Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, in the early 1970s. After being devastated by an intense earthquake in 1966 (7,5 on the Richter scale), it was rebuilt as a Soviet “model city”. (photo: © 1975 Novosti news agency, Moscow – personal collection)
Zaporizhia automobile building plant in 1970s
ZAZ is the main automobile manufacturer of Ukraine, based in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia: its name is in fact the acronym of “Zaporiz’kyj Avtomobilebudivel’nyj Zavod” (Ukrainian: ЗАЗ, Запорізький автомобілебудівельний завод), meaning exactly “Zaporizhia automobile building plant”. During Soviet Era, ZAZ designed and built a series of compact–cars (called “Zaporozhets”) accessible to the public. In this early 1970s pictures you can see some ZAZ-968‘s being assembled in the Zaporizha …