Behind the iron curtain, the final frontier: Soviet space art – in pictures

With more than 250 artworks sourced from cold war-era Russian magazines, Alexandra Sankova's book Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR (Phaidon 24.95), produced with the Moscow Design Museum, explores "the dream of conquering space".

One of the most vibrant publications was Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth) its "unearthly palettes of pink-violet and ochre-scarlet colours", says Sankova, pulling readers into stories of "inventions and innovations, the mysterious and unknown".