Tea Sputniks (satellites) - biscuits, muffin, jam. Vintage poster designed by A. Ioganson (1959)
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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Cover of Iskorka (Little Spark, a Soviet children’s magazine) - 01/1971
Store #19 in Moscow (1971)
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Moscow Train Station in Leningrad (postcard, 1956)
Vintage postcard published in Leningrad in 1936
Moldavian girl. Photo by Valentin Mastyukov (1960s)
When the first brother gets tired / The other is happy to pedal. / When the second brother gets tired / The first one is happy to pedal.
Illustration by V. Galba (1969)
Happy 35th birthday Tetris! The game was introduced on June 6, 1984.
Tetris was created by Soviet IT engineer Alexey Pazhitnov. It was based on the game of Pentamino that he read about in ‘Science and Life’ magazine. Pazhitnov wrote the game for Electronika-60 computer, it was then customized for IBM PC by 16 y.o. Vadim Gerasimov.
When I was a kid, I had portable Tetris and spent hours playing it.
Have you ever played Tetris (in any form)?
Vintage ads. “Make out of town
daytrips, in the morning and at night.” Poster by A. Sonni (1961)
Lavender from a booklet for essential oil made in Simferopol, Crimea in 1992.