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Amazing photo-collages of Odessa: the interweaving of the past with the present

07 Dec, 2020

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Amazing photo-collages of Odessa: the interweaving of the past with the present

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Photographer Sergei Larenkov combined modern photos with 70-year-old photographs in collages.

odessajournal 0 — Odessa 1944/2012 Deribasovskaya Street. Soviet cavalry passes through the liberated Odessa

odessajournal 1 — Odessa 1944/2012 People welcome Soviet troops in the Rishelievskaya street after the city's liberation from Nazi occupation

odessajournal 2 — Odessa 1944/2012 People welcome Soviet troops in the Rishelievskaya street after the city's liberation

odessajournal 3 — Odessa 1944/2012 Red Army enters the city

odessajournal 4 — Odessa 1944/2012 Red Army enter the city

odessajournal 5 — Odessa 1944/2012 Opera House. The Red Army enter the city

odessajournal 6 — Odessa 1944/2012 Soviet soldiers and kids near the Opera House

odessajournal 7 — Odessa 1944/2012 Lanzheronovskaya st. Soviet cavalry enters the liberated Odessa

odessajournal 8 — Odessa 1944/2012 Soldiers-liberators on the Potemkin Stairs

odessajournal 9 — Odessa 1944/2012 Naval seamen at the Potemkin Stairs

odessajournal 10 — Odessa 1944/2012 Grecheskaya Street, 19. Residents of the liberated city is reading a summary of Soviet Information Bureau

odessajournal 11 — Odessa 1944/2012 Sabaneyev bridge. Ruined music school

odessajournal 12 — Odessa 1941/2012 Barricades at Rishelievskaya Street

odessajournal 13 — Odessa 1944/2012 Romanian bunker in front of the modern Chinese consulate

odessajournal 14 — Odessa 1944/2012 Hoisting the Soviet flag on the building of the New Bazar

odessajournal 15 — Odessa 1944/2012 Gun salute at the monument of Vorontsov

odessajournal 16 — Odessa 1944/2012 Partisans are escorting Nazis prisoners after the liberation of Odessa

odessajournal 17 — Odessa 1941/2012 Monument to Duke de Richelieu

odessajournal 18 — Odessa 1941/2012 Odessa City Hall on the Primorskiy Boulevard

odessajournal 19 — Odessa 1941-2012 Dalnytskaya street, barricade

odessajournal 20 — Odessa 1941-2012 Dalnytskaya street, building barricades

odessajournal 21 — Odessa 1941-2012 Dalnytskaya street, barricade

Photo: Sergey Larenkov

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