This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
Mayakovsky Metro Station in Leningrad (St Petersburg), 1980
Visiting Petrodvorets (Peterhof), 1985
Friendship of Nations Fountain at VDNKh (1984)
This one is different from all the others, it has 16 pages of emblems and flags of Soviet republics.
“There Was a Dog”, Soviet cartoon (1982)
House of Books on Kalinin Prospect (Novy Arbat) in Moscow (1984)
‘Hello summer!’ - an educational leaflet for teens about road safety. Published in Simferopol, Crimea (1981)
Latex wallpaper glue. Vintage poster from Belarus (1983) ()
GameBoy Tetris theme based on traditional Russian song Korobushka (Little Box), also known as Korobeiniki.
Original 1984 Soviet Tetris didn’t have any music in it.
Happy 35th birthday Tetris! The game was introduced on June 6, 1984.
Tetris was created by Soviet IT engineer Alexey Pazhitnov. It was based on the game of Pentamino that he read about in ‘Science and Life’ magazine. Pazhitnov wrote the game for Electronika-60 computer, it was then customized for IBM PC by 16 y.o. Vadim Gerasimov.
When I was a kid, I had portable Tetris and spent hours playing it.
Have you ever played Tetris (in any form)?
DIY paper frog (1986)