Soviet toys. Photos from the Toy Museum in Nizhny Novgorod.
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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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.
“Winter is Leaving”. Illustration by Ivan Semyonov. Published in Funny Pictures magazine, March 1973.
In the park. Photo by V. Lipovsky (late 1960s)
“Where Has Winter Gone” by Vladimir Orlov, illustrated by V. Scherbinin (Soviet filmstrip, 1989)
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Children usually ate at a separate table during large dinners.
“Our Aviation” by Alexander Deyneka (book cover, 1939)
Belorussky railway station in Moscow (1986)