New Year’s party on the ice rink. Picture by Konstantin Rotov, as published in Funny Pictures (1956)
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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.
Pushkin Square in Moscow. Photo by Nikolai Rakhmanov (February 7, 1958).
By the New Year tree. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldeyev (USSR, 1950s).
Skiing on Neva River in Leningrad. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (early 1950s).
View of the Moscow Kremlin. Photo by Carl Mydans (1959).
Inna Malfygina and friends jogging in the snow. Photo by Valentin Khukhlayev (Moscow, 1955).
“Everyone go to the election!”
Photo by Valentin Khukhlayev (February 22, 1953)
Ice rink in Gorky Park. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Moscow, 1950s).
Holiday season in Sokolniki Park (Moscow, 1956)
Decorating a bakery window for the New Year. Photo by Vladimir Stepanov (1958).
A frosty morning. Photo by Boris Ignatovich (1950s).
Skiers on Leninsky Hills. Photo by Ivan Shagin (Moscow, 1950s).
Winter. A woman with two buckets goes to fetch some water. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s).
Soviet New Year tree ornaments (1950s-60s)
Cover of “Fashions” magazine/catalogue, Moscow 1959