At the toy store
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.
Toy shop in Kursk, Russia (1950s)
You can see many separate doll heads, they were for DIY dolls (you made the body yourself).
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Photo from “Me Is Me”, a 1979 Soviet book (thanks to Mikhail Tkachyov for scanning it.)
Moscow punks (1988)
A boy playing with his toy horse. Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow (1970s)
Making of children’s pedal cars at AZLK car factory, Moscow. Photo by S. Solovyov (1970)
Vintage Soviet toy robot 🤖
Children’s blocks from 1941 (USSR)
Rubber toys from Soviet Union (1950s) (via Vsevolod Ladifyan)
Vintage toys. Bear rattle from Ukraine, Zhiguli cars from Russia, roly poly doll from Czechoslovakia. (Collection of Ivan Druzhinin.)
At the daycare. Notice our old friend Gena the Crocodile. :)
The
Fröbel Box of Blocks (Russia, 1920s)