Beach of river Irtysh in Omsk, Siberia. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin (June 16, 1971).
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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Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1962)
Dinamo stadium in Gorky. Photo by Nikolai Moshkov (1964).
Cover of the Soviet Photo magazine, August 1966
Horses in the field on the island of Kizhi. Photo by Boris Tairov (Karelia, USSR, 1960s).
“Visitors in the Artist’s Studio” by T. Fedotova (1981)
A village in Karelia. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1937).
“Summer” by Aleksandra Saikina (1987)
All-Union Agricultural Expo. Pavilions of Agriculture, Mechanization, and Animal husbandry.
Illustration by A. Yermolayev, as published in Murzilka in Aug. 1954.
Took these yesterday in my friend’s garden! That’s honeysuckle, the first berry of the season.
Grandfather and grandson read in the park. Photo by Pyotr Nosov (Moscow, 1964).