Fountain on Tverskaya square in Moscow (1950s)
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.
Artek pioneer camp. Photo by Yevgeny Umnov (1945).
Boys with their plane models. Photo by Leonid Shokin (USSR, 1950s).
Children in Artek, a pioneer camp in Crimea. Photo by Nikolai Popov (1940s).
Photo by Antanas Sutkus (Lithuania, 1970s)
Merry-go-round in Cherepovets City Park. Photo by V. Petrov (1962).
During the 1955 May Parade in Osh, Kirghizia. All women in the photo are wearing silk flower dresses made at the Osh Silk Factory.
Children on a carousel in Volzhsky City Park. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1967).
“Son is kissing mother for the very first time. It’s worth everything.” Photo from the book of “Nutrition for Children” (1957).
On Kuznetsky Most street. Photo by Vladimir Stepanov (Moscow, 1957).
The Olympian sports shop in Norilsk. Photo by Yuri Trufanov (Russia, 1985).
Photo postcard by Aleksandr Stanovov (1962)
Soup for lunch. Photo by Yuri Korolyov (Moscow, 1956).
A dog, a boy and a bird house (1957)
Favourite toy. Photo made in Myshkin, Yaroslavl oblast, Russia (1970s).