Vintage railroad map of Soviet Union, 1976
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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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August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian .
Vintage atlas of North and South Americas. Published in Russia in 1977.
Cover of Pavel Bazhov books published during the Soviet Union
Vintage book “Pusselchen” (Baby Animals) in German, published in Soviet Russia in 1979
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Small World Atlas, 1979
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Vintage Soviet navy-themed books. Love the hand-lettered designs!
It was Navy Day in Russia this past Sunday.
September 26 is Viktor Chizhikov’s birthday! He was born in 1935. He’s a very well-known Russian children’s book illustrator, and he’s the one who created Mishka, the mascot of 1980′s Olympic Games in Moscow.
He illustrated over 100 books. Here are some of his covers.
Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)
A rare Soviet book, “The Way to the Space Begins with Morning Exercise” by Nikolai Kamanin. Published in 1975.
was the head of cosmonaut training in the Soviet space program.
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Window shopping. Photo by Robert Diament (1954)