Soviet space stamps (via)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev. Illustrations for “The Jolly May is Here. Folklore of Peoples of the USSR” (1981)
Chess players in Gorky Park. Photo by Igor Stomakhin (Moscow, 21 October 1987).
At an orphanage. Photo by Sergey Vasin (1941).
Cover of Funny Pictures children’s magazine (USSR, Sep. 1988)
Mushroom harvest in a forest near Moscow (1967)
“Space Fantasy” postcard set by Andrei Sokolov (1965). 24 postcards - full set with cover.
Very rare!
$65 + $9 shipping
How to buy. . I combine shipping if you buy more than one item.
Zinaida Volkhonskaya watering flowers. Murom, Russia (1940s)
First grade girlfriends. Photo by B. Trepetov (Moscow, 1954).
Women’s room at the Galalith factory dormitory (Terekhovo village near Moscow, 1950)
Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture in Leningrad (built in 1925-27). Photo from 1950s.