Birch catkins engraving by A. Borodin (1971)
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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My mom’s vintage boxes for buttons and thread.
Children playing in an indoors sandbox. Murmansk, a city in Russia lying above the Arctic Circle (1971)
Photo by Nina Sviridova & Dmitry Vozdvizhensky
Novorossiysk, a city in the south of Russia (1970s)
Soviet art. Spring At The Drill Site by V. Yanke.
Soviet art. Spring by T. Alekseyeva.
(Original vintage print available.)
“Winter is Leaving”. Illustration by Ivan Semyonov. Published in Funny Pictures magazine, March 1973.
March. Illustration by G. Nikolsky.
Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street in Moscow
Airport by Vyacheslav Stekolschikov (1970s)