Sputnik podstakannik (glass holder), 1960s
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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Otto Schmidt and Ivan Papanin walk from the N-172 plane. The first high-latitude air expedition. Photo by Yakov Khalip (1937).
Vladimir Konashevich. Cover for Kornei Chukovsky’s “The Telephone” (1969 edition).
“The Rustle of Leaves” by Yuri Raksha (1978)
“Mail Woman” by Yelena Kostenko (1954)
At a bread factory. Photo by Aleksandr Steshanov (1970s).
Sputnik-inspired samovar with teapot (USSR, 1976)
“Space Flights and Physical Culture of Youth” by A. Egolinsky (1967)
Morning street wash. Moscow, 1959.
“On the Eve of Date Night”, poetry book by Vladimir Dogadayev (1955)
“Three from Prostokvashino” (1978)