1950s
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.
M. Ostapenko, tram driver in Moscow (1951)
I’m trying to see if her dress is parachute-patterned, what do you think?
Young workers mount the transformer (1967)
Tamara Fomichyova, AN-2 pilot in Krasnodarsky krai of Russia. Works in agriculture. Photo by I. Zhuravlyov, published in Rabotnitsa (’Working Woman’) magazine in 1974.
August covers of Rabotnitsa magazine, 1970s
Phone booth at a factory. Image found in Rabotnitsa magazine from October 1969
“Used to be virgin lands. New houses take place of tents.”
Postcard from 1962 about the .
Postcard by V. Borisova, 1977
Woman in art - collection of 50 vintage postcards from Soviet Union ()
2 vintage postcards about machine weavers, art by N. Kasatkin
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