ABOUT:

More than 20 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet there are people in Moldova who still use passports issues by the already nonexisting Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

This is also true for the unrecognized republic of Transnistria. Currently in Moldova there are about 200 thousand citizen owning Soviet passports – more than 150 thousands of which live on the right bank of river Dniestr, and over 20 thousand – on the left.

This project is also somewhat personal. Attached there is a copy of my father’s passport, who has passed away suddenly in 1982, when I was only 6 years old. A lot of time has passed, and this passport was for me a memory about the Soviet times and my father. In 2011, circumstances made me apply for Romanian citizenship, and I had to provide documents proving my father’s death. I had to go through many offices and courts until I was told that he is not listed as dead. I was told that it is easier to get a certificate of birth, rather than death. As absurd as it may seem, on paper it looks like my father is still alive, and the Soviet Union continues to live in these passports and people.

• 21 pages
  
• Pictures: 21 photo cards
  
• Year: 2015
  
• 13 x 9 cm
  
• photo cards with short interviews with cover
  
• limited edition of 60 copies
  
• copy of soviet passport