“1960s. The Space Moscow” - exhibition in the Moscow Space Museum, open until December 10, 2021.
“Saturn” vacuum cleaner, “Sputnik” shaving machine, “Comet” tape player, and many more space-themed everyday life objects.
I need to remember this for the next time I’m in Moscow!
Children and their toys (Soviet Union, 1940s-1970s)
Rubber toys from Soviet Union (1950s) (via Vsevolod Ladifyan)
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.
Doll dressing line (Soviet Union)
Toy Lunokhod (Moon Rover) from the Soviet Union
August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
Set of 15 vintage stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union (1957)
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 :)
“Music on the Bone” (музыка на костях) was one of the many ways the man fought the system. While a lot of music (especially Western music) was banned in the Soviet Union, bootleggers made illegal records using x-ray film.
These pictures are from the exhibition I visited in St Petersburg. I loved the recreated bootlegger’s room!
Exhibition curated by X-Ray Audio
Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)