Yury Gagarin visiting cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky to celebrate his son Valerik’s 5th birthday. Valerik is playing with a toy robot and a toy planet rover - both toys hardly available for the general public.
This photo was taken shortly before Yury’s death in 1968.
Soviet doll factory
Old Soviet wind up toy
1960s
Vintage Soviet spun cotton tree ornaments. I love the little pioneer boy!
Soviet wooden toys, 1960s
Antique Russian board game “Home Race Track” (pre-1917)
Vintage animal dominoes designed by K. Zotov (1954)
Soviet Moon Rover toy
Vintage Soviet toy rover
Soviet doll house kitchen (c. early 1980s)
If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info:
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)