At the table. Photo by Mikhail Prekhner (1930s).
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.
Physical training school club in Galich, Russia. Photo by Mikhail Smodor (1932).
A pioneer team leader during Athlete Day parade on the Red Square. Photo by Anatoly Yegorov (Moscow, 1947).
Plastic figurines of Soviet pioneers. Made at the Factory of Art Products in Moscow, 1940.
“Buy eskimo ice cream” - Soviet poster from 1950s
Eskimo (эскимо́) in Russian is a generic name for chocolate-covered ice cream with a wooden stick for holding it.
“Poultry Girls” - lithographs by Shaya Bronshtein (1952)
Young pioneers in Artek camp on the Black Sea (Crimea, 1930s). Photos by Yakov Berlin.
“May Day” by Valentin Bozhko (1960s)
Pioneers are carrying letters that read “May 1″ and “We are for peace”.
Pioneers. Decorative plate designed by S. Pressman, manufactured at Konakovo Faience Factory (USSR, 1930s).
Cover of “Hygiene and Health of Working and Peasant Families” (May 1930)
“What the Bugle Sang” by E. Suvorina (USSR, 1962)
“School Girls” by Aleksandr Sakhanov (1950)
“Strong in spirit / True to friendship / Children of the great / Soviet country.”
Poster by N. Vigilyanskaya (1960).
“Young Artist” by Viktor Kudelkin (1955)
Children of Zhargalanta, a village in Buryatia, RSFSR. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1959).