Motorway. Photo by Romualdas Rakauskas (Lithuania, 1964)
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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“At the Duck Farm” by Mikhail Zautrennikov (1965)
“Kiosk On the Corner” by Vadim Bobrov (1950s)
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Summer outing in Serebryany Bor [Silver Forest], Moscow (1961)
“The Call” by V. Zhuravlyov (1929)
“Touritst’s First Book” by G. Bergman, cover by P. Pokarzhevsky (1927)
“Young Physicist in Pioneer Camp” by Yakov Perelman, cover by E. Voishvillo (1941)
“What’s Wrong With Me” as published in Murzilka #4, 1944. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin.
“I could walk along the sunny wall. I could lie in the sunny window. I could kip at my mother’s side or drink some cool milk. I could get crazy and run around, make some noise. But here I am, not making a move or even a yawn. Not moving my tail even. Guys, what’s wrong with me? Am I ill?”
Komsomolsky residential district in Kyiv, Ukraine (1980)
Self-portrait in a courtyard of Baku, Azerbaijan, photo by Gueorgui Pinkhassov (1976)
The first cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (1960s)