Test Your Knowledge: Recognize Kemerovo in Retro Photographs

Over a hundred years, Kemerovo has changed beyond recognition: rotten barracks have been replaced by modern neighborhoods, and dusty dirt roads by wide asphalt avenues. Entire pages of the city«s history have dissolved in time — today they can only be found on old black-and-white photographs. Let»s travel back in time and walk these streets in the 1950s, while testing how well you know the appearance of your hometown in different eras.

In our quiz, we used photos and data from a book on Kemerovo«s history from 1918 to 1991. The publication is available to all interested at the Kuzbass Regional Museum of Local Lore.

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