Tea set manufactured by Baranovsky Porcelain Factory, USSR 1960s
(Collection of Moscow Design Museum)
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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If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info: http://adamuseum.be/expositions-soviet-design-red-wealth/
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)
Porcelain tea set commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union (1967)
Vintage porcelain figurines of wild animals made by Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ) in 1950s-1970s.
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
“Russia”, a porcelain figurine made at Dulyovo Porcelain Factory. Page from the “New Products” magazine (USSR, 1957)
Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Vintage porcelain figurines made by Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ) in 1950s-1970s.
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
Soviet vintage notecard (1984)
It reads “7 October - the Soviet Union Constirution Day”
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Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov