Isaakiyevskaya Square in Leningrad. Photo by Boris Kosarev (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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Bankovsky bridge in Leningrad, best known as the bridge with griffins. Photo postcard by B. Rabinovich (1972).
Skiing on Neva River in Leningrad. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (early 1950s).
The State Russian Museum in Leningrad (1984)
Her and him. Photo by Igor Gnevashev (Moscow, 1963).
Production line for making ice cream (”Eskimo”), Moscow, 1961
New Year bazaar in GUM department store. Photo by A. Stuzhin (Moscow, December 2, 1968).
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Leningradsky prospect in Moscow. Photo by Naum Granovsky (February 8, 1965).
The two. Photo by Valery Usmanov (Pavlovsky Posad, Russia, 1963)
Circus artist Leonid Yengibarov juggles snowballs for children. Photo by Yuri Dolyagin (Moscow, 1965).