‘Metropolitan’. Map of the Moscow metro. Photo by Alexander Rodchenko (1930s)
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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Dinamo metro station in Moscow (1941)
Moscow of the 1950s. Photo by V. Chemeris.
Moscow State University (1955)
Neon lights in the Soviet Union
Yury Yakovlev as tsar Ivan the Terrible in “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession” (1973)
1950s
Photo by Alexander Rodchenko (1930s)
Entrance to the Kaluzhskaya metro station (current name Oktyabrskaya) in Moscow. Photo by Lawrence Monthey (1959).
Dreamer. Young Engineers Club in Moscow (1981). Photo by Boris Kaufman.
Preobrazhenskaya square in Moscow, 7 November 1985. Photo by A. Ladei.