“Peace. Work. May”, a classic May Day slogan in the USSR (Moscow, 1960s)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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ZAZ cars (”Zaporozhets”) on Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow (early 1960s).
Moscow, 1960
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
Moscow’s Gorky Street on January 14, 1960. Photo by Naum Granovsky.
A newspaper stand in Moscow, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1961)
Cars by the Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow (1966). Photo by A. Mishin.
Test run of Moskvich-408. Luzhniki, Moscow (1965)
Leningradsky Prospect in Moscow. February 8, 1965. Photo by Naum Granovsky.
Smolenskaya Embankment in Moscow, view of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Photo by Robert Papp (1964)
“Modern Crime Story” book series published by Progress, Moscow from 1971 to 1991. Each book features novels from a different country (Australia, Hungary, Greece, Kenya, Finland etc. etc.)