Andrey Kolesov, reindeer herder from Zolotinka, a livestock sovkhoz in Yakutia. Photo by Aleksey Gostev (1983).
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.
Sredne-Kolymsky sovkhoz in Yakutia (1971)
Potapovo settlement in the north of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia (1967)
Reindeer racing in Tyumen region, photo by Anatoly Polyakov (1969)
Smile of the North. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Tarko-Sale, Siberia, 1968).
Indigenous peoples of Yakutia, photos by Varfolomei Teterin (USSR, 1964)
(via Sergei Maximishin)
“Norilsk. Tundra in winter.”
Vintage Soviet postcard (1950)
Oymyakon, Yakutia, Russia. Photo by Dean Conger (1966)
Reindeer sled rides at VDNKh in Moscow (1979)
Cover of Funny Pictures, January 1968
Reindeer ride at VDNKh (1982)
Reindeer sledge in the Russian North (Murmansk region), 1980
Chukotka (Russia’s Far East). Reindeer herder Nikolai Etuvie.
Vintage postcards of Norilsk, Russia