Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
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“Music on the Bone” (музыка на костях) was one of the many ways the man fought the system. While a lot of music (especially Western music) was banned in the Soviet Union, bootleggers made illegal records using x-ray film.
These pictures are from the exhibition I visited in St Petersburg. I loved the recreated bootlegger’s room!
Exhibition curated by X-Ray Audio
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
“Cheburashka” hard candy wrapper from Soviet Union.
Cakes and chocolates from the Soviet Union (1950s)
“Cranberry Under Snow” - hard candy wrapper from Soviet Union (1920s)
Biscuit packaging, Soviet Union, 1950s (via)
Top: Lemon biscuits, bottom: Orange biscuits
Sweet bread sticks, a very Soviet tea snack - box design from late 1950s (via)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)