Anichkov Bridge, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1974
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
GUM (department store in Moscow) in 1984
Soviet art. Spring by Alexander Deyneka (1950)
V. Golyshkin “The Street Becomes Ours”. Illustrated by German Mazurin (1964)
Cover of Funny Pictures, March 1973. Illustration for a classic Russian folk tale Teremok.
Cadets of Murmansk Navy Academy (1971)
Signs of spring. Illustration by N. Yermolayev.
Fireworks in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
Leningrad, 1960s. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich.
Vintage toys. Bear rattle from Ukraine, Zhiguli cars from Russia, roly poly doll from Czechoslovakia. (Collection of Ivan Druzhinin.)
Illustration by I. Belopolskaya and I. Komarova (1970)
At a seafood factory in Murmansk, Russia (1971)
Labels on the tins read Herring, Mackerel.
Greeting the spring. Illustration by A. Pakhomov.
At the daycare. Notice our old friend Gena the Crocodile. :)
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)