In a metro train (Moscow, 1968)
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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Escalator of Leninskiye Gory metro station. Moscow, 1969. Still from the Italian movie Sunflower dir. Vittorio De Sica (1970). It was the first western movie to be filmed in the USSR.
“Original ideas come unexpectedly.” Fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev on Belarusskaya metro station in Moscow (1960s)
They built the metro. Chief architect of the Metrogiprotrans Institute Alexander Strelkov, architect Alexey Dushkin and artist Pavel Korin at the Novoslobodskaya metro station in Moscow (early 1960s).
Passengers of Filyovskaya metro line in Moscow (1967)
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.
Passengers reading newspapers in Moscow metro, photo by Gennady Chesnokov (1969)
Lenin Hills metro station in Moscow, photo by Naum Granovsky (1960)
Moscow metro. Photo by David Cook (1969)
Snack café at Park Kultury metro station in Moscow (1960)
Shop girl with tree toppers on her fingers. “House of Toys” store in Moscow. Photo by P. Nosov (1967).