Moscow then and now – interactive with photographs from the Guardian archive

To get a truer sense of how Moscow has developed since the 1970s, we looked back through the Guardian’s photographic archives – now housed in the GNM Archive – then commissioned photographer Maria Ionova-Gribina from Salt Images to take a series of pictures from the same viewpoints.

In some cases, what’s striking is not so much what has changed as what looks exactly the same – aside from the clothes and hairstyles, of course. In other images, look out for the appearance of a new statue, Coca-Cola sign or – no surprise this – large traffic jam.

• Читать эту статью по-русски

• Twenty-five years after my first visit, how has Moscow changed?
  

GUM, 1973, shot by Robert Smithies for The Guardian and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Crossing the road, 1990, shot by Graham Turner for The Guardian and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Gorky Park, 1991, shot by Graham Turner for The Guardian and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Beriozka hard currency shop, 1990, shot by Graham Turner for The Guardian and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Hotel Cosmos in Moscow, 1990 shot by Denis Thorpe for The Guardian, and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Ski slopes in front of the university, 1973 shot by Robert Smithies for The Guardian, and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images

Garden Ring from Novinsky boulevard, 1991 shot by Graham Turner for the Guardian and shot recently by Maria Ionova-Gribina/Salt Images