The Strange Beauty of Soviet Bus Stops

Sep 5, 2015 12:07 PM

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These are wonderful.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a former architecture student, it's like they went to the architecture schools and told the students: "what have you got?" Fantastic!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In America you stop bus. In Soviet Russia bus stop stops you!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Often, these stops were one of the few projects directly planned by the local "soviet" (council). Districts competed to build the best ones.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They didn't know how lucky they were, boys.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Sauce?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#2 oddly looks like pacman to me

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Abkhazia looks like a very strange place. I think I'd like to go there.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

a few good place to do krocodile

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an Estonian, I'd never identify those two first stops as Soviet.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A plagiarization of a book by artists Eve Kiiler and Signe Kivi "A Complete Guide to Estonian Bus Stops".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Russia, bus stops you!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We are in 2015, soviet doesn't exist anymore

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And yet none of Sci-Fi films are shot here.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Almost all of these look structurally unsound. But then hey, fuck it, we're Russia.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It blows my mind how different russia is.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

none of these photos are from russia

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Even cooler

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most of these seem to be in the middle of nowhere. Who's taking the bus to or from these places?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From the looks of some of them, nobody anymore.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Russia just always looks so depressing

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

If you can find the older rest stops here in the US, the ones from the 60s-70s look similar. The utilitarian ones are all newer.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shits rad!! Why don't we have stuff like this

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

#12 is almost orz

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The one looks like he lost a contact lens...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

some of these look like they let "art get in the way of function

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Most bus-stops in most places are nothing but a signpost. Not much function needed.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

To add to this, Russia is fucking huge. 17 odd bus stops means there's like 17000 regular, boring ones out there.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Probably the least weirdest thing in Russia.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

#BringBackTheUSSR

11 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 10

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11 years ago (deleted May 7, 2016 10:38 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

wait you forgot the big airplane noise intro lol

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#HowAboutNo

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 3, 2025 10:09 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I'm Romanian, and I've got real good reasons to be scared :-) #ThankGodForNATO

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

#StopStalinRussia #LeninDoIt!

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

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11 years ago (deleted Sep 5, 2015 10:29 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I get your pun, it just doesn't make sense in this case. If anything, these would take longer to build than the typical North American stop.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

they all look like great places to get murdered... or a fallout loot place

11 years ago | Likes 143 Dislikes 3

no kidding, why is this guy not on fp yet

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because nobody keeps them clean :(

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Looking at these, all I could think of was Fallout

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

or film a porn

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

definitely film a porn

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Or get murdered while looting the places after the fallout.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well.. if I had to be murdered anywhere, I would probably pick somewhere dramatic like these bus stops.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

PLACES TO SEARCH FOR SCRAP IN MAD MAX

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, this is Russia

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

literally none of them is in Russia. There is a caption in the bottom, have you missed it?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

tbh, you'll find bus stops like this in Russia too. Keep in mind the Soviet Union encompassed much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Will not argue with this. But USSR is dead and now there are 15 different countries there. Just wanted to point that USSR is not only Russia

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yeah true that

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh, I live in Estonia

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

and, we just discovered that you have there some cool bus stops :)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didnt know that place existed until now. Thank you Imgur.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And that's why you don't know that Kazakhstan or Abkhazia aren't Russia? Or why you're so slow, fitting right into the stereotype?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

This is mean and I'm not estonian, I just live here

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I m tired of seeing how every country has better bus stops than America...

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

I know! Here we just wait by a sign....most places don't even have a bench

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's how it is most places but no-ones going to notice (or post a pic) of a signpost.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I know....most times I think the bus doesn't notice the sign....

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0