Quality controllers A. Andreeva and M. Mysova check the quality of black caviar before it being sealed. Kirov Fisheries Department in Azerbaijan
(1947).
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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Buffet at Park Kultury [Culture Park] metro station. Photo by Mario De Biasi (Moscow, 1960).
Winter in Moscow
Dairy products on sale in the shop No. 26 (“Milk”) in Yevpatoriya (1978)
Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
Ruslan and Lyudmila. Photo by Yuri Krivonosov (Moscow, 1968).
The title is a reference to a famous fairy tale by Aleksandr Pushkin (”Ruslan and Lyudmila”). Lyudmila is the name of the shop spelled by neon letters.
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Photo by A. Vorotynsky (1960).
More vintage records I have for sale (all used). Most of it is classical music, a few non-classical on the third photo. The last two photos are boxed sets of Rakhmaninov and Prokofiev.
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“We need peace”. Cover of Kolobok, January 1979.
“How I Met the New Year” written and illustrated by Viktor Golyavkin (1963)
“In the Streetcar” by E. Kibrik (1940)