Soviet Postcards

This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector. Tips: hipolink.me/sovietpostcards/tips

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Uglich processed cheese (1950s)

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"By the Samovar. Tea Drinking" by Tatyana Tolstaya (1950)

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Kindergarten kids out walking. Photo by Viktor Gorkin (USSR, 1960s).

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Rose exhibition in Donetsk (1986)

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On the terrace of a restaurant at the Issyk lake. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Kazakhstan, 1960s).

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Sorry prev for the jumpscare, but Issyk here refers to Esik Lake in the Almaty region. Unfortunately, their names in Russian are the same, and that's what's carried over into English.

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Strawberry harvest in the New Life kolkhoz in Kuibyshev oblast. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha (USSR, 1938).

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On the merry-go-round. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Volzhsky, Volgograd oblast, 1967).

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Cover and back cover of "Young Naturalist", March 1976

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Postcards from lake Baikal

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Postcard by G. Popov (USSR, 1982)

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In the women's hairdressing salon No. 36. Photo by M. Ozersky, B. Kaufman (Moscow, July 1964).

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Sisters Lena and Marina Sosenkov (Kharkiv, 1962)

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"My motherland is the USSR" by I. Koshkaryov. Illustration from the "Young Naturalist", Dec. 1975.

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"Wildflowers" by Yuri Volkov (USSR, 1960s)

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On the terrace of a restaurant at the Issyk lake. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Kazakhstan, 1960s).

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City scene. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Volzhsky, Volgograd oblast, 1967).

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Back cover of the "Young Naturalist", Dec. 1975