"The Country of October is the Birthplace of Cosmonautics", Soviet poster On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world by...

Soviet May Day poster -- Daily LIFT #804

Soviet stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Plekhanov, 1956 From USSR Magazine, September 1963: "September 25,...

Fidel Castro enjoying a ride in the snow with some Soviet children during his 1963 trip to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #801

Glory to Soviet Athletes!, Soviet stamp. 1972 -- Daily LIFT #799 The stamp was issued to honour the first participation of the USSR in...

Peace to All Peoples!, poster, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #797

Monument of Glory to the Soldiers and Partisans - Liberators of Bryansk, USSR 1973 On September 17, 1943 the forces of the Red Army...

Lenin, Soviet Poster 1969 -- Daily LIFT #796

The city of Vancouver, Washington (now with a population of around 190,000) in the United States has a monument and major street...

On September 14, 1959 the Soviet Luna 2 spacecraft became the first in history to reach the surface of the moon and in doing so the first...

At the Lenin Museum, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #790

Let us strengthen the class solidarity and cooperation of all communists of all countries in the struggle for peace and socialism, poster...

Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959 -- Daily LIFT #787 The Spartakiad was a...

"I might say that communism destroyed itself, that it committed suicide in the USSR, and that it had no reason for committing suicide. It...

The Feat of the Soviet People is Immortal, poster, USSR 1980s -- Daily LIFT #784 The poster celebrated the victory of all the united...

Soviet stamp for the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth -- Daily LIFT #783

Maxim Gorky with a group of Soviet schoolchildren, early 1930s -- Daily LIFT #780. From a History of the Soviet Union, 1968: "Maxim Gorky...

On August 20, 1918 Lenin wrote his famous "Letter to American Workers". The Bolshevik Revolution was in a difficult and dangerous...

Today we are going to take a look at the Soviet Black Sea resort city of Sochi with photos and information from 1962, 1972 and 1978. With...

Emblem of the Tuvan People's Republic (1933-1939) The Tuvan People's Republic was formed on August 14, 1921. It was one of three...