Plates typical for Soviet public catering (workers’ canteens etc.)
1960s-1980s
via Moscow Design Museum
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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“How the Mighty Eagle Returned the Sun to People.” Nenets folk tale illustrated by O. Ovchinnikova (in Ukrainian, 1962).
Moscow of 1950s photographed by Ivan Shagin
Vintage poster (1973)
“To collectors and lovers of pins!
We invite you to Soyuzpechat shops and kiosks! Here you can always buy pins of various themes and shapes. You will be offered badges from the Leniniana* series, with coats of arms of cities, portraits of great people, images of architectural ensembles and monuments, and many, many others.”
*Leniniana = anything to do with Vladimir Lenin
“On the Eve of Date Night”, poetry book by Vladimir Dogadayev (1955)
Ivan Kuznetsov. Illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (1949).
Vladimir Konashevich. Cover for Kornei Chukovsky’s “The Telephone” (1969 edition).
The art of carpet. Illustrations from the Commodity Dictionary (USSR, 1956-1961).
“Home from school”. Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (1982).
“The North of My Vast Homeland” by Vladimir Shtranikh (1965)
Kolkhoz woman selling radishes at a market in Moscow. Photo by Hans Sibbelee (1959).