Camping in Asan-Tukum gorge in Tian Shan mountains of Kirghizia. Photo by Spartak Lovkov (1974).
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.
Camping in Arkhyz mountains. Photo by Spartak Lovkov (August 1980).
Camping in Leningrad oblast. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1970s).
Student camping site for the construction of Volzhsky Pipe Plant. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Volzhsky, Russia, 1967)
Turners of the Moscow Likhachyov Automobile Plant, Yu. Andreyev and A. Odinokov, play chess during their stay at river Vorya. Photo by V. Budan and V. Kuzmin (Zagorsk, Moscow oblast, July 1969).
“Southern Urals. View of Bolshoye Miassovo lake.” Postcard by E. Sokolov (1962).
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1970s)
Tourists at a car camping in New Athos (Abkhazia, 1971)
Workers of Moldavkabel factory V. Kalugin and V. Starovoytov camping with children. Photo by Boris Kapnin (1987)
Camping with the whole family. Photo by Sergei Voronin (1986)
Making fish soup at the camping site (USSR, 1981)
Camping on river Koiva, Perm region of Russia (1989)
Young fathers camping with their children, photo by Boris Kapnin (1987)
River Tom’, 1976 (via)
(From the “Flowers of the Mountains” postcard set, 1973)