Kharkiv through the lens of Vsevolod Tarasevich in 1958

For the most part, these are classic “street photos”, without formality, pathos, or embellishments, where people don’t know they’re being photographed. Although this photojournalist could hunt for hours for a good angle.

Tynyakov’s Sewing Factory (“Tynyakovka”) near the Annunciation Cathedral

Zhanna Gatsko, who worked as a stonemason on construction sites

Kharkiv Art Institute

A Mark V tank, which was located in the courtyard of the Bishop’s House on the territory of the Pokrovsky Monastery. It was there that the Historical Museum operated during Soviet times

Kharkiv Railway Station

Merchant’s Bridge

Kharkiv Turbine Plant

Cycling track

Kharkiv Tractor Plant

construction

Terraced Square

Il-14M at Kharkiv Airport

Kharkiv Airport

Kharkiv Railway Station

KhTZ tractors at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy

Korolenko Library

Hirschmann Hospital

“watering car”

bus station

bus station

monument to Gogol

photo exhibition in the theater

Hotel “Kharkiv”

Shevchenko Garden (possibly Gorky Park)

“Strelka” park, the trees haven’t grown yet

Shevchenko garden, in the background Sumska Street, 36/38

photo from the roof of the airport

Lopan embankment near Klochkivska Street, 3

descent from the University Hill

Exhibition of achievements of the national economy, held in Pomirky

airport

“Shoeing” of the DT-54 tractor at KhTZ

“school mini bazaar” on the sidewalk in front of the Central Department Store

car racing on Dzerzhinsky Square (now Svobody Square)

Restaurant at the hotel “Kharkiv”

“Ponies cab” for children at the zoo

“Brekhalovka” in Shevchenko Garden

Historical Museum

Central Market

installation of a radio telescope at the Kharkiv University Observatory

Kharkiv University

courtyard, between the KhPI Palace of culture and the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist

Terraced (Cathedral) Square

A square on the current Hryhoriia Skovorody Street, where the Skrypnyk monument is located

Telephone station at the intersection of Myronosytska and Svobody streets

restaurant at the airport

Kharkiv Railway Station

TV studio

entrance from the side of Pisochyn, view towards Kholodna Hora

bus station

Mechnikov Institute, beginning of Pushkinskaya St. (now Hryhoria Skovorody St.)

ambulance on GAZ-M-12 ZiM

Kotsiubynskyi monument. The trees have not yet grown

School No. 116

ZIS-110, entering Kharkiv from the Zhykhor side

Turbine details of the Kharkiv Turbine Plant at the exhibition of achievements of the national economy

washing machine

Second from the right among the spectators in a white shirt is Oleksandr Grigorovich Matskevich, who led a chess club in the Palace of Pioneers.

concert at the KhTZ plant

intersection of modern Svobody and Chernyshevska streets

Kharkiv Railway Station

Motor car of the X series with a trailer car M, the beginning of Moskovsky Ave. (now Heroiv Kharkov Ave.)

Rotunda near Shevchenko Garden (now it is the square in front of Opera Theatre)

Parachute Tower near Gorky Park

first aid to an athlete during a race on the Dynamo cycling track

Rai-Olenivka

Tracked mini-tractor DT-16. Did not go into mass production

children with a dog near the Shevchenko monument

theater

dog competitions

hairdresser’s

trade near the Annunciation market

in the background – Otakar Jarosz Street

telephone operators

Model of “Sputnik-3” at the exhibition in Pomirky

Motorcycle tourist on IZH-49, Dzerzhinsky Square (now Freedom Square)

elephants, Kharkiv Zoo

Tractors DT-20, DT-54 and a baby stroller

“Cascade”, Shevchenko Garden

TV broadcast from the Dynamo cycling track

Hirshmana St., 17 (“horseshoe house”)

Dzerzhinsky Square (now Freedom Square)

sale of bicycles and motorcycles

Bulletin board, Kharkiv Central Department Store

Glass factory glassblower

attraction in Gorky Park