White nights in Leningrad. Photo by V. Akmolov (1975)
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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Photo by Nina Sviridova & Dmitry Vozdvizhensky
Moscow State University (1955)
Valentina Tereshkova eating tubed space food in a flight simulator (1963)
Neon lights in the Soviet Union
Yury Gagarin and wife Valentina
Enamel cigarette cases designed at Pavel Ovchinnikov’s manufactory (Russia, end of 19th cent.)
Moskovsky prospect in Leningrad (1972)
Metro station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
Find the same flowers in the grass as those in the sky. Write in corresponding letters and read the result.
Illustration by G. Sokolov, published in Murzilka in July 1978.
United States as seen by Soviet artist Orest Vereisky (1960s)