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I ship to most countries of the world, including USA and UK. I can't ship to the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Poland.

Shipping price is noted in each post - that's registered international shipping (comes with a tracking number). I ship from Russia via Russian Post.

I'm happy to combine shipping if you buy more than one item!

Payment

As a citizen of Russia I can't use PayPal anymore, so I take payments through Boosty.to. It's a Russian Patreon-like service. You will need to create an account, and then you'll be able to pay via PayPal or your credit card.

Shipping from Russia to the UK normally takes 2-3 weeks. Overseas, 3-4 weeks. If you don't receive your package after 8 weeks, please let me know and we'll work something out.

I used to have an Etsy shop before February 2022 and had over 10,000 positive reviews there (name was SovietPostcards as well). I'm a reliable seller. My current reviews are tumblr posts made by buyers. :)

Glass ornaments for the New Year. Photo by B. Vdovenko (USSR, Dec. 20, 1938).

Children's World store decorated for the New Year. Photo by P. Nosov (Moscow, 1969).

The large letters read "Happy New Year".

Winter forest on Soviet New Year postcards (1965-68).

Photos by A. Bogdanov, V. Panov, N. Matatov, G. Kostenko.

Excerpt from "How the Hedgehog and the Bear Celebrated New Year" (USSR, 1975)

Cover of Murzilka, Dec. 1956

Petrovsky Passage store decorated for New Year. Photo by A. Agapov (Moscow, 1955).

Snow in Kazan. Photo by Rustam Mukhametzyanov (USSR, 1967).

Happy friends. Illustration from a backcover of "Funny Pictures" (a Soviet children's magazine). Artist L. Filippova, 1980s.

Selling New Year decorations in the Children's World department store (Moscow, 1959)

Sledding in the Fili park. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Moscow, Jan. 1972).

Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) at the New Year ornament department of Detsky Mir (Children's World) store in Moscow, 1967

Winter in Tashkent. The publishing house of the Central Committee of Uzbekistan's Communist Party. Photo by Miron Penson (1989).

Soviet postcard from 1960s.

I didn't find any info on this one, but it's so beautiful!

"A Silent Evening" by Nikolai Barchenkov (1968)

"A Bit of Sports of Various Sorts" by E. Polonskaya, illustrated by M. Razulevich (USSR, 1930)