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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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May 9 (WWII Victory Day) is the day I think about my grandparents a lot. Unfortunately, I only knew one of them, my father’s father (bottom row). All others died before I could talk. All of them survived the WWII. Grandfather Serafim (top row) was a train driver. Grandmother Masha (top row) was a nurse and also worked on a train. That’s how they met - on railroad. Grandfather Tolya was a tank pointer during the war, and an optics physysist after. Grandma Nadya was a doctor, after the war she worked as a pediatrician.
I try to learn more about them and what kind of people they were. Sometimes I see in me something that I clearly got from them and it’s crazy.
Tell me about your grandparents, especially those who aren’t with us anymore. Let’s remember them.
Moscow, 1959
Macaroni penguins (called in Russian golden-haired penguins) in the Moscow Zoo. Photo by V. Koshevoy (1950).
On a date. Photo by Yu. Korolyov (Oryol oblast, Russia, 1970s).
Vintage mid-century mesh bag made of aluminum
Stakhanovite workers of the Ivanovo output base Antonina Marfina (right) and Aleksandra Morozova packing a fabric stack. Photo by Yakov Ryumkin (1953).
Welder. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s).
Travellers in Crimea (1975)
“Learn to Color”. Cover art by E. Rozhkova (1955).
“The Holiday Relay Race” by Yaroslav Titov (1990)