Valentina Tereshkova eating tubed space food in a flight simulator (1963)
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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Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov during his space walk (March 18, 1965)
Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov performed the first ever space walk on March 18, 1965.
Yury Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934.
Happy birthday Yura!
Leninskiye Gory (Lenin Hills) metro station in Moscow, 1969.
Gorky street (Tverskaya) in Moscow, 1960. Photo by Valentin Mastyukov.
Yury Gagarin and wife Valentina
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.
Maly Kamenny Bridge in Moscow. The sign on top of the building reads, “Ice cream. Made of sugar, milk, cream, cocoa, chocolate, fruit, berries, nuts.”
Photo by I. Avdeyev (1964)
Soda machines were very popular in the 1960s
Dreamer. Young Engineers Club in Moscow (1981). Photo by Boris Kaufman.