Matchbox labels from Pinsk Match Factory in Belarus (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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Covers of “Technology for Youth” from 1960s
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Illustration by Lyudmila Filippova as published in Funny Pictures magazine (1980s)
“Capital Letter A” by Sergey Kozlov, illustrated by Svetozar Ostrov (1979).
Late winter in Kazan. Photo by Rustam Mukhametzyanov (1974).
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)
The Thirteen Chairs café in Riga, Latvia. Photo by Aleksandr Makarov (1970).
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Photo by A. Vorotynsky (1960).
“We need peace”. Cover of Kolobok, January 1979.
Illustrations from “Rainbow-Bow” (a book of nursery rhymes) by Yuri Vasnetsov, 1969
“Cacti” by Vladimir Kochergin (1982)