Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov during his space walk (March 18, 1965)
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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Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov performed the first ever space walk on March 18, 1965.
Valentina Tereshkova eating tubed space food in a flight simulator (1963)
Yury Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934.
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Famous photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich. Doorman of the Neva restaurant in Leningrad, 1960s. The sign on the door says “No tables available.”
Yury Gagarin and wife Valentina
Dreamer. Young Engineers Club in Moscow (1981). Photo by Boris Kaufman.
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
Photo by Alexander Rodchenko (1930s)
Belorussky railway station in Moscow (1986)