Cosmonaut.
Combing through the ol’ archives today, I ran across this scan I made awhile back. It’s from a Russian first day cover (a printed envelope issued by the post office to commemorate an event.) What you’re seeing is only a couple inches across, but I’m showing it large because I love the printing–and, of course, the illustration.
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February 15th, 2011 at 7:28 pm
The print is in genuine Soviet font and this illustration technique was widely used for books, banners and other printed media in the Soviet Union at that time. The text on this picture says “Glory to Labor and Science! April 12, the year 1962″. It commemorates the flight of the first cosmonaut into the Space and depicts Yuri Gagarin.
I was looking for a picture of a cosmonaut (Russian astronaut) and landed on this page. It reminded me about our school library back in the days and the books we had there. Those are old books now, containing old ideology, nobody reads them these days.. Nevertheless, they represent a valuable part of our past. The smell and the feel of an old book is priceless.
What concerns stamps and envelopes, I used to collect stamps when I was a kid. Those small pieces of paper had a miraculous power over me. I could sit over the album arranging and rearranging them the whole night away:)