Sputnik-inspired samovar with teapot (USSR, 1976)
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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Morning street wash. Moscow, 1959.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, pilot of Soyuz-26. Photo by Albert Pushkaryov (March 1978).
Girls bringing bread home. Photo by Viktor Yershov (Gujareti, Georgian SSR, 1971).
Galina Makaveyeva. Illustrations for Yuri Koval’s “The Sparrow Lake” (1991).
Underground pedestrian crossing under Gorky and Okhotny Ryad streets. Photo by Yu. Abramochkin (Moscow, 1960).
School girl. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (Nogliki village, Sakhalin, USSR). 1968
At a bread factory. Photo by Aleksandr Steshanov (1970s).
‘Teahouse Paris’ in Chisinau, Moldavia. Photo by Georgiy Petrusov (1940).