Soviet Postcards

Vintage Soviet children’s books about space

“Pan Kotski, the Puss-o-Cat” - Ukrainian folk tale, published in 1987 and illustrated by Valentyna Melnychenko (via)

Steps Into Space, space art by V. Viktorov (1971). A super rare set, I’m thrilled to even hold it in my hands! It’s complete too, 32 postcards.

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“Matryoshkas” - doll-shaped book M. Vekhova (1980)

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Vassilisa the Beautiful - Vintage book from 1986, illustrated by Ivan Bilibin
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A rare Russian book, “How the Bear Travelled to Outer Space” by Boris Mikhaylov, illustrated by author. Published in 1973.

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Illustrations from “Rainbow-Bow” (a book of nursery rhymes) by Yuri Vasnetsov, 1969

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