Registan (old town square) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Photo by Pyotr Klepikov (1947).
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.
Boy in traditional Uzbek hat eating watermelon. The hat is called doppa or, in Russian, tyubeteika.
Watermelon market in Uzbekistan
Harvest of melons (Uzbekistan, 1966)
Cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. Photo by L. Guseinov (1982).
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Uzbekistan, late 1960s)
Shepherd Bekmirzo Ishimbetov. Photo by S. Beznosov (Uzbekistan, 1966).
Bakhor dance group. Photo by Gennady Grafkin (Uzbekistan, 1966)
Tambourine men in Central Asia. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (USSR, 1933)
Mukhamed Atadzhanov with son Abdulla and granddaughters. Melons on the market square. Photos by Nikolai Kozlovsky (Uzbekistan, 1986)
Ogonyok Sovkhoz in Uzbekistan. Cotton harvest / Rustam Kasymov and local fruit. Photos by Nikolai Kozlovsky (1986)
“Painters in Shah-i-Zinda“ by Pavel Benkov (1943)
Gulchekhra Dzhamilova, student of Tashkent Theater Institute. Photo by R. Shamsutdinov (Uzbekistan, 1966)
Hot weather in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Photo by R. Gafurov (1978)
Vladimir Lenin Museum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1974)