New York : Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro, 1987
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“…as well as nearby suburbs -- Two Buryat schoolchildren ride the tramvai home in Ulan Ude, near the Mongolian border -- Bella Abovskaya, a student at the Odessa School of Music -- At a children's sports school in Volgograd, gymnastics students eagerly swing onto the high bar -- On a balmy spring day in Siberia, retired senior engineer Aleksandr Vorobyov, 63, lifts an improvised barbell in a Novosibirsk park -- Sculptor Ivan Misko molds Olympic champion wrestler Aleksandr Medved's bearish physique in his Minsk studio -- Accordion 101: Students at the Tallin Music School practice while Tchaikovsky looks on -- Adolescent attitude knows no boundaries -- The banya, or bathhouse, is a steamy, convivial place of communal rejuvenation that has been a constant of Russian daily life since the 11th century -- Patrons lather up in the mylnaya, or washing room, of the Sandunov Baths -- Inside the steam room, a man thrashes his friend with a venik, a bundle of dry, leafy birch twigs, to stimulate circulation -- In from the heat: Patrons take a breather from the ornate Sandunov dressing room -- A man gives himself a close shave in a corner of the washing room -- Cool relief from the steam room's stifling heat -- Bus riders in Khabarovsk endure chas pik-the Soviet rush hour -- Commuting Muscovites in the subway -- A flight of fancy on the site of a half-built housing complex in the Troyeshchina district in suburban Kiev -- Ambulance dispatchers wait for the next medical emergency in Baku -- Vladimir Zalensky cares for his bedridden wife -- Army veteran Konstantin Tymchenko and his wife, Nina, pose for a double portrait-with-tulips in Volgograd -- Nadya Tsagirshvili, 78, has been very lucky -- A quiet afternoon at the Tbilisi home of Georgian film director Keti Dolidze -- At home in their balok (mobile home) in Khatanga, Nganasan hunter Stepan Porotov and his wife, Vera, are like all doting parents -- May 15th was Nonna Pokrovskaya's birthday and she asked Day in the Life photographer Nicole Bengiveno to make a portrait of her and her son at the elegant Evropeiskaya Hotel in Leningrad -- Typy Bedotkin's responsibility in Soviet affairs is this herd of 600 Gorno-Altaiskiye goats grazing in the craggy foothills of the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia -- Hunter-trapper Mikhail Degtyarev lives over 430 miles north of the Arctic Circle -- Time and tide wait for no man: Long shadows mark the end of a day at the beach at Sukhumi, a resort city on the eastern end of the Black Sea -- East is East: Eskimo children skip stones on the Bering Strait while waiting for their fathers and brothers to return home from the seal hunt -- And West is West: On a Baltic islet, Raina Laos and her schoolmates collect seagull eggs while their fathers are still at sea -- Pedestrian underpasses honeycomb all major Soviet cities, providing shelter from fierce winters, refuge from tough laws against jaywalking and protection from drivers who rarely yield the right of way -- Naval cadets unwind at the Leningrad Military District Officers Club by following the example of the two gentlemen on the wall, realist writer Maksim Gorki and political strategist Vladimir Lenin -- In a quiet corner of the Armenian Orthodox Seminary in the ancient holy city of Echmiadzin, Grikhor Analyan, a third-year seminarian and piano student from Beirut, and Tatevos Asmaryan, his teacher, fine-tune a musical passage -- A young woman makes an intercity call from a public telephone center in the town of Kazan -- Georgians bearing gifts: These two young men carry lilacs in anticipation of a warm Friday evening in Tbilisi -- The Rod-Stewart-coiffed lead guitarist of the amateur heavy-metal band, Tir (Rifle Range), takes center stage at an afternoon rock concert in Moscow's Gorki Park -- "It's more fun here now," says a Moscow rock-and-roll journalist who was once blacklisted for his articles promoting underground bands -- Double take in Gorki Park: In a strange coincidence, American photographer Paul Chesley snapped a picture of "Jail," the same young bodybuilder who had posed for another Day in the Life photographer earlier in the day in Lyubertsy (pages 136-37) -- Two Moscow punks in the apartment of their friend, an underground fashion designer -- In Fiji, a suburb of Moscow, an amateur band in heavy-metal drag rehearses in a small room provided for them by local authorities -- Upstaged by a movie poster, two Moscow youths sport fashionable rock-and-roll T-shirts: his advertises Bruce Springsteen; hers promotes the Canadian band Rush -- Berlin? …”