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.
Yuri Gagarin in Kazan. Photo by Vladimir Zotov (1967)
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. His first space flight was aboard Voskhod in 1964. He died in 1967 returning from his second space mission, Soyuz-1.