Yuri Gagarin on covers of the Soviet Photo magazine, 1961 and 1971
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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The first cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (1960s)
Postcard with 4 Soviet cosmonauts (Yuri Gagarin, Pavel Popovich, German Titov, and Andriyan Nikolayev) - 1963 ()
My favourite thing about it though is the back! Written in a lovely child’s cursive, it says “For memory to my sister Galya from sister Nina Zlobina. May 5, 1964.″
Soviet Cosmonauts German Titov And Yuri Gagarin, Vintage Soviet Postcard (1961)
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“Honor and glory to pilot and cosmonaut, honorary pioneer Yuri Gagarin!”
Cover of Murzilka, May 1961
Soviet cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev, Gherman Titov and Yuri Gagarin (1964)
Yuri Gagarin (1960s)
Yuri Gagarin on holidays in Crimea, photo by Yuri Abramochkin (1961)
Yuri Gagarin in 1961, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
Yuri Gagarin amidst celebrations marking his space flight. The boy is dressed up as a cosmonaut, his headpiece reads USSR.
Mother hare and her baby hare. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin as published in Chizh magazine, 1939.