Metro station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
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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Moskovsky prospect in Leningrad (1972)
Valentina Tereshkova eating tubed space food in a flight simulator (1963)
Moscow 1953
United States as seen by Soviet artist Orest Vereisky (1960s)
Soviet vintage ads from 1939. Tomato juice, shaped jelly, canned corn, salted crackers ()
Poems by Izabella Grinevskaya (1904)
Leningradets, a 1948 Soviet radio receiver
I really stocked up on these small atlas books, haven’t I? :) Two of these are sold, three others are available (I’ll try to list them tonight). They’re the same map books only with different color covers.
“Attention! Watch our springtime programme.” Illustration by V. Kanevsky, published in Funny Pictures in 1973.
Moscow, people walking by GUM (the 19 century mall bordering with Red Square) (1974)