Street volleyball in Tula, Russia (1960s)
(via Vladimir Scherbakov)
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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The first cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (1960s)
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.
Galina Litvinova - Soviet Union champion in waterskiing slalom. Top photo by Valentin Khukhlayev, 16 August 1967.
Soviet Union of the 1960s - photography by Vsevolod Tarasevich. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10! (info)
“Hold high flags of athletic pride of the Soviet Union!” - vintage Russian poster
Traditional Russian wooden houses. Soviet Union in 1966-1967. Photos by Georg Oddner.
Soviet Union in 1966-1967. Photos by Georg Oddner.
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 ads. ‘Elektron’ television set from the Soviet Union (1960s).
Sports photography by Lev Borodulin, 1950s-1960s. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10 (info)