Kievskaya metro station in Moscow. Photo by
Henri Cartier-Bresson (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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Vacuum cleaning Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow (1955)
Muscovites in winter (1959). Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE.
Vnukovo airport in Moscow (1951)
Shoveling snow in Moscow (1959). Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE.
Vadkovsky alley in Moscow (1965)
By the newspaper stand on Sverdlov Square (Teatralnaya Square). Moscow, 1961.
Moscow 1965. You can see Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Ostankino TV tower is being built.
Escalator of Leninskiye Gory metro station. Moscow, 1969. Still from the Italian movie Sunflower dir. Vittorio De Sica (1970). It was the first western movie to be filmed in the USSR.
Druzhba cafe (”Friendship”) in Moscow. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand, 1950s.
Conservatory students perusing sheet music at a music shop (1959)