Viru, the Estonian cooperation store and café on Ostozhenka street (Moscow, late 1980s)
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.
Morning street wash. Moscow, 1959.
Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow (1970s)
Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture in Leningrad (built in 1925-27). Photo from 1950s.
Kirovsky department store and factory-kitchen in Leningrad (built in 1929-1931). As published in I. Bartenev’s “Modern Architecture of Leningrad”, 1966.
A very nice specimen of constructivist architecture.
Tsaritsyno part in Moscow. Photos by M. Redkin (1962).
Krasnye vorota (Red Gates) metro station in Moscow built in 1935
Yaroslavsky train station in Moscow. Photo by I. Gakov (1930s).
Novosibirsk, 1982
Tobolsk Recreation House. Postcard art by G. Shubin (1962).
The Palace of Labour in Leningrad (1982)
CSKA stadium in Moscow (1930s)
Oktyabr (October) cinema theater in Arzamas-16 (Sarov), 1960
Vacationers playing billiards in the Italian Court of Livada Palace. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (Crimea, 1930s).
Tallinn, Estonia (1960s)