By the New Year tree. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldeyev (USSR, 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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Boys riding reindeer. Nogliki village on Sakhalin, Russia’s Far East. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1968).
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At a Matryoshka-making workshop in Semyonov. Photo by V. Izvolensky (Russia, 1966).
Pushkin Square in Moscow. Photo by Nikolai Rakhmanov (February 7, 1958).
New Year tree on the central square of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1967).
Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
New Year’s party on the ice rink. Picture by Konstantin Rotov, as published in Funny Pictures (1956)
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Winter in Leningrad. Photo by B. Fabritsky, I. Shmelyov (1988).