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.
Dairy products on sale in the shop No. 26 (“Milk”) in Yevpatoriya (1978)
Quality controllers A. Andreeva and M. Mysova check the quality of black caviar before it being sealed. Kirov Fisheries Department in Azerbaijan
(1947).
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.