“Pioneer” by Olga Yanovskaya (1950)
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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Girls in the kishlak (village) of Ziddi, Tajik SSR. Photo by Igor Mikhalyov (1987).
Soviet children’s books. Folk tales from Burma (1-2), India (3), China and Korea (4). Published in 1957-58.
University students getting ready for exams. Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod], June 1965.
Baby owls. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin (1956).
“In the evening”. Postcard by L. Tarasova and E. Sumnitelny (1968).
A girl by the river. Photo by S. Shimansky (1960s).
Vintage enamel pin of a rooster. Size 4.4 cm / 1.7″ on the bigger side.
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Vintage enamel pin of Buran, a Soviet spaceplane that made its first and only flight in 1988. Size 3 cm / 1.2″.
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Gymnasts from Pavlovo, Ordzhonikidze, Sverdlovsk—participants of the All-Union Parade of athletes (Moscow, 1947).