How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space
Artists from the Soviet Union didn’t just imagine a worker’s Utopia on Earth. They also thought that the great communist experiment would eventually reach other worlds, too. Here are some incredible works of art and conceptual design that put the Soviet Union in space.
Station Moon, a Soviet children’s book by Pavel Klushantsev, 1965 and 1974
The Moon Station Dome, by Andrei Sokolov
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An untitled work of V. Burmistrov
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Journey Into Cosmos, written by M. Vasilijev, illustrated by A.S.Sysoyev, N.V. Shchelznyaka and N.M. Kolchitskogo, 1958
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A mining facility on the Moon, from The Milestones of the Space Epoch, 1967, by M. Vasiliev
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A city and a superhighway, by Sergei Gavrish
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A community under the surface of Moon, from Tekhnika Molodezhi
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From the cover of Tekhnika Molodezhi (Youth Technics), September 1964
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A base with a circular tunnel, by N. Kolchitsky, 1949
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A miniature Moon base from the cover of Tekhnika Molodezhi (Youth Technics), August 1953
Bonus: An illustration from Soviet Cities on the Moon?, an article from Science Digest, February 1958
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I actually think these are pretty cool. I don’t think moon bases could be achieved via soviet-style communism, but that didn’t stop these artists dreaming. I recognize good old “Space 1999” here too, and a few other sixties British shows like Thunderbirds and that genre.