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Yunost [Youth] magazine, May 1968
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.
Macaroni penguins (called in Russian golden-haired penguins) in the Moscow Zoo. Photo by V. Koshevoy (1950).
Poster for “The Big Move”, a Soviet 1959 documentary about the urban planning reform of 50s.
(Watch here)
An room in the Intourist Hotel overlooking the Kremlin and the Red Square (Moscow, 1978).
“Goods by mail. For young
construction
workers of Komsomol shock projects”.
Advertising poster, USSR 1962.
Library love
“Gardeners” by Nikolai Nosov, cover art by Georgiy Yudin (1978)
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Summer terrace of a sweet café on October 25 Prospect [Nevsky] in Leningrad. May 1941 (before the war).
Yunost (Youth) cinema theater in Ryazan, Russia (1960s)
Catalog of clothing models recommended for 1966 by the Methodical meeting of specialists of Soviet republican fashion houses (published in 1965).
Cover of “Decorative Arts of the USSR”, May 1962
On a date. Photo by Yu. Korolyov (Oryol oblast, Russia, 1970s).
Moscow, 1959
Morning. Photo by Yakov Khalip (Moscow, 1957).
Cover of Murzilka, May 1960