“Flowers on the Bench” by Pyotr Konchalovsky (1954)
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 art. “Before May Day” by Olga Deyneko (early 1950s)
The large letters read 1 May.
Soviet art. “Sevastopol Bay” by Valentin Polyakov (1959).
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.
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Set of 15 vintage stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union (1957)
“Autumn Flowers” by Vera Dovgalevskaya (USSR, 1950s)
“Home Land” by Ural Tansykbayev, vintage print 1950s
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“Ice Skaters. Dinamo Ice Rink” by Boris Shatilov (USSR, 1950s)
Soviet Union in the early 1950s (Yalta, Moscow) (via)
Soviet art. “Back to School” by Mikhail Roiter (1956)
Soviet art. “Bullfinches. Daycare.” Nikolai Ulyanov (1964)