Front and back covers of Murzilka, April 1957

Yuri Gagarin playing open air badminton as part of his space flight preparation (1960-61)

'Having orbited the Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. Humans, let us preserve and increase the beauty, not destroy it!'

― Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin with a camera (1965)

Happy Cosmonautics Day!

Let's celebrate all of the people who think big, branch into the unknown and create the future.

Cover of the Young Naturalist (April 1961)

'The Spring Flights' by Yevgeny Vinokurov (1984)

Nikolai Ustinov. Illustrations for Gennady Snegiryov's 'In Different Lands' (1981).

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1917)

'On the Road' by Vasily Tevyashov (1987)

Female figure at the base of one of the Rostral columns overlooking the Peter and Paul fortress.

Leningrad. Photo postcard by B. Raskin (1969).

'Happy holiday!'
Postcard by G. Kostenko (1969)

Leningrad. Postcards by N. Pavlov, V. Boriskovich, L. Oskorbin, V. Pirker (1958).

Today's flea market at Udelnaya (in St Petersburg) was huge, crowded and very dirty.

Leningrad. Cover of a postcard set from 1958. Art by L. Oskorbin.

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov

Ruined bell tower of the Kazanskaya church in Tovarischevo village (Moscow region). Photo by Valery Usmanov (Russia, 1976).

'In the Metro' by Samuil Adlivankin (1945)

Sending a paper boat down the stream - a traditional activity of early spring when snow begins to melt. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 1960s).

'Grey Still Life' by Igor Yermolayev (1986)