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 spacecraft in 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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“Glory to Soviet science!” - postcard by V. Klimashin, 1959 ()
In the kindergarten
Russian avant garde artist Varvara Stepanova at work (1924) ()
Born on October 23, 1894
Pushkinskaya square in Moscow, 1964
This photo speaks to me. I had a short period in my life when I woke up at 4, got a bunch of newspapers fresh off the print and walked around the designated area to put them up in the reading stands.
Cosmonaut and Grishka, Soviet children’s book, Hindi edition. Author A. Mityayev, published in 1984 ()
Leningrad 1962
View of the building. You can see neon signs for Aeroflot (left) and a fashion house (right).
Large plastic cosmonaut button ()
Cafe ‘Privet’ (Hi) in Moscow, 1964
River Station in Moscow, 1950s
Valentina Tereshkova postcard, 1963 ()