Woman Finds Over 30,000 Secret Photos Left Behind by Her Mother

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Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan, after her mother Masha Ivashintsova passed away, discovered over 30,000 secret photos.

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Masha Ivashintsova, self-portrait. Leningrad, USSR, 1976.

Woman Discovers mothers photos

Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan, Masha’s daughter, with dog Marta and cat Pusya. Leningrad, USSR. 1978.

Moscow, USSR, 1987

Leningrad, USSR, 1977

Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan, Masha’s daughter. Leningrad, USSR, 1980

Linguist Melvar Melkumyan, Masha’s husband and Asya’s father. Moscow, USSR, 1987

Masha Ivashintsova with her lover, photographer Boris Smelov. Leningrad, USSR, 1974

Poet Viktor Krivulin. Yalta, Crimea, Ukranian SSR, 1979

Leningrad, USSR, 1976

Village near lake Sevan, Armenia, Armenian SSR, 1976

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