Café Neringa in Vilnius, Lithuania (1960s)
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.
Early 1970s, Lithuania
Energy café in Tallinn, Estonia (1958)
Evening in the family of Manizers (both sculptors), photo by Mark Markov-Grinberg (Leningrad, 1940)
Grocery Store #1 (Yeliseyevsky) in Moscow. Photo by N. Kuleshov (1952)
The forgotten story of Vera Chaplina — the Moscow zookeeper who raised a lion in her communal apartment in the 1930s.
A calf in the room, photo by Pavel Maksimov (Russia, 1991)
Moskva Hotel in Sochi, Russia (1987)
Room decorated for New Year’s (USSR, 1950s)
A restaurant in Kaliningrad. Photos by Aleksey Gubin, Valery Lozovoy (1960s).
Kirov Sanatorium in Pyatigorsk, Russia. Photo by Yuri Zhvanko (1985)
Grocery Store #1 in Norilsk, Russia (1953) (via norilsk-24.ru)
A kitchen on Stary Arbat street, Moscow (1989)
Photo by Valery Khristoforov
Interior of one of the rooms of a three-room model apartment in the 10th experimental quarter (Novyye Cheryomushki, Moscow). October 1, 1968.
Photo by Naum Granovsky/TASS
Interior of a living room from the “Household electrical appliances and lamps produced in the GDR” exhibition (June 4, 1969).
Photo by Alexander Konkov/TASS.