Help the cosmonauts return to their ships.
Illustration by V. Bochkov, published in Kolobok (Aug 1982).
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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