Moscow Gorky park in the 1930s (kiosks sell fruit and soft drinks)
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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The Russian Museum in Leningrad (St Petersburg), 1938
Celebratory fireworks on the Red Square in Moscow. May 9, 1945.
Photo by N. Sitnikov/TASS
Making of “Train Station for Two”, a Soviet 1982 movie (dir. Eldar Ryazanov)
Moscow in the 60s and 70s. Photography by Viktor Akhlomov (via )
“Cake Makers” by O. Yanovskaya (1937)
Title page from the book “The First All-Union Spartakiad” (sports contest)
Artist V. Filippov, book published in Soviet Union in 1928.
The Summer Gardens in St Petersburg (Leningrad), 1963. Photo by R. Mazelev.
Soviet soldiers return home. May-June 1945.
Valentina Tereshkova print (1973)
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