Monday, December 31, 2018

Colorful Soviet-era Happy New Year postcards

1. С новым годом! "Happy New Year!" in Russian. This card, featuring a rocket, a parachuting cosmonaut and a tree, was published and mailed in 1982.


2. С новым годом! "Happy New Year!" in Russian. This card, featuring a boy with a matching outfit, peace doves and a science book, was published and mailed in 1962. The cursive handwriting on the back is lovely and is shown in the second photo below.



3. з новим роком! "Happy New Year!" in Ukrainian. This card, featuring adorable Ded Moroz and bear figures alongside a pastel-colored rocket in a cottonball forest, was published in 1979.


4. С новым годом! "Happy New Year!" in Russian. This card, featuring a letter-delivering young cosmonaut in a rocket ship with a Christmas tree and bunny rabbit, was published in 1981, the year before Samantha Smith's letter to Yuri Andropov.

1 comment:

  1. You're missing the "B" character (pronounced like a "v") in the middle word of your Russian translation of "Happy new year!" in items #1, #2, and #4 above.

    Your Ukrainian expression in #3 is fine.

    -- M.F.

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