“In the Baltic countries and the former Soviet Union there was a lot more creativity in the bus stops than in Western Europe. I was quite amazed at how imagination was going into these edifices. In each town they’d put their own individual touch onto their local bus stop by hiring local artisans to decorate them. A lot of the architecture in the former Soviet Union is quite conservative and functional. What amazed me was that some of these shelters were not functional at all… A lot of these bus stops are in the absolute middle of nowhere, on some country road where there isn’t even a town close by. Some of them aren’t being used anymore and are run down and falling apart. I want to capture them before they’re lost forever.”

Here are a few samples. You can see them all at http://herwigphoto.com/. It’s a flash site so I can’t give a direct link to the page, you’ll have to go there and then click on Soviet Bus Stops and choose photos.

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This has brought to mind the Unst Bus Shelter, see here.