Volga (GAZ-21) in Crimea (1955)
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.
Abkhazia, road from Sochi to Lake Ritza (1967)
After the rain. Lenin Street in Kiev (1963)
Soviet prototype electric cars by the Space Pavillion of VDNKh exhibition (1969)
Pervomayskaya (May Day) street in Moscow in the 1950s
Arbatskaya Square in Moscow (1961)
Gorky street (Tverskaya) in Moscow, 1955
Leningrad in 1939, crossing of October 25 Prospect and Nakhimson Prospect (Saint Petersburg, Nevsky Prospect and Vladimirsky Prospect)
Leningrad in 1964
This little guy is a vintage Soviet PAZ bus made into coffee kiosk!
Gorky street in Moscow (current/historical name Tverskaya). Photo by Yevgeny Umnov (1947)
Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad (1947)
Photos from yesterday’s Victory Parade in Sarov, Russia. Photographer Darya Latysheva.
Dzerzhinsky Square in Moscow (current/historical name Lubyanka), 1955
“Peace. Work. May”, a classic May Day slogan in the USSR (Moscow, 1960s)