![Pussy willow seller on a street in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Nikolai Moshkov (spring 1972).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/905be822240f4326b5632d211a360bb1/bcff8523a2cf10d9-5b/s1280x1920/84dd19838fdd39e01820a30a45e1353f22557ad4.jpg)
Pussy willow seller on a street in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Nikolai Moshkov (spring 1972).
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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Here are four new space-themed holiday postcards in my collection. My favourite topic in New Year cards! (Soviet Russia 1970s)
Soviet art. Spring At The Drill Site by V. Yanke.
Early spring, postcard from 1960
Soviet art. Spring by T. Alekseyeva.
(Original vintage print available.)
Drinking kvass from the barrel on the street (USSR, 1970s).
In the summer, local bread factory made kvass and sold it from steel barrels around the city (barrels have a tap). This tradition is still alive in Russia, only barrels are sometimes smaller and made of plastic. Oh and they use single-use plastic cups now instead of glasses.
Kindergarten of the 1970s, Vladimir (Soviet Union)
Spring flowers. Back cover of a Rabotnitsa (Working Woman) magazine from the 1970s.
Vintage book “Pusselchen” (Baby Animals) in German, published in Soviet Russia in 1979
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Children put up a birdhouse in the spring. Photo by V. Kunov (Moscow, 1950s-60s).