Autumn in Sokolniki Park. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Moscow, 1960).
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.
Rain in Vnukovo (a Moscow airport). Photo by Anatoly Morozov (1960s).
Rain by B. Talberg (USSR, 1960s)
Soviet Union State Library in Moscow. Banners announce the International Philatelic Exhibition - July 1957 ()
Ilyinka street in Moscow. Photo by Vitaly Gumenyuk (1960s).
The first cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (1960s)
Vintage ads. ‘Elektron’ television set from the Soviet Union (1960s).
Central Telegraph in Moscow decorated for the 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union (1972)
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Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)