Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture in Leningrad (built in 1925-27). Photo from 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.
Art To The Masses magazine No. 6, 1930
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.
The KIM school. Art by Semyon Pavlov (1931).
KIM stands for Young Communist International, it’s a school in Leningrad/St Petersburg built between 1927 and 1932 (now School #327).
![Gostorg [State Trade] building in Moscow. Postcard from 1929.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c29acfe6d0c2ca6eabcf3f93783b52e2/746842e5afdb94bb-21/s1280x1920/1be2592f79dcb23aed3206aab0e08aed44f9d798.jpg)
Gostorg [State Trade] building in Moscow. Postcard from 1929.
Nursery school by the building of Pravda newspaper. Photo by A. Agapov (Moscow, 1955)
Cover of “Women’s Magazine”, March 1929
Rusakov Workers’ Club in Moscow designed by Konstantin Melnikov, constructed in 1927-28. Photo by Valentin Kuzmin.
Cover of “Woman’s Magazine” (USSR, May 1929)
Inturist Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo by Naum Granovsky (1950s)
Strastnaya Square in Moscow (1930) (current name Pushkin Square)
In the background is the constructivist building of Izvestia Newspaper (built in 1927).
Covers of “Building Moscow” magazine (USSR, 1929)
Voroshilov Sanatorium in Sochi, Russia. Architect M. Merzhanov, built in 1932-1934. It had a private funicular going down the hill to the sea.
Constructivist fabric designs (USSR, 1920s)
Sportswear made after sketches by an iconic Russian avant-garde artist Varvara Stepanova. She designed these in 1923. (via Moscow Design Museum)