“Book is the best gift”
“Reading is the best learning. Aleksandr Pushkin.”
Vintage Soviet leaflet from an unidentified store.
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.
More you might like
Soviet holiday postcards!
A winter day on Nikitsky boulevard (Moscow, early 1950s)
Today’s random New Year postcards (60s-80s)
Vladimir Zarubin’s postcards (aka the cutest postcards in existence) featuring hares / rabbits. These are all from 1980s.
From my personal collection :)
![Space veterans Kozyavka (flew twice in 1956) and Otvazhnaya [Brave Girl] (flew twice in 1958).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/845a5a3f31a124ebfc98d9ce43112938/0b86513aad98c0f0-58/s1280x1920/16b21fd108588c3c91012202c2e6f769249b0fff.jpg)
Space veterans Kozyavka (flew twice in 1956) and Otvazhnaya [Brave Girl] (flew twice in 1958).
A 30-piece Matryoshka doll made at “Igrushka” wooden toy factory in Semyonov. Photo by V. Izvolensky (1966).
“Happy New Year!”
“New Year presents, all kinds of foods, wines, fruit - buy in Gastronom stores!”
Ad leaflet from Leningrad, 1950.
A 1980 leaflet advertising a lottery where you could win money or prizes such as watches, fridges, radios, tape players, TV sets, pianos, motorcycles and cars.
Soviet New Year tree ornaments (1950s-60s)
By the New Year tree. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldeyev (USSR, 1950s).