CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/1/2017

What makes these bus stops so Russian?

It’s Labor Day weekend, the last big travel weekend of the summer. We thought we’d celebrate with a few photographs from the second volume of Christopher Herwig’s weird architecture blockbuster, Soviet Bus Stops. Featuring 160 color photographs of the astonishing and rapidly disappearing vernacular bus stop architecture of Russia, Georgia and Ukraine, this volume is virtually impossible to put down. Pictured here are two stops in Russia proper: at top is the Automotive Electrical Equipment Plant, Stary Oskol; below is a stop for the Siberian city of Omsk.