Grocery shop in the village of Konosha, Arkhangelsk oblast, north of Russia (1950s)
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.
More you might like
Sweet bread sticks, a very Soviet tea snack - box design from late 1950s (via)
Working women in Soviet art
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
(via)
Canned green peas, canned meat, sausages and beer - pictures from Soviet cookbooks (1950s)
“Organic Georgian tea. Sold in all grocery stores.” Soviet advertising poster (1950s)
“Tea is a healthy drink”, Soviet poster (1950s)
Cakes and chocolates from the Soviet Union (1950s)
The lost art of stacking up canned goods. Photos by Harrison Forman (Moscow, c. 1959)
Cover of L’Union Sovétique, March 1953.
The Soviet Union was a Soviet magazine published in Moscow in many languages (it was named Building the USSR before 1950).
Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad (1977)