Vintage ads. Poster for gingerbreads designed by S. Prokoptsev (1938)
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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1961
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.
“Soviet rocket flies to Venus!” Illustration from Murzilka (1961)
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)
Cover of Funny Pictures, April 1976
Find the same flowers in the grass as those in the sky. Write in corresponding letters and read the result.
Illustration by G. Sokolov, published in Murzilka in July 1978.
Illustration by G. Praksein (1961)
Moika river embankment in Leningrad (1973)
Space art by N. Kustov (1961)
Leningrad in the 1950s