The Thirteen Chairs café in Riga, Latvia. Photo by Aleksandr Makarov (1970).
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.
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Beryozka [Little Birch Tree] café in Perm, Russia. Photo by Yevgeny Zagulyayev (1965).
Senior foreman Paukov’s family at home. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (1937).
Family at home (USSR, 1960s)
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Café Molodyozhnoye [Youth’s] on Gorky Street, Moscow (1961)
Family night (USSR, 1979)
Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory. Recreation room in workers’ dormitory (1950).
Winter Garden of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (1961)
Family at home. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 1979).
In the halls of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1981)
Kitchen in a communal flat on Solyanka street in Moscow. Photo by Mikhail Dashevsky (1960s).
Café Neva in Leningrad (1958)
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“Kosmos” [Space] ice cream café on Gorky Street in Moscow (1960s)
Institute of Scientific Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences (c. 1974)
Interior of a flat in Naujojoje Akmenėje, Lithuania (early 1970s)