Vitebsk

This section collects view postcards of Vitebsk through 1991. These images record one of Belarus’s oldest cities on the banks of the Western Dvina in the late Soviet period.
Subjects include Moscow Avenue, Pushkin Street, the railway station, and Victory Square with residential blocks. Also featured are the Vitebsk Hotel, the Yakub Kolas State Drama Theatre, and the regional museum in the former town hall.
The collection includes a view of the Western Dvina, an administrative building, the veterinary institute, a monument to V.I. Lenin, a memorial to the city’s liberators, and a bust of Hero of the Soviet Union M.F. Shmyrev.
Dates and captions are useful for collectors and urban historians. The catalogue is expanded with new views of Vitebsk; browse the current cards and compare them with other Belarusian cities in the Old Postcards archive.