Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
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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New Year tree on the central square of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1967).
Vintage postcards that say “Greetings from the New Year’s Leningrad!” (1950s)
Snowfall in Moscow. Photo by Minev (1964).
Boys riding reindeer. Nogliki village on Sakhalin, Russia’s Far East. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1968).
Ice rink in Sokolniki Park. Photo by Vladimir Lagranzh (Moscow, 1962).
Holiday crowd in the metro. Photo by M. Ozyorsky (Moscow, 1955).
“How I Met the New Year” written and illustrated by Viktor Golyavkin (1963)
Ded Moroz, Snegurochka and children at a Kremlin New Year party (1950s)
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Olya Afanasyeva learning to ski. Photo by Stanislav Afanasyev (Kuibyshev [Samara], December 1978).
Pioneer leader gives a talk at school. Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev (Moscow, 1979).