Yuri Gagarin in Kazan. Photo by Vladimir Zotov (1967)
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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Orbital station. Illustration by Boris Kyshtymov and Erik Benyaminson (1972)
Griboyedov canal in Leningrad (1960)
“Honor and glory to pilot and cosmonaut, honorary pioneer Yuri Gagarin!”
Cover of Murzilka, May 1961
Novosibirsk in 1966. Photos by Georg Oddner.
May 1—celebrated as the Day of International Solidarity of Workers in the Soviet Union.
Here’s to all of us who work for a living!
Traditional Russian wooden houses. Soviet Union in 1966-1967. Photos by Georg Oddner.
Cosmonauts Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov and Anatoly Levchenko, the crew of Soyuz TM-4 (1988)
Leningrad, a vintage illustrated guide book (1957)
Moscow (May 1978)