Yerevan Soviet Photo Book, 1960s, Linen Cover

A hardcover photo book documenting Yerevan, capital of the Armenian SSR, bound in natural linen with a circular color photograph inset on the cover showing a bronze monument before a neoclassical building, and a trilingual title block in Armenian, Russian, and English. Interior spreads feature full-bleed and multi-image color photography of the city's streets, public institutions, modernist civic buildings, and ancient stone sculpture, with captions in all three languages throughout.

By the 1960s Yerevan had been remade into a showpiece Soviet republic capital, its center rebuilt in Armenian pink tuff stone according to architect Alexander Tamanyan's 1924 radial master plan. Books like this were produced for international visitors and diaspora Armenians alike, projecting a city that was simultaneously ancient and aggressively modern, an argument in photographs that Soviet Armenia was thriving.

Good vintage condition. Linen cover shows light soiling and edge wear. Binding solid. Interior pages clean with vivid color photography throughout. All pages intact.