Tiny TV made by the Monolith factory in Vitebsk, Belarus (1975)
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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Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)
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Vintage ads. ‘Elektron’ television set from the Soviet Union (1960s).
Saturday night music: Charaunitsy - Ya Zhdu Tebya (Fulgeance Edit)
Charaunitsy is a Soviet Belarus all-female band from the 1970s
Listen to the original of this song here (1979)
Vintage Soviet poster from the 1970s - USSR anthem lyrics
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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.
Portable radio receivers made in the USSR (via Moscow Design Museum)
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.
French/Russian pocket phrasebook. This was intended for French-speaking tourists who visited Soviet Union ()
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)