Painting pottery in Kiev Arts and Crafts College. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s).
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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Biscuit packaging, Soviet Union, 1950s (via)
Top: Lemon biscuits, bottom: Orange biscuits
Cakes and chocolates from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Tea time à la Soviet Union—jam, lemon and Crawfish hard candy (early 1950s)
Minsk - Vintage postcard-sized fold-out photography album, souvenir from USSR (1950s)
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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.
A picnic in the wild. Soviet Union, 1950s.
Rubber toys from Soviet Union (1950s) (via Vsevolod Ladifyan)
Vintage tea box from the Soviet Union, 1950s ()
I have the very same tea box from my grandparents! I use it as my default box for loose green tea. I love it. Mine has less color left in it though, it’s almost silver. I was quite surprised to find out that it was originally yellow. :)
November 7 celebrations on the covers of Murzilka (1925-1968). November 7 (the October Revolution Day) was one of the biggest holidays in the Soviet Union with huge celebrations all over the country.
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)