French/Russian pocket phrasebook. This was intended for French-speaking tourists who visited Soviet Union ()
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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Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)
Vintage book “Pusselchen” (Baby Animals) in German, published in Soviet Russia in 1979
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Vintage Soviet poster from the 1970s - USSR anthem lyrics
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A rare Soviet book, “The Way to the Space Begins with Morning Exercise” by Nikolai Kamanin. Published in 1975.
General Kamanin was the head of cosmonaut training in the Soviet space program.
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Vintage railroad map of Soviet Union, 1976
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Elton John in the Soviet Union (May 1979) (via)
Bonus: Elton John: To Russia With Elton (Full DVD)
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.
German-Russian minimal dictionary of electronics, 1978
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The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Yershov, illustrated by Nikolai Kochergin - this 1971 book was published in the USSR in English ()
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov