Bus station in Yalta, Crimea. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s)
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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Soda machines were very popular in the 1960s
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
(Love the cotton-shaped lights)
Novorossiysk, a city in the south of Russia (1970s)
Fireworks in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
Leningrad, 1960s. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich.
Vintage ads. Poster for Gematogen - an iron-boosting medicine based on animal blood. Currently manufactured as a solid bar, a very common candy substitute in Russia.
Day care in Taganrog, Russia. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s)
At a seafood factory in Murmansk, Russia (1971)
Labels on the tins read Herring, Mackerel.
Navoi street in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)