BACK INTHE USSR. SOVIET

Bus stops are normally mundane structures, standardized and replaceable and therefore scarcely paid any attention. However, on the c ountry roads of the former Soviet republics there are many unexpected waiting zonesa wide-ranging panoply of socialist architecture .The photographer Peter Ortner shows a small selection of such bus stops in this book. The photographs were taken both in Central As ia and in Eastern Europe, from Uzbekistan to Armenia, and illuminate the imaginative variations on this vernacular architecture. His shots pr...[Read more]