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Bikini Girls of Soviet Russia

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Initially rather puritan, Russian swimsuits became more revealing and provocative over time. Both somewhat ugly and at the same time charming, this is what Soviet women's swimwear looked like.

Initially rather puritan, Russian swimsuits became more revealing and provocative over time. Both somewhat ugly and at the same time charming, this is what Soviet women's swimwear looked like.

© Sputnik / SokolovMembers of the "Olympus" shaping club in Leningrad, USSR.
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Members of the "Olympus" shaping club in Leningrad, USSR.
© Sputnik / Oleg LastochkinModels wearing swimsuits designed by Alexander Ovchinnikov.
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Models wearing swimsuits designed by Alexander Ovchinnikov.
© Sputnik / Vladimir VyatkinA contestant in a synchronous swimming event.
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A contestant in a synchronous swimming event.
© Sputnik / Yuri AbramochkinYalta, Crimea's Black Sea coast.
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Yalta, Crimea's Black Sea coast.
© Sputnik / E. AlessinMorning exercises at the "Artek" All-Union Young Pioneer Camp.
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Morning exercises at the "Artek" All-Union Young Pioneer Camp.
© Sputnik / Yuri AbramochkinPeople sailing on a yacht.
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People sailing on a yacht.
© Sputnik / Igor BoykoEkaterina Mescheryakova, the second runner-up at the "Miss USSR 1989" beauty pageant.
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Ekaterina Mescheryakova, the second runner-up at the "Miss USSR 1989" beauty pageant.
© Sputnik / Vladimir AkimovPeople relaxing at the beaches of Gurzuf in Crimea, USSR.
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People relaxing at the beaches of Gurzuf in Crimea, USSR.
© Sputnik / A.IvanovNeptune Day celebration at the "Sputnik" youth camp.
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Neptune Day celebration at the "Sputnik" youth camp.
© Sputnik / Igor UtkinA water ballet performace called "Russian Pearl".
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A water ballet performace called "Russian Pearl".
© Sputnik / PanovA girl stands on a sea shore wearing a yellow swimsuit in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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A girl stands on a sea shore wearing a yellow swimsuit in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
© Sputnik / Miroslav MurazovA beach in Sochi.
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A beach in Sochi.
© Sputnik / Alexey DitjakynIlmira Shamsutdinova, second runner-up at the "Pearl of Russia" beauty pageant.
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Ilmira Shamsutdinova, second runner-up at the "Pearl of Russia" beauty pageant.
© Sputnik / Anatoliy GaraninPeople doing morning exercises. Crimea's Black Sea coast, USSR, 1954.
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People doing morning exercises. Crimea's Black Sea coast, USSR, 1954.
© Sputnik / David SholomovichVisitors of the Moskva Pool in Moscow, the largest open air swimming pool in the world at the time.
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Visitors of the Moskva Pool in Moscow, the largest open air swimming pool in the world at the time.
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