Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph Soviet architecture
Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from Central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The duo's Soviet Asia series documents architecture constructed between the 1950s and 1991 in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Top: Exhibition Hall of the Uzbek Union of Artists in Uzbekistan. Above: Lenin monument inThe State Academic Russian Theatre in Kazakhstanchor Tajikistan The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a Russian socialist state that governed various parts of Europe and Asia from 1922 unti...