In 1959, a Soviet watch­maker Mash­Pri­bor­In­Torg had what’s now called a solid mar­ket share of all watches and clocks made in the USSR. This ugly acronym stood for Machin­ery and Gad­get Over­seas Trade, and the fac­tory made all the famous Soviet brands of watches which could be found in every house­hold: Polet (Flight), Slava (Glory), […]

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In about six weeks this remark­able man will cel­e­brate his 80^th Birth­day. Who is he? The most pop­u­lar clown of the Soviet Union, also known as the Sun­shine Clown, Oleg Popov is true icon of its own. Born in 1930, he had on of the tough­est upbring­ings ever  —  yet he man­aged to become one of most […]

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We are very for­tu­nate to have gained the access to the col­lec­tion of pho­tographs below  —  they have come from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of Eugene Orlov, a keen pho­tog­ra­pher of 1960s, scanned by his grand­son. Por­trayed is a series of shots from a sum­mer walk in the Gorky Park, an iconic fam­ily recre­ational venue in Moscow. Please […]

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Warm kitty, Sleepy Kitty, Purr Purr Purr.
For those of you who found the pre­vi­ous post a tad too seri­ous (and we always wel­come you feed­back!), here’s a set of illus­tra­tions for a chil­drens’ book Look At These Kit­tens! by Georgy Karlov. Please retweet and stay tuned! Cheers

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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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