USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1960s and 1980s (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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Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Soviet design
1. Elekma - food processor (meat grinder, dough kneader, mixer, coffee mill) (1986)
2. Electric spinning weel (1978)
3. Ob - home radio receiver (1980s)
(via Moscow Design Museum)
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 :)
The first cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (1960s)
Vintage ads. ‘Elektron’ television set from the Soviet Union (1960s).
Mixed lot of forest-themed stamps: trees, berries, mushrooms, and ferns. 1960s to 1980s.
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Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
“Tea is good for growns ups and children. For those who are healthy and those on a diet.” Soviet matchbox label (1962)
I find it interesting that in 1962 in the Soviet Union being on a diet meant you had health problems.
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)