44 Lenin Avenue

A researcher's journey to Siberia

44 Lenin Avenue in a 1917 Photo!

Filed under: Russian Revolution — Wilson Bell at 9:01 pm on Friday, June 23, 2017  Tagged , ,

On June 17, Юрий Черданцев‎ (Iurii Cherdantsev), a former professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University, posted two photos to the public Facebook group, СТАРЫЙ ТОМСК: улочки, дома, судьбы томичей (OLD TOMSK: streets, buildings, lives of Tomsk residents). One was a photo from 17 June 1917, 100 years ago. It depicts a demonstration (one of many during […]

Tomsk during the February (March) Revolution, 1917

Filed under: Russian Revolution — Wilson Bell at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 24, 2017  Tagged ,

The Tomsk Local-Studies Museum (right across the street from 44 Lenin Avenue) has put together an on-line exhibition of photographs of Tomsk from the “February” Revolution of 1917, when Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown. There are many fascinating photographs, mostly street scenes of crowds and demonstrations. Since many demonstrations took place in the New Cathedral […]