• Front cover of “Soviet Transport” by Ai Hoshino, Tokyo Kirara; softcover, 120 pp, 21 × 15 cm, Japanese/English.
  • Preface spread with Japanese and English text introducing Ai Hoshino’s project on abandoned transport across former Soviet regions.
  • Interior spread: rusted freight cars and overgrown tracks in a derelict rail yard.
  • Interior spread: weathered cable-car tower with a rusted gondola suspended over trees.
  • Spread opening “Kyrgyzstan” chapter with aerial rows of colorful buses at a depot.
  • soviet-transport-ai-hoshino-aerial-railway-depot-sleeping-cars
  • Interior spread: overgrown roller coaster and ferris wheel in a deserted amusement park.
  • Interior spread: beached, rusting ships in a desert landscape; wide view of hulls on sand.
  • Interior spread: industrial scene with Cyrillic warning signs beside a rusted ship hull and metal structure.
  • Aerial view of derelict Soviet tanks and armored vehicles arranged in rows at a scrapyard; from Soviet Transport by Ai Hoshino.
  • Beached, rusting ship hull in a barren desert landscape under a cloudy sky—abandoned vessel documented in Soviet Transport.
  • Damaged Soviet military aircraft with torn control surfaces and faded RF markings, photographed in situ for Soviet Transport.
  • Back cover of “Soviet Transport” by Ai Hoshino (Tokyo Kirara); softcover photobook, 120 pages, 21 × 15 cm, Japanese/English.
  • Softcover spine close-up; Soviet Transport.
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Soviet Transport - Hoshino Ai

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Soviet Transport by Hoshino Ai is a compact color photobook indexing abandoned vehicles and transit infrastructure across the post-Soviet landscape.

  • Title: Soviet Transport
  • Photographer: Hoshino Ai
  • Publisher: Tokyo Kirara
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 120
  • Size: 21 × 15 cm
  • Language: English / Japanese
  • Printing: Color
  • ISBN: 9784903883670
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About the Book

Soviet Transport follows Hoshino Ai across post-Soviet regions to record vehicles and transit infrastructure left behind after the fall of a vast socialist state. The work moves through Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Soviet Transport treats each object as a final station.

The photographs avoid nostalgia and focus on material detail and site context. Soviet Transport shows cable cars, rail lines, aircraft, ships, tanks, trucks, and amusement-park rides at rest. The sequence forms a clear typology of industrial archaeology.

Compact and readable, Soviet Transport works as documentary fieldwork and as a visual index. Hoshino Ai keeps the tone descriptive and precise. Soviet Transport is a strong fit for readers of photobooks, infrastructure studies, and post-Soviet landscapes.

About the Author

Hoshino Ai is a Japanese photographer focused on material culture, infrastructure, and traces of political history in everyday space. The work often maps typologies through restrained, descriptive images. Soviet Transport extends this approach to post-Soviet environments and industrial ruins.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: Tokyo Kirara
Country of origin: Japan
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