Skiers on Leninsky Hills. Photo by Ivan Shagin (Moscow, 1950s).
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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A skiing competition. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (Moscow, 1950s).
Skiing in Moscow (Moscow State University building in the background). Photo by Naum Granovsky, 1963.
Skiing on MKAD (Moscow Circle Road), photo by M. Trakhman (1962)
Winter in Moscow (1960s)
The building you can see in the background is the Moscow State University
Visit the USSR in Winter. Soviet INTURIST poster (1950s)
(Inturist was an organization that invited and assisted foreign tourists in the USSR.)
Komsomol girl Ira Grishina, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s)
On the outskirts of Moscow, photo by V. Stepanov (1950s)
Trinity Church in Moscow, photo by V. Stepanov (1950s)
Novoalekseyevskaya street in Moscow. Photo by V. Stepanov (1950s)
Winter. A woman with two buckets goes to fetch some water. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s).