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Summer in Ukhta. Photo by I. Teplitsky (Komi ASSR, 1959).

#vintage cars #1950s #ussr #russia #soviet union #summer

City beach in Sochi. Photo by Aleksandr Cheprunov (1960).

#1960s #ussr #russia #soviet union #summer #beach

"Campfire" by Sergey Shilnikov (1961)

#soviet art #1960s

Andrei Mironov, Anatoly Papanov, Svetlana Svetlichnaya in The Diamond Arm (1969)

#soviet cinema #1960s #ussr

The Amur Bay in Vladivostok. Photo postcard by G. Ilyin (1978).

#70s #viewcards #ussr #russia #soviet union #boats

Nikolai Ustinov. Illustration for A. Bukhar's "Strawberry Season" (1974).

#children's book illustration #1970s #book art

Posting for @painterofhorizons

Hi there! I have been following your blog for years by now and always enjoyed it, so thank you for that. :) I have a rather specific question and wondered if maybe you could help me, or if it would be possible to post a post on your blog trying to find someone who could help me. I'm a (german) historian and there's a very specific topic I'm trying to find information about for a fictional story I'm writing. It's a sole hobby-thing, the circumstance that I'm a professional historian simply means I know how to do the research and I'm really good at it. The topic I am researching is about one particular NGO from Leningrad from 1991 that helped street children (called peace house). I have found some information through german publications by social worker and photograph Peter Ammann, but doing the research in german and english only gets me so gfar online. I would love to extend my research to russian language content, too, but unfortunately my russian ain't good enough for that. Also, I would love to e.g. search in russian press databases, but they are all restricted by one having to have institutional access to them (which obviously I don't have). So basically I am looking for someone who can speak russian and english at least (german would be great, but isn't a requirement) and who would maybe enjoy helping me doing some research on the topic (I will provide all the information I have for them). Even better if it was someone who maybe studies or works at a university or something and has access to russian history/press databases. Do you think it would be possible to make a post on your blog looking for someone who might want to help? Or is that too far away from your blogs content? (That would be totally okay! I will then try to find someone elsewhere.) In any case, do have a good day! :)

#hopefully someone can help

A day in Moscow

I had to go to Moscow for a day for work and luckily I was done with work quickly, so I went for a long walk! Moscow is glorious in summer. They create pop-up gardens on squares and pedestrian streets, filled with roses, lavender, blooming oleanders, ivy, streams and water falls, palm trees, banana plants and bamboo! It creates the much needed shadow, and is just so beautiful.

I visited the Historical Museum, my fav second hand bookstore, a Sever coffee shop (that dates back to 1903), but mostly I went postcard hunting for postcrossing. :'D

#moscow #russia #travel

I showed your post with those stunning pictures of lake Baikal to my boyfriend (we are both big time lake-people) and he went "well, I guess we know where to go cool off a bit next summer"

Haha, Baikal will surely cool you off :)

Locals said it never gets warmer than +14°C in the summer.

#asks