Dancing twist at a workers’ club. Photo by Dmitry Baltermants (USSR, 1960s).
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.
“The Nutcracker” (USSR, 1973)
Photo by V. Gende-Rote (Moscow, 1970s)
Central control room of Sheremetyevo Airport. Photo by A. Vorotynsky (Moscow, 1960).
Children playing in the snow. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Veliky Ustyug, Russia, 1970s).
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov
Students of Komsomol school of home economics. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (USSR, 1960s).
Tverskoy boulevard in Moscow. Photo by B. Vdovenko (1936).
Moscow call-in information office (“Mosgorspravka”). Photo by V. Gende-Rote (1962).
Children’s book about birds by N. Orekhovsky, illustrated by Leonid Feinberg (1930).
(The book’s name is imitating some bird sounds, so I won’t even try to translate it.)
Wooden painted dolls of Soviet republics (Zagorsk, 1950s)
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)
Aircraft modeling club in the local Palace of Pioneers. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (Sakhalin, 1967).
View from the
Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow Kremlin. Photo by
Vladimír Vlček (1947).
Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov painting. Photo by V. Bazanov (1960s).