Coal miners hold a rally in front of the communist headquarters in Donetsk during the coal miner general strike in the industrial Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. In early 1991 following decades of C...

People walk through a Government GUM department store, displaying both Soviet and American flags, although the shops are mostly closed.

A woman stops beside a pavement stall selling oranages

Crowds waiting to buy ice cream at a popular ice cream parlor.

People queue to buy sausages in a butcher's shop.

Shoppers outside a newly opened branch of luxury perfumier Lancome. Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika policies allowed western brands such as Lancome and others to begin doing business in S...

Shoppers outside a newly opened branch of luxury perfumier Lancome. Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika policies allowed western brands such as Lancome and others to begin doing business in S...

People buying fruit and vegetables from a pavement stall.

People queue to buy bread at a bakery.

A group of women look at western movie and pip-up posters in a shop window display. They include a movie poster for Rambo III and a poster featuring 1980s glamour model and minor pop start Samantha Fo...

A woman makes a call from a public telephone booth outside a newly opened branch of luxury perfumier Lancome. Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika policies allowed western brands such as Lanco...

People queue in the rain to buy shoes.

People queue outside a shop to buy food.

Economics student, Vitalii Smahluk (20), works on his laptop in the underground bunker where he has been living since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Economics student, Vitalii Smahluk (20), works on his laptop in the underground bunker where he has been living since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.