Ilyinka street in Moscow. Photo by Vitaly Gumenyuk (1960s).
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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“Peace. Work. May”, a classic May Day slogan in the USSR (Moscow, 1960s)
Kuibysheva Street (Ilyinka) in Moscow, 1961
Operetta Theater in Moscow, photo by M. Trakhman (1960s)
ZAZ cars (”Zaporozhets”) on Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow (early 1960s).
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.
Moscow, 1960
After heavy rain in Moscow. Photo by Boris Kosarev (1950s).
Leningradsky Prospect in Moscow. February 8, 1965. Photo by Naum Granovsky.
Test run of Moskvich-408. Luzhniki, Moscow (1965)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)