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Kiev, Ukraine, 1986

In a scene captured before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a crowd awaits the November 7 fireworks to celebrate the communist revolution of 1917. Now Ukrainians celebrate their own Independence Day on August 24, the day they declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ukraine," May 1987, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Steve Raymer