Новокузнецк / Novokuznetsk in the 1930’s

Новокузнецк в 1930-х годах Novokuznetsk in the 1930’s Here I present a series of photographs of the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk located in Kemerovo Oblast in south-western Siberia. The city was founded as a fort in 1618 and was first known as Kuznetsky ostrog (Кузне́цкий острог). In 1622 it became the seat of Kuznetsky Uyezd and was granted town ststus in 1689. It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva (1857). Joseph Stalin’s rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union