Kronshtadtsky streetcar bridge in Leningrad. Photo by Gordon Stuart (1985).
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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Daycare of Arsenal Machinery Plant in Kyiv. Photo by Nikolai Kozlovsky (1953).
“PVA glue - glues once and for all.”
Advertising poster from 1976.
“You’re not welcome right now, rain, pouring as if from a bucket*.
Hedgehog must hurry - it has a lesson soon.”
(*Of rain, to pour as if from a bucket is a common Russian idiom meaning a really heavy rain, in sheets.)
Illustration from Murzilka magazine, Oct. 1957
“September” by Nikolai Viting (1980s)
Monument to author Ivan Krylov in the Summer Garden, Leningrad (1979)
Types of Russians this year:
- Attack
- Panic attack
- Aktau
(Aktau is a city in Kazakhstan)
(Attack and Aktau are anagrams in Russian in this case)
Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture in Leningrad (built in 1925-27). Photo from 1950s.
First grade girlfriends. Photo by B. Trepetov (Moscow, 1954).
“Golden Autumn in Moscow Oblast” by Irina Vorobyova (1984)
Yerevan. Ararat mountain. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Armenia, 1960s).