USSR champion skier comrade Chistyakova. Art postcard by P. Simon (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.
Poster for the Soviet 1972 film
“The Move of the White Queen”, designed by G. Illarionov.
Girl with skis. Photo by Lev Borodulin (1960s).
Biathlon. Photo by Aleksandr Abaza (1980s).
Skiing in Moscow (Moscow State University building in the background). Photo by Naum Granovsky, 1963.
Ski relay race in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk oblast of Russia. Photo by Vladimir Geogriyev (1965).
A skiing competition. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (Moscow, 1950s).
“Train Platform” by Boris Kamynin (1972)
“Snow Maiden” by Aleksandr Deyneka (1954)
Early 1980s attire for a ski walk (USSR)
(via Moscow Design Museum)
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Sovkhoz Ruchyi [Brooks] in Novgorod Oblast of Russia. Photo by M. Savin for Ogonyok (1983).
Skiing on the ice of Teletskoye Lake in Altai Reserve (postcard, 1972)
Weekend in Kuzminki Forest Park in Moscow. Photo by Valentin Sobolev (1983)
Komsomol girl Ira Grishina, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s)
Skiers at a hotel (1963)