See construction sites become landmarks and familiar streets change over the years. Each pair follows one place or surviving building. The dates show which Bratsk the camera captured.
In 1960 the concrete structures were still rising above the Angara. The 2026 photograph shows the operating complex: the dam has become part of the landscape and a link between the city’s banks.
The same hydroelectric complex from different viewpoints. The 2026 image shows the station at a later date.
In 1961 the construction site was assembling the large metal structures of the future generating units. The 2016 photograph shows the operating station’s machine hall with rows of installed machines.
The same generating complex at different stages. The historical view records installation work and the later view shows the machine hall; these are not matched views of one individual unit.
THEN1961
1961
Hydroelectric equipment
1 March 1961. Equipment installation at Bratsk dam.
Валерий Шустов / Valeriy Shustov · Wikimedia Commons / РИА Новости CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original ↗
LATER2016
2016
Machine hall
7 April 2016. Machine hall. A later photograph of equipment and structures, rather than a construction-era image.
The long glazed façade identifies the same building. The 2010 photograph shows the entrance area; BST’s 2024 report records the façade, flags and the green strip in front.
Different views of the same terminal. The later view is BST’s own footage from its 2 July 2024 report; the exact filming date is not stated.
THEN2010
2010
Airport terminal in 2010
Bratsk airport terminal on 3 September 2010, with its Airport sign above the facade.
alexandergroshev · alexandergroshev / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 · Original ↗
LATER2024 report
2024 · сюжет / report
Bratsk Airport passenger terminal
The passenger terminal in BST’s special report for the airport’s 60th anniversary, published on 2 July 2024. BST’s own footage, 00:23; the exact filming date is not stated.
The measured drawing published in 1907 records the northwest tower’s walls and plan. In 2022 the same historic structure stands at Kolomenskoye in Moscow, where it was moved from Bratsk in 1959.
The earlier image is a drawing. The later photograph shows the surviving tower in another city; its original surroundings are gone.
THENdrawing · 1907
1907
Northwest tower: elevation and plan
Figure 42–43 in N. V. Sultanov’s book, published in 1907. This is the publication date, not the construction date; a 2026 study revises the tower dating given in the old text.
BST’s archive shows a reporter in front of Bratsk-ART, while the winter report focuses on its upper façade. Pale cladding and the building’s geometric volumes identify the same cultural centre in both views.
BST archive footage published in 2015 beside a winter façade view in a January 2026 report. The original filming dates are unspecified. Compare the building’s volumes and pale cladding; the viewpoints and seasons differ.
THENarchive · ≤2015
≤2015 · архив БСТ / BST archive
Bratsk-ART: BST archive published in 2015
A BST reporter in front of Bratsk-ART in the Addresses of My Memory feature, published on 2 October 2015, at 00:41. The frame is labelled Bratsk Television Studio Archive; its original filming date is unspecified.
A winter view of Bratsk-ART. BST’s own footage in Bratsk in Detail, published on 27 January 2026, at 00:41. The precise filming date of this winter view is unspecified.
The 2010 evening photograph looks down on the Palace and its snow-covered square. The 2024 report shows its façade from ground level: the same large cultural complex remains a landmark on Naymushina Street.
The same building at 26 Naymushina Street: a winter view on 24 November 2010 and its façade in a 2024 report. The viewpoints and seasons differ. This is the present Palace of Arts, not the original 1963 Energetik House of Culture building.
THEN2010
2010
Palace of Arts in winter 2010
The Palace of Arts and its adjoining square in Energetik on the evening of 24 November 2010. The elevated view shows paths and circular flower beds under snow.
alexandergroshev · alexandergroshev / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 · Original ↗
LATER2024 report
2024 · сюжет / report
The Palace of Arts in Energetik
The present Palace of Arts at 26 Naymushina Street, continuing the history of the Energetik House of Culture. A still of BST’s own footage at 00:15 from a report published on 4 October 2024. The exact filming date is unspecified; this is not the original 1963 building.
The 2021 full view shows the station from the town. A close-up in BST’s 2026 report records the upper façade and station name from the platform. The stepped silhouette and blue roof are recognisable from both sides.
Different sides of the same building. The later view is BST’s own footage in its report of 28 July 2026.
THEN2021
2021
Gidrostroitel station
Photographed 18 August 2021, 05:00:57. Gidrostroitel station. A later view, rather than a construction-era image.
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NEW ARCHIVE ADDITIONS
Bratsk preserved in photographs
The old fort tower before 1904, a market in summer 1981 and the operating dam in 1989. These images add to the city’s story, from its wooden fortress to everyday life in Soviet Bratsk.
≤1904
The western Bratsk Ostrog tower before relocation
A photograph sent by the Irkutsk governor in 1904 and published by N. V. Sultanov in 1907, plate XVIII, figure 1. The tower stands beside the church enclosure in old Bratsk. Neither the photographer nor the exact shooting date is stated; the source calls it the western tower without identifying which of the two surviving towers it depicts.
