Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957
Listen to its radio signal, beep… beep…
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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I put together this collection of Soviet space-themed stamps! It includes 96 stamps and 5 minisheets. Available here:
“Soviet space exploration” - boxed set of 6 space pins from 1970s ()
April 12 - Cosmonautics Day
Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
Alexey Leonov, first man to space walk
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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You may have noticed that many of the Soviet space-themed pins are pentagon shaped. Why is that? The pentagon shape is a reference to the Moon pennant that was sent to the Moon on Luna-2 spacecraft in 1959.
Collection of Soviet space stamps (29 stamps and 3 souvenir minisheets)
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“Today and Tomorrow of Space Science” (1986)
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New space pins in my shop ()
Vintage space themed envelope (1992)
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Illustrations from “Rainbow-Bow” (a book of nursery rhymes) by Yuri Vasnetsov, 1969