• Large authentic Soviet vintage school chart on Russian language with cosy colourful illustrations of children, autumn scenes, and text in Russian.
  • USSR vintage poster detail showing a young girl sitting in a pink armchair and reading a book, with a lamp beside her and a cat at her feet. Cyrillic text appears around the illustrated scene.
  • USSR vintage poster detail about the first day of school featuring an illustration of a girl in a school uniform dress holding a bouquet of flowers and a boy in a school suit, with Russian text '1st of September' on a light blue banner.
  • USSR vintage poster detail showing 1 October on a calendar, showing two children in a forest among orange and yellow leaves and mushrooms. A boy stands holding a mushroom and wears a blue jacket, brown hat, and red scarf; while a girl kneels in a pink dress and holds leaves.
  • Detail of a Soviet vintage poster showing children with balloons, red flag and a USSR hammer and sickle flag walking in celebration an October Revolution of 1917.
  • A close-up of a vintage USSR poster showing part of a cat on the left, a forest scene on the right, and large black lettering Saying Kyiv 1985.
  • Detail of a USSR vintage poster showing an illustration of a summer day with a boy walking through a beautiful natural landscape while holding a basket.
  • Detail of a USSR vintage school poster featuring an illustration of a young girl reading in a pink armchair beside a lamp, with large russian text at the top and bottom.
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1985 Original Soviet Vintage School Poster – Autumn Educational Chart in Russian Phonetics, Kyiv

1985 Original Soviet Vintage School Poster – Autumn Educational Chart in Russian Phonetics, Kyiv

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A beautiful original vintage school poster from Kyiv, printed in 1985, filled with the colours and atmosphere of autumn. September, October and November appear in a series of wonderfully nostalgic scenes of childhood and changing seasons, including a little girl reading beside a lamp with her cat curled up at her feet.
Used in primary schools to teach phonetics and grammar and soft consonants in the Russian language. 
From the collection of a retired teacher used in classrooms in Ukraine.
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SIZE:
90 x 61cm

The middle panel illustrates the three autumn months (September, October, and November) chosen specifically as phonetic examples of words ending in a soft consonant sound (-брь / -br').
September 1st is traditionally the first day of school after summer holidays. And November 7th was a state holiday in the USSR celebrating the October Revolution of 1917.

CONDITION:
Good vintage with subtle signs of classroom use. Light edge wear is reinforced from the reverse with a tiny bit of archival tape (last photo). A genuine piece of Soviet-era educational history. Please enlarge photos for details.

Ships rolled up, unframed.

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