Strawberry picking, photo by Yevgeny Shulepov (1978)
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.
Shop girls of the Flower department of Gruziya (Georgia) store in Moscow. Photo by V. Sobolev (March 1987)
“To education, to work, to social life.”
“Let us expand the network of nurseries and public canteens, let us free millions of women to participate in socialist construction.”
Poster from the USSR (1933)
A young Muscovite Larochka Lykova getting a massage from the therapist of a local clinic, A. Dondukova. Photo by R. Fyodorov (1982)
Tea leaf picker (1956)
In one of the workshops of the Paris Commune shoe factory. Photo by V. Sobolev (Moscow, 1949)
“Semester of Work” by A. Safargalin (1968)
Dispatcher of the Sokolniki metro checkpoint (1958)
Women picking cherries, photo by Oleg Litvin and Albert Tavakalov (1979)
1936. A team of metro builders
led by foreman Tatyana Fyodorova (left), who was only 20 at the time. Later, Fyodorova went on to become the deputy head of Mosmetrostroy (the company that builds the Moscow metro).
The best seamstress of the Women’s Fashion association, udarnik (shock worker), Komsomol member Lyudmila Nikolayeva met the production quota of 1973 ahead of schedule. Photo by V. Velikzhanin (1974)
A pharmacist of Moscow pharmacy #171 at work. Photo by M. Filimonov (1964)
Welder of Minsk Refrigerator Plant. Photo by Vladimir Shuba (1988)
Waitresses in the banquet hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Photo by Yu. Sadovnikov (1976)
Yelena Kharitonova, shop assistant of the pop music department in Gramplastinka record store. Photo by M. Gankin (1967)