Vintage postcards that say “Greetings from the New Year’s Leningrad!” (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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Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
“In the Streetcar” by E. Kibrik (1940)
“How I Met the New Year” written and illustrated by Viktor Golyavkin (1963)
Soviet New Year postcards ❤
Holiday crowd in the metro. Photo by M. Ozyorsky (Moscow, 1955).
Snowfall in Moscow. Photo by Minev (1964).
Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) on postcards - 1959 (via)
The city is still pretty much the same, but with heavier traffic.
Leningrad, Zhelyabova street, 1987
(now Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya st.)
Anichkov Bridge, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1974
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov