Paper wrappers for gingerbreads and jellies from Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod] Red October factory (1950s-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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TAG LIST
Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great weekend! I thought I’d greet all of the new followers of my little blog, who are a few hundreds over just a couple days. This Spotlight thing seems to be doing wonders, I’ve been grinning all the time. :)
I encourage all members, old and new, to check out old posts and give them some love. To help you with this quest, I compiled a list of this blog’s most important and most used tags. I hope you enjoy browsing! :)
HOLIDAYS
February 23 — Defender Of The Fatherland Day
March 8 — Women’s Day
April 12 — Cosmonautics Day
May 1 — Labour Day
May 9 — Victory Day
September 1 — First School Day
November 7 — October Revolution Day
December 31 — New Year
OCCASIONS
Happy Birthday
Congratulations (generic holiday)
Wedding Day
Newborn Baby
Invitations
BY DECADE
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990-1991
BY THEME
(I don’t always use all possible tags on each postcard, but I make sure to use at least one tag from this division on each post.)
Viewcards
Funny
Illustrations
Book art
Fairy tales
Fine art
Interiors
Postal (everything about mail and the postal system)
Transport (mostly ships and aircraft)
Food
Harvest
New technologies (a vaguely funny tag: everything from real historic hi tech to robots in holiday postcards)
Nature
Animals
Birds
Flowers
Roses
Mushrooms
Winter
Autumn
Children
Pioneers (they wear red ties)
School kids (they wear blue/brown uniform)
Youth (incl. komsomol members)
People
Portraits
Actors
Hammer & Sickle (postcards that use the infamous Soviet emblem in their design)
Nations (postcards featuring representatives of different nations/races; usually all races together)
Republics (all about the 15 Soviet republics)
Peace (all about peace, white doves etc.)
Coat of Arms (coats of arms of Soviet Union and its republics)
Flags
Lenin
Stalin
Space
Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space)
Cosmonautics (I use this to mark postcards that use space-related elements in design, usually space crafts or cosmonauts)
Sports
The Olympic Games (Moscow 1980)
The Olympic Bear (symbol of The Moscow 1980 Games)
Cartoons
Cheburashka
Matryoshka
Dolls
December covers of Kostyor, a Soviet youth magazine (1950s-1960s)
Sports photography by Lev Borodulin, 1950s-1960s. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10 (info)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)