“If I shoot the balloon I’ll ruin it!”
“But if you don’t, you’ll ruin me!”
Winnie the Pooh (USSR, 1969)
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.
![Sverdlov street [Bolshaya Pokrovskaya] in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Viktor Borodin (1960s).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ce013cbbaf3d228550d7cb1c80b11592/0ed7a21049bb93d3-20/s1280x1920/54391457023b308a3aab61c439bfc920b68ea7cc.jpg)
Sverdlov street [Bolshaya Pokrovskaya] in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Viktor Borodin (1960s).
Nikolai Ustinov. Illustration for Lev Kuzmin’s poem, “The Man Who Was Always Cold” (1969).
Souvenir shop in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (1960s)
“Blouses and Skirts 1966-1967”, cover of a vintage sewing pattern book
Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow (1961)
“A Breath of Spring” by Nelli Baranchuk (1960s)
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Record sleeve design from USSR (1965).
“Spring in Gurzuf” by Shaya Bronshtein (1960)
One of the reading halls in the All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (1967).
Discussing art. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Moscow, 1963).
Uchebny alley in Moscow (1963)
Photo by Vitaly Gumenyuk (Moscow, 1960s)
Cover of Soviet Photo, April 1966
Children in the room. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Volzhsky, 1967).