Restorer L. Kochetkova cleans the Catherine the Great monument in the Ostrovsky Park (Leningrad, 1959)
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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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) on postcards - 1959 (via)
The city is still pretty much the same, but with heavier traffic.
Leningrad on razor blade wrappers (USSR, 1950s)
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Izmailovsky Gardens entrance, Leningrad 1950s
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Leningrad, 1950s
Leningrad, Zhelyabova street, 1987
(now Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya st.)
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Moskvoretsky promtorg (a department store in Moscow), 1946