Harvest in apple orchards near Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan, 1972)
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.
“Komsomol Squad. Picking Apples.” Autolithograph by Valentina Alimova (1963).
Collective farmers at a fruit exhibition. Photo by Boris Ignatovich (Moscow, 1950).
Wheat harvest. Photo by Valentin Khukhlayev (August 1959).
Harvest of grapes in Gurzuf sovkhoz (Crimea, 1970)
“In the Garden” by Dmitry Zhuravlyov (1978)
Picking grapes (Azerbaijan, 1972)
“Autumn’s Profusion” by Aleksey Sokolenko (1987)
Cover of “Building the USSR”, No. 9, 1949.
Watermelon market in Uzbekistan
Harvest of melons (Uzbekistan, 1966)
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Picking strawberries. “Novaya Zhizn” [New Life] kolkhoz, Kuybyshev, Russia. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (1938).
Strawberry harvest at the ‘Kavkaz’ kolkhoz in Krasnodarsky Krai, south of Russia. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1957).
Cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. Photo by L. Guseinov (1982).
Nadya Molchanova with cherries. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Ukraine, 1956).