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It's 1956. You are 14 years old, and you came with your friends to swim in the Moscow River, near where the city of Moscow stands today.

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It's 1956. You are 14 years old, and you came with your friends to swim in the Moscow River, near where the city of Moscow stands today.

It's 1956. You are 14 years old, and you came with your friends to swim in the Moscow River, near where the city of Moscow stands today.

Photographs from The Elder Hotavich, Moscow, 1956.

Apparently the boys jump into the river from the bank where Krasnia Presnia Park is now. In the background is the nearly completed Ukraine Hotel, a residential building belonging to the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, and in the distance the many floors on Vestanya Square (now Kudrinskaya Square).

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