Soviet Moomin filmstrips illustrated by Boris Diodorov. You can watch them in full here: 1, 2.
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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August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
Vintage filmstrips (diafilm) from the 1980s
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Vintage filmstrips (diafilm):
1. Motho and Mungo (Indian story), 1984
2. The Golden Banded Ball (a story about Vladimir Lenin), 1983
3. Fairy Tale about a Fairy Tale, 1984
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More filmstips in my shop:
Listed these diafilms (filmstrips) today: , , ,
“Mother’s Day” - story by G. Vieru, illustrated by V. Dranishnikova (diafilm, 1978)
(Russia celebrates Mother’s Day on the last Sunday of November.)
French/Russian pocket phrasebook. This was intended for French-speaking tourists who visited Soviet Union ()
Educational filmstrip about mushrooms. Illustrated in by T. Bagina, published in 1988.
Vintage filmstrips from the 1980s
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Soviet desk lamps from 1970s-1980s
via Moscow Design Museum
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov