Tramscape Tramway
Photographs
Moscow, Russia
: 9th-10th October
1985
Although trams had
been removed from the centre of Moscow in favour of an extensive
underground railway system, Russia's capital city boasted an
extremely extensive tramway in 1985. The city is now rapidly
changing, and the tramway is suffering at the hands of the road
builders as the city authorities struggle to cope with the massive
expansion of car ownership. A number of locations seen here in 1985
are now without trams, such as at 1905 Goda and on Prospekt Mira at
VDNKH, and the street scenes are now unfamiliar in their quietness
and lack of advertisements. Prominent in the 1985 scenes are,
however, placards proclaiming the 27th Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union.
Photographs by Gordon
Stewart : Click
below
Alexander Elagin has photographed the
Moscow tramway extensively in recent years, capturing lines that are
now closed and lines that have been relocated as well as the changing
scenes around the trams.
Click here to go
to Alexander's website
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