have reached 16 years of age. The number of universities has increased dramatically, but actually higher education could not get it all. This was due to the ideological and class "cleansing" in the universities, which began in the 1920s.

New Year Youth Ball in the Grand Kremlin Palace. January 1, 1955. Author: Alexander Ustinov

Students. Vilnius, 1968. Author: Anastas Sutkus

Students MAI harvested potatoes in a collective farm near Moscow. Author: Igor Stomakhin
"Potato" was undertaking voluntary-compulsory. Harvesting is done in no more than 100 kilometers from the university, poorly paid and often produced at a very low level.

Student Art School. Author: Igor Stomakhin

Student Training geological faculty of Moscow State University. 1968. Author: Vadim Opalin

Rest with friends. Author: Leonid Lazarev

World Formula. Moscow State University. Graduate students. 1970. Author: Vladimir Lagrange

Moscow. Boring Garden. 1905. Author: Alexander Grinberg

Freshman VMTU Bauman. 1960. Author: Anatoly Boldin

Students. 1970. Author: Yuri Abramochkin