Yury Gagarin visiting cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky to celebrate his son Valerik’s 5th birthday. Valerik is playing with a toy robot and a toy planet rover - both toys hardly available for the general public.
This photo was taken shortly before Yury’s death in 1968.
Yury Gagarin and wife Valentina
Yury Gagarin and wife Valentina
Moscow State University (1955)
Soviet doll factory
Famous photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich. Doorman of the Neva restaurant in Leningrad, 1960s. The sign on the door says “No tables available.”
School children prepared new birdhouses for springtime.
Did you know that in Russian, birdhouse is literally a “starling-place”? But of course, any birds are welcome. :)
At the daycare. Notice our old friend Gena the Crocodile. :)
In the park. Photo by V. Lipovsky (late 1960s)
Outdoors. Postcard by L. Khinshtein (1961)