“Summer” by Aleksandra Saikina (1987)
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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Cover of the Soviet Photo magazine, August 1966
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1962)
Children in Artek, a pioneer camp in Crimea. Photo by Nikolai Popov (1940s).
Boys with their plane models. Photo by Leonid Shokin (USSR, 1950s).
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.
Beach of river Irtysh in Omsk, Siberia. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin (June 16, 1971).
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Cover of Kostyor [Campfire] youth magazine, May 1960
“The Magic Swan Geese”, a Russian folk tale illustrated by T. Savchenko (1976)
On the beach of Gurzuf, Crimea. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (1930s).