1950s
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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Muscovites in winter (1959). Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE.
Illustration from Murzilka (1952)
Photo by Vladimir Stepanov, 1960s
Harvesting flax near Kostroma. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1957)
Tatyana Yeryomina, “Holiday Shopping” (1953)
“Buy postage stamps!” - vintage pocket calendars encouraging people to collect stamps (1970s-1980s)
Yury Vasnetsov’s magical winter
Bear in a troika sledge (illustration by V. Losin, 1975)
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.
Shoveling snow in Moscow (1959). Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE.