Towards the finish line. Postcard by Ya. Titov (1957).
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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Happy New Year! Postcard by A. Laptev (1958).
V. Panov, engineer of the transport detachment of the 4th Antarctic expedition. Photo by A. Kapitsa (Antarctica, 1959).
Library reading hall in Sokolniki park, Moscow (late 1940s)
“My Minsk” by Mai Dantsig (1967)
Cover of Kolobok magazine, December 1974
“Working City” by Viktor Zaretsky (1979)
Vladimir Zarubin’s postcards (aka the cutest postcards in existence) featuring hares / rabbits. These are all from 1980s.
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“Book is the best gift”
“Reading is the best learning. Aleksandr Pushkin.”
Vintage Soviet leaflet from an unidentified store.
Illustration by Aleksandr Deyneka for A. Pravdina’s short story “Four Tos’kas” (1930)
(Tos’ka—Тоська—is a cat’s name and also a woman’s name. Antonina → Tosya → Tos’ka)