Boys riding reindeer. Nogliki village on Sakhalin, Russia’s Far East. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1968).
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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