Another of my favourite themes on postcards - school and pioneers. I dig the image of the perfect youngster shown on postcards. Utopia with a 50s feel. Also those sepia postcards from the 30s - very interesting specimen from the transitional time from Russian Empire to Soviet Russia. Their haircuts still look like roaring 20s.
By the way, feel free to contact me if you’re interested in any of these postcards for your collection. I’ll explore and come back with a quote.
Pioneers of Sterlitamak (a city in Russia)
Vintage children’s postcards from the Soviet Union, 1950s
“Without newspaper there is no knowledge! Be prepared, read the newspaper.”
1926 poster advertising “Pioneer Truth”, a newspaper for youth. “Be prepared” is pioneers’ call/motto.
“Pioneers.” Porcelain figurine designed by Kazimir Ryzhov and produced at Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (USSR, late 1930s).
At the Leningrad Railway Station in Moscow. Pioneers are going to the summer camp. Photo by Ilya Zhdanov (1965)
Moscow pioneers. Photo by Dmitry Baltermants (1963)
Vintage Soviet clock frame with two pioneers. Manufactured in 1939 by the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.
by G. Valk, 1956 (via )
“Hero Pioneers” - vintage Soviet book from 1961. A collection of stories about young pioneers during patriotic wars.
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov