Soviet and vintage New Year cards: the best retro greetings

New Year's Eve is a holiday loved by everyone. For everyone, it represents something special. Children see it as magic and expect gifts, and adults see it as an opportunity to relax and renew themselves. Some look forward to enjoying a winter fairy tale and taking a break from work. For such a beautiful and important holiday "Izvestia" has prepared beautiful cards for friends, relatives and acquaintances, as well as greetings in verse and prose, which can be sent by message or read aloud.

Soviet greeting cards for New Year's Eve

Morning (Alexander Tvardovsky)

Twirling lightly and ineptly,
A snowflake sat on the glass.
It was snowing at night, thick and white.
The snow made the room bright.

A little powdery fluff of flying snow,
And the winter sun rises
Like every day is fuller and better,
Let the new year be better

And the days that people celebrate,
And hours like this hour
There'll be many more when you and I are here
And many, many more after us.

"Today can be called a truly long-awaited day! That's why I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Let everything that you do not want in the coming year, 2025, remain in the outgoing year, 2024, and let it begin with a smile on your face. May your most cherished wishes come true and your relatives be healthy. Happy New Year!".

"Beloved, I congratulate you on the New Year! May the coming year be filled with joy, unforgettable events and bright emotions. I wish you to be surrounded by kind people, joy, luck and happiness. Happy holiday!"

Vintage Russian New Year cards

New Year (Vladislav Khodasevich)

"Happy New Year!" How clear the smile is!
"Happy New Year!" - "Darling, we're together!"
There's a fish in the aquarium at the window
Quietly glistening with a golden feather.
On a bright morning, at the window in the living room,
A sweet image, a sweet voice.
A kiss fragrant and innocent.....
A new year! Happy! Golden!
Who's happier than me today?
Who jokes more modestly about fate?
What's more beautiful than a New Year's fairy tale,
A lonely fairy tale about you?

"On this wonderful and magical day I want to wish you a Happy New Year from the bottom of my heart! I wish the fulfillment of all your dreams, be happy, cheerful, healthy and cheerful. Let all the problems remain in the passing year, and the new one will be a year of opportunities and success for you. Happy New Year!"

"Already today the chimes will strike and the New Year 2025 will come. May the next 365 days be truly happy, successful and full of events for you! I wish you health, success at work, reaching new heights and strong love. Happy New Year!"

New Year's retro posters and pictures

"Dear, (name), I congratulate you on the coming New Year! The passing year, 2024, was full of events both good and bad. Therefore, I wish that the 2025th will be even more successful, even happier and even luckier for you. I wish you less grief and boredom, more smiles and joy with each new day. The next 12 months will definitely make you happy!"

To friends on New Year's Eve (Dmitry Venevitinov)

Friends, the new year is here!
Forget old sorrows,
And days of sorrow and days of worry,
And all the things that killed joy;

But don't forget the clear days,
The fun, the light-footed merriment,
The golden hours that are sweet to the heart,
And old, sincere friends.

Live new in the new year,
Leave old dreams behind
And all the things that don't make you happy
but only desires!

Still in this new year
Love jokes, games, joy
And old, sincere friends.
And the sweetness of lips in the frosty silence!...

Friends! Celebrate the new year
In the circle of your relatives, in the midst of freedom:
Let it flow for you, friends,
Like the happy years of childhood.

But in the midst of Petropolis
Don't forget the sounds of lyre,
The sweet and peaceful occupations,
And old, sincere friends.

"I congratulate you on the beginning of this beautiful and magical period. The New Year is a fairy tale, so may it bring you a mountain of presents from Santa Claus, joy and good events. Happy New Year!"