Painting pottery in Kiev Arts and Crafts College. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s).
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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Students of Kiev Art Institute en plein air. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s)
Sovkhoz in Koktebel, Crimea. Preparing grapes for shipping to Northern areas of the country. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s).
St Sofia’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine (1950)
Mushrooms. Illustration by Yu. Fyodorov (1956)
Lounge room at a dispensary. Staraya Kupavna, Ukraine (1974)
Beaver. A children’s poem about a beaver who’s worked a lot through the summer and now his pantry is full, he teaches his baby beavers to build a river dam, and his wife beaver brings them freshly baked bread.
Illustration by V. Legkobyt (1972)
“Welcome to Soviet Ukraine!” vintage poster (1975)
Academic Grishko in rose garden of Kyiv Botanical Garden.
Spring in Kyiv (1974)
Workers’ diner in Chekhov, Sakhalin (Russian Far East), 1950s. ()