![COLLECTION OF SOVIET ERA MATCH BOX COVERS ON SHEETS: A very large collection of USSR matchbox labels on paper sheets, mostly from 1970s and 80s. Collecting matchbox labels, known as Phillumeny, was one of the most favorite hobbies for the Soviet people.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6975/333795/180327230_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718740453)
Soviet Tobacciana
![COLLECTION OF SOVIET ERA MATCH BOX COVERS ON SHEETS: A very large collection of USSR matchbox labels on paper sheets, mostly from 1970s and 80s. Collecting matchbox labels, known as Phillumeny, was one of the most favorite hobbies for the Soviet people.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6975/333795/180327230_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718740453)
![RUSSIAN SOVIET ALBUM OF MATCH BOX LABELS 1960S: A vintage Russian Soviet album of collectible matchbox labels. The design of match labels is dedicated to various topics, including space, famous people of the USSR, Animals, birds, and more. Original](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6975/333795/180327229_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718740453)
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![Auction of Soviet art 3 years ago triggers probe](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/27178077_1_x.jpg)
Auction of Soviet art 3 years ago triggers probe
MOSCOW (AP) – The sale of nine Soviet-era masterpieces that fetched $3 million at a London auction in 2014 is causing uproar in Moscow’s art community, where it was largely perceived as a theft of the family jewels.
![Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to Moscow](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Uz_Lysenko_Bull.jpg)
Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to Moscow
MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched toward a glowing orange globe that may be the sun.
![1970s Soviet space capsule fetches $1.4M at auction](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014_0507_Soyuz_rocket_ASTP_lead.jpg)
1970s Soviet space capsule fetches $1.4M at auction
BRUSSELS (AFP) – A Soviet-era space capsule used for a series of key test flights in the 1970s fetched 1 million euros at auction on Wednesday. The capsule went to an unidentified European buyer after bidding by telephone, Christine de Schaetzen, who heads German auction house Lempertz, told AFP after what it said was the […]
![Poland seeks return of art seized by Soviet Russia in 1945](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2013_0515_PolandPaintings_lead.jpg)
Poland seeks return of art seized by Soviet Russia in 1945
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) – Poland’s culture minister said Wednesday that Russia has yet to return several paintings seized by the Soviet Red Army at the end of World War II, including one by Flemish artist Brueghel. “Of 31 official restitution requests by Poland, 18 concern works located in Russia,” Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski told reporters. […]