“Space” wall lamp (USSR, 1980s)
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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Soviet design
1. Elekma - food processor (meat grinder, dough kneader, mixer, coffee mill) (1986)
2. Electric spinning weel (1978)
3. Ob - home radio receiver (1980s)
(via Moscow Design Museum)
Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Soviet desk lamps from 1970s-1980s
via Moscow Design Museum
Soviet vintage notecard (1984)
It reads “7 October - the Soviet Union Constirution Day”
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If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info: http://adamuseum.be/expositions-soviet-design-red-wealth/
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)
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.
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
(via)
Early 1980s attire for a ski walk (USSR)
(via Moscow Design Museum)
Vintage DIY school help folder (for kids learning to read and count). If you want to play a parent in the Soviet Union and test your cut-and-paste skills, this is your chance. ()
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)