Card Stalin Street. Coloma, 1959

This 1959 view postcard shows Stalin Street in Kolomyja.

What is shown on the postcard

The image captures an urban avenue with buildings, pavements, sparse traffic, and shop signs — a street perspective of a mid-20th-century Prykarpattia district centre.

Historical note

Streets named after Stalin were common in Soviet cities until the post-Stalin reassessment. Many were renamed in the 1950s–1960s; the card records the period toponym.

Present day

The street was later renamed (today usually Shevchenko Street). The postcard preserves the 1959 Soviet place name.

Location (map)

Address: Stalin Street, Kolomyja, Ukraine

Coordinates: 48.527000, 25.038500
(Google Maps)

Coordinate source: Open map data, Kolomyja.

Questions and answers

• What is shown? Stalin Street in Kolomyja.
• What year? 1959.
• Does the name survive? The street was later renamed.

See also

• Kolomyja postcards
• 1959 postcards

The «Old Postcards» archive includes other views of Kolomyja from 1959.