Plastic figurines of Soviet pioneers. Made at the Factory of Art Products in Moscow, 1940.
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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May 19 - the Pioneers’ Day
Soviet Union Pioneer Organization was founded on May 19, 1922
Pioneers in Artek (#1 pioneer camp in the Soviet Union), 1930s. Notice they have pioneer tie grips rather than pins.
Soviet Union, 1940s
Photo by Georgiy Lipskerov
A tiny vintage book in the shape of a train and with Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem “Whom Shall I Become?” quoted inside. Bits of the book cover are glow-in-the-dark. (Soviet Union, 1940s)
“Blue Nights, Rise Up Like Flames” - the main song of Soviet young pioneers.
Written in 1922. This here is a 1949 performance.
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.
June 22, the day World War II started for the Soviet Union, is the Day of Remembrance and Mourning in Russia.
This is my grandfather, who just turned 17 at the time, 4 months after the war started. It’s a tiny photo that came to my posession a couple weekes ago, kindly passed on to me by my cousin twice removed during a big family gathering.
War is not parades. War is not showing it to someone. War is 17 year old boys wearing military uniform, killing and being killed. War is broken lives of an entire generation.
Never forget!
Помню. Скорблю.
Artek, the most famous pioneer summer camp in the Soviet Union. Illustration by E. Gorokhovsky (1985)
Children and their toys (Soviet Union, 1940s-1970s)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)