Visuals from behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet (and bits of pre/post-Soviet) photography, architecture & design. USSR propaganda art. Curated by @variainayurt
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MATRYOSHKA Triblend Shirt inspired by 1990 Soviet poster "Beware of casual hook-ups!"
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Viktor Tsoi in front of the Kino rock band poster at the Leningrad Rock Club. Photo by Natasha Vasilyeva-Hull, USSR, 1984.
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If you are curious about Russian (or former Soviet Union) math books, I highly recommend you check out this famous Calculus book (comes in 2 volumes) by Nikolai Piskunov. It has influenced students worldwide through the years 💪😎
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A fifteen-year-old Anastasiia Tkachenko wearing traditional Ukrainian attire in Merefa, Ukraine, on August 21, 1939...
She looks composed. Almost serene. She is dressed in an embroidered vyshyvanka (traditional shirt) and a dark vest, adorned with layered beaded necklaces (zardanky or coral beads) and a floral headpiece (vinok) with long ribbons hanging down the sides.
But the girl in this photograph had already survived something that had destroyed much of her family.
During the Holodomor of 1932–1933, Anastasiia lost her father, a younger brother, and two sisters. She and her brother Semen survived because their mother found work at an orphanage in Merefa and was able to bring her two remaining children with her.
The famine devastated communities across Soviet Ukraine. In Merefa alone, records associated with the Holodomor memorial project identify roughly 1,200 victims and a mass burial site near the railway station.
Anastasiia was still a child when she lived through it.
Six years later, someone pressed a camera shutter.
That ordinary moment is what makes this photograph so difficult to look at once you know the story. She is not pictured starving. She is not surrounded by ruins. She is simply fifteen, dressed beautifully, standing in front of a camera after surviving years that had already taken her father and three of her siblings.
And she kept living.
Anastasiia Tkachenko survived into old age, dying on April 26, 2018, at 94.
The photograph remained in her grandson’s family archive, a small surviving piece of one woman’s life after enormous loss.
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This is the coat of arms of Zheleznogorsk, a formerly closed city and where Russia produced plutonium. It shows a bear tearing apart an atom.
Get it on a cotton shirt 👇
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SOVIET SPACE DOGS Triblend Shirt
This soft unisex T-shirt lists the names of 3 Soviet cosmonaut dogs (Laika, Belka and Strelka), as well as their spacecraft Sputnik.
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Our new COSMONAUTS Shirt features a trio of Soviet cosmonauts: one human and three space dogs: Laika, Belka and Strelka.
The shirt is 100% cotton. Double stitching on the neckline & sleeves add more durability for daily wear and casual space missions🚀
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Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka were the first animals to enter space and return to Earth safely in August 1960.
BELKA & STRELKA Unisex Shirt
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