Baku, Azerbaijan. Ilyich’s Bay. Oil rigs in the sea (1954)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
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“Winter Motifs”, postcard from 1976
Old children’s books (1970s-1980s)
“Rose in a Jar” by Nikolai Sokolov (1982)
Nevsky pocket radio, USSR 1984
Illustration to Kornei Chukovsky’s book “Fedora’s Woe”, artist Vladimir Konashevich. (That’s the one where Fedora was such a slob that her kitchenware decided to walk.)
“Moscow. Kiev train station.” Artist Veniamin Dorodnitsyn.
New Year holiday show in Kremlin (1976)