Rain. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (1959).
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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Cakes and chocolates from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Tea time à la Soviet Union—jam, lemon and Crawfish hard candy (early 1950s)
Minsk - Vintage postcard-sized fold-out photography album, souvenir from USSR (1950s)
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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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Vintage tea box from the Soviet Union, 1950s ()
I have the very same tea box from my grandparents! I use it as my default box for loose green tea. I love it. Mine has less color left in it though, it’s almost silver. I was quite surprised to find out that it was originally yellow. :)
Biscuit packaging, Soviet Union, 1950s (via)
Top: Lemon biscuits, bottom: Orange biscuits
Rubber toys from Soviet Union (1950s) (via Vsevolod Ladifyan)
Visit the USSR in Winter. Soviet INTURIST poster (1950s)
(Inturist was an organization that invited and assisted foreign tourists in the USSR.)
A picnic in the wild. Soviet Union, 1950s.
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.