Comprised of photographs from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Estonia and the disputed region of Abkhazia, Herwig’s recent book Soviet Bus Stops is the most comprehensive survey of Soviet bus stop design in print. The designs he reveals are as daring as they are unexpected.

“I’d never seen such a variety of creative expression applied to a public structures before,” say Herwig. “The designers pushed the limits of their imaginations. They did not hold back and sometimes, maybe, even they went too far!”