Bus stops were one of the only areas that Soviet designers were allowed any creative freedom.

Photographer Christopher Herwig said bus stops were built to help make the Proletariat (working-class people) feel better about their lives.

A lot of Islamic architecture influence due to majority of the countries occupied by the Soviet Unions were Muslim countries, such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

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