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.
Construction of the Olympic Stadium in Moscow (1979)
Soviet art. Spring by T. Alekseyeva.
(Original vintage print available.)
“Help me find another bottle of the same shape”. Illustration by G. Sokolov from Murzilka magazine (1978)
“Where Has Winter Gone” by Vladimir Orlov, illustrated by V. Scherbinin (Soviet filmstrip, 1989)
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Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov during his space walk (March 18, 1965)
Airport by Vyacheslav Stekolschikov (1970s)