Mayakovsky Metro Station in Leningrad (St Petersburg), 1980
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.
Sokolniki metro station in Moscow ft. portaits of Kaganovich, Stalin and Ordzhonikidze (1935)
Lenin Hills metro station in Moscow (1970s) ()
Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow (1955)
Metro station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)
Mayakovskaya Metro Station by Valentin Varetsa (1980)
Entrance to the Kaluzhskaya metro station (current name Oktyabrskaya) in Moscow. Photo by Lawrence Monthey (1959).
Design sketches for various Moscow Metro stations (1930s)
Metro. Illustration by I. Kabakov (1978)
Kievskaya metro station in Moscow. Photo by
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1954).
Vacuum cleaning Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow (1955)
“Metro” by Maria Strakhova, illustrated by Viktor Ivanov (1948)
Pictured on the cover of this book is the entrance to Krasnye Vorota metro station in Moscow.
Moscow metro (1963)
Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow (1980)