Just a very pleas­ant col­lec­tion of pho­tos from a pri­vate fam­ily archive. All pho­tos were taken in 1950s  —  1960s, in the streets of Yaroslavl, a small town not far from Moscow. Sim­ple things  —  out­door sports, fish­ing, swim­ming, enjoy­ing the music or spend­ing time with the fam­ily  —  these 38 pho­tos are rel­ish­ing small plea­sures and bring­ing a smile to […]

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This myth­i­cal crea­ture of the Soviet kids’ child­hood, some­thing between a Cen­taur and a bicycle, has come into being within a Soviet man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try dri­ven by an over­pow­er­ing desire to “give all the best” to chil­dren. Most bril­liant minds of the Soviet sci­en­tists were work­ing on the cre­ation of the ideal cross-breed. The mutant was offi­cially labeled a “Pedal Horse” […]

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Ear­lier this year, a unique in its pecu­liar­ity museum was opened in Novosi­birsk, the Siber­ian cap­i­tal of Rus­sia. Pri­vately owned, this museum offers an insight into the days long gone, yet long­ing to be remem­bered: a col­lec­tion of the Soviet every­day arti­facts; sim­ple things that still mat­ter.
Please wel­come our new author Maria Yukhi­menko, who has […]

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Just like chil­dren any­where in the world, the Soviet kids needed toys to play with. Cer­tainly the range of toys designed and pro­duced was an envi­able one, by some stan­dards. How­ever, the aes­thetic appear­ance of toys was not a pri­or­ity for Soviet design­ers  —  toys had to be func­tional and edu­ca­tional. Any­thing beyond that, like pleas­ant looks, […]

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