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.
Washing the streets of Moscow (1947). Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin.
Workers’ diner in Chekhov, Sakhalin (Russian Far East), 1950s. ()
Yuri Gagarin in a photography shop. Photo by Alexander Mokletsov (1965)
Summer café on Vosstaniya Street in Leningrad. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (mid-1960s).
Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina choose new shoes for their daughter. Photo by Alexander Mokletsov (1965)
September 1 - First school day of the year
September 1, 1955
Exit from the Chilren’s World (a huge toy store in Moscow) to Dzerzhinky Square (Lubyanka), 1970s.
Yuri Gagarin in 1961, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
Push-the-button pedestrian crossing in Moscow (1968)
Photo by Yury Belinsky, 1968
Anti-war protests after Israel attacked Lebanon. Photos from Ottawa, Tashkent, Tel Aviv, published in Soviet Ogonyok magazine (1982).
Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow (1954)
Kolya Martyanov, milling machine worker at Plant #654 in Chuvash republic in Russia (1942)