Family at home. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 1979).
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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Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)
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.
Vintage Soviet poster from the 1970s - USSR anthem lyrics
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Elton John in the Soviet Union (May 1979) (via)
Bonus: Elton John: To Russia With Elton (Full DVD)
Vintage railroad map of Soviet Union, 1976
In my shop: http://etsy.me/2FdR2IZ
Soviet vintage notecard (1984)
It reads “7 October - the Soviet Union Constirution Day”
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August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
Vintage book “Pusselchen” (Baby Animals) in German, published in Soviet Russia in 1979
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Set of 15 vintage stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union (1957)
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)