“The Girl with a Hatbox” movie poster by Semyon Semyonov-Menes. USSR, 1927.
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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“To have more one must produce more. To produce more one must have more knowledge.” Soviet poster with education propaganda (1920s)
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Soviet art. Winter Twilight by Vera Mylnikova (1982)
Illustration by Viktor Chizhikov (1973)
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)
Tamara Fomichyova, AN-2 pilot in Krasnodarsky krai of Russia. Works in agriculture. Photo by I. Zhuravlyov, published in Rabotnitsa (’Working Woman’) magazine in 1974.
Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov performed the first ever space walk on March 18, 1965.