The port of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, in a 1975 picture. On the foreground one can see the bell tower of the St. Olaf’s Church. The tower is 124 meters tall, it is one of the tallest tower in Europe and a symbol of Tallinn. At that time (and for the whole soviet period, 1944-1991) the church was closed and the Soviet KGB used it as …
Girls bathing in Palanga (Lithuania) in 1975
1975: girls bathing in the Baltic Sea near Palanga, in Lithuania. Also at the times of the Soviet Union, Palanga was the major seaside resort town of Lithuania, and remains so today: for this reason it is nicknamed vasaros sostinė, that means “summer capital”. (photo: © 1975 Novosti news agency, Moscow – personal collection)
