Zlatoust -- Then And Now

An early 20th-century photograph of the Urals city Zlatoust by the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokhudin-Gorskii.

An aerial view of Zlatoust taken in 2011

A Prokhudin-Gorskii picture of the city from the early 1900s

Zlatoust in December 2007

It is apparent from this Prokhudin-Gorskii photograph that industry was beginning to take hold in the town by the start of the 20th century.

A Zlatoust street scene from around the turn of the last century.

The city of Zlatoust in December 2007

How Zlatoust looked from above in the early 1900s.

A view of the city from September 2004