Verticals tea cup with saucer made at Dmitrovsky Porcelain Factory (Verbilki) in 1930s.
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.
Moscow, 1935
Azerbaijan woman. Photo by Yakov Khalip (1939).
“The Chick” by Kornei Chukovsky, illustrated by Yevgeny Charushin (1934)
Children’s books of fairy tales published in the USSR in 1936-37
Gorky street after the rain. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet (Moscow, 1938).
Yaroslavsky train station in Moscow. Photo by I. Gakov (1930s).
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Picking strawberries. “Novaya Zhizn” [New Life] kolkhoz, Kuybyshev, Russia. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (1938).
Young pioneers in Artek camp on the Black Sea (Crimea, 1930s). Photos by Yakov Berlin.
Sokolniki metro station in Moscow (1939)
The very first Red Arrow train leaving from Moscow to Leningrad. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet (June 30, 1931).
“Winter” by Z. Aleksandrova, illustrated by Aleksandr Mogilevsky (1933)
“Mug Under the Spruce Tree” by Boris Zhitkov, illustrated by L. Yeliseyevnina (1939)
Tiny fold-out calendar for the year 1933
Parade of athletes dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the establishing of the Byelorussian SSR. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzherikhin (1934).