The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman statue and the “chicken-leg house”. Photo by Lev Borodulin (Moscow, 1990s)
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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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.
Soviet Union State Library in Moscow. Banners announce the International Philatelic Exhibition - July 1957 ()
Central Telegraph in Moscow decorated for the 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union (1972)
Neon lights in the Soviet Union
Stalinist architecture at its finest - Moscow State University (1954)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia main building, one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow.
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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Soviet Union of the 1960s - photography by Vsevolod Tarasevich. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10! (info)
“Long Live Moscow” - poster by Viktor Ivanov (1947)
The poster reads, top to bottom, “Ancient Moscow”, “Pre-revolution Moscow”, “Soviet Moscow.”
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov