“Hiking is the best rest!” - Soviet poster designed by M. Nesterova (1946)
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.
Mountains of Kamchatka. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1979).
Hiking near Zvenigorod. Photo by Georgiy Chernykh (1975).
Hiking in Northern Altai. Photos by Sergey Yelizarov (August 1989).
Smoke break during the hike from Opalikha to Perkhushkovo (Moscow oblast, Russia). Photo by Pavel Sukharev. (June 5, 1979)
Tourists at a rest stop near Bashkino, Moscow oblast. Photo by Sergey Sukharev (May 1975)
Origins of the Meridian Tourist Club (Perm, Russia). Hiking in Bashkiria (1960).
Mountains in Stavropol region of Russia (postcard from 1968)
Young fathers camping with their children, photo by Boris Kapnin (1987)
Rest. Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine. Postcard by M. Kozlovsky (1962)
Hikers in Kirghizia (1977)
Tourists looking at a mountain lake (USSR, 1963)
Tourists in the mountains of Abkhazia (1987)
Hiking in Dombai Mountains (1969)
Tourists in Dombai Mountains (1969)