Window shopping. Photo by Robert Diament (1954)
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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Find the cosmonaut. Valentina Tereshkova among her friends, 19 July 1956 (age 19).
orky Park in Moscow (1950s)
Mayakovsky square, Moscow (1957)
We celebrated my friend’s grandfather’s birthday recently (he turned 102!!!) and I spotted this box. She used it to store stickers to give out to kids. :) Originally it contained candy and was made in the 1950s.
Tea Sputniks (satellites) - biscuits, muffin, jam. Vintage poster designed by A. Ioganson (1959)
October covers of Murzilka, a Soviet children’s magazine (1948—1988)
Leningrad 1962
View of the building. You can see neon signs for Aeroflot (left) and a fashion house (right).
Polytechnical Museum in Moscow (1964)
Vintage animal dominoes designed by K. Zotov (1954)
Slavyanovsk mineral water from a Zheleznovodsk hot spring - vintage advertising poster (USSR 1951)