Pilot Galina Chelibanova from Chelyabinsk. Photo by N. Matorin (1969)
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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Holiday illustration from the Jolly Pictures, a Soviet children’s magazine (1965)
Georgian Tea. Vintage ads from the Health magazine, 1960s
Happy New Year! Back cover of the Jolly Pictures, a Soviet children’s magazine (1965)
Irina Shevandronova “At A Rural Library (Readers)” 1962
Chukotka (Russia’s Far East). Reindeer herder Nikolai Etuvie.
Model Mila Romanovskaya next to a model of the spaceship Voskhod. Soviet Expo in London, August 1968.
“It’s Alive and It Glows…” - children’s book by Viktor Dragunsky, illustrated by V. Goryayev (1961)
Sretenka street in Moscow, 1963