May Day poster by Nina Vatolina (1950s)

May 1 (Labour Day) postcard by G. Bodrova and M. Sapozhnikov (1962)

Uzbek May Day postcard (1960s) "May, Labour, Peace" is the traditional Soviet May Day slogan.

May Day postcard (USSR, 1960s)

"Apple Blossom Twig" by Mikhail Kugach (1971)

Tsiolkovsky Street in Ryazan. Photo by Mark Redkin (Russia, 1967).

"Who Said That Football Isn't a Women's Game?" by Nikolai Yesalov (1954)

"The War Has Ended" (study) by Vasily Pochitalov (1946)

Boy and cat in the attic. Photo by Aleksandr Kruzhkov, 1978 (Turkovo village, Kalinin oblast, USSR).

Photo by Igor Gnevashev (1960s)

View of the Moscow Kremlin (1930s-40s)

"The Spring Window" by Vlaidmir Shtranikh (1974)

Photo by Igor Gnevashev (1980s)

Wooden desk (USSR, 1940s)

"In Spring" by N. Tulupov (1923)

Biplane flying over the mountains (USSR, 1930s)

"Drizzle" by Aleksey Makarov (1964)

"May. Dandelions in Bloom" by Valentin Sidorov (1989)

"Motherhood" by Mariya Rudnitskaya (1949)

"Congratulations!" (in Estonian and Rusian) Photo postcard by B. Maksimov (1974)