take a gander at these space-age playgrounds
We here at frankie love checking out quirky playgrounds – like the ones we found in Japan and Denmark – and so when we came across this photobook of playgrounds in post-USSR countries by Zupagrafika, we just knew we had to check it out.
Photographed across Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Poland-based studio snaps pictures of rundown playgrounds built during the Cold War that reflect the space race ideals of the USSR. Used to promote and inspire the next generation to assist the former communist power with space exploration, these playgrounds include planet-shaped climbing equipment, hollow and primary-coloured rocket ships and other cosmic-inspired apparatus.
“Local governments started massive production of rocket slides so that every child could feel like astronauts in the playground,” Zupagrafika says, describing these poorly maintained playgrounds as “only a faint memory of a Soviet childhood”. Check out Soviet Playgrounds by Zupagrafika this-a-way.
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