FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the Bronze Horseman statue. The Bronze Horseman is a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7th. of August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with a statue of Ivan Goncharov. Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1987, with the image of a statue of Maironis. Maironis (1862-1932) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and the greatest and most-known Lithuanian poet, especially of the period of the Lithuanian press ban. He was called the Bard of Lithuanian National Revival Maironis was active in public life. The Maironian school in Lithuanian literature was named after him.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1988, with the famous “Motherland Calls” statue. The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” in Volgograd, Russia, former Stalingrad. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 metres (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest statue of a woman in the world. The construction of the monument was started in 1959 and completed in 1967. It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel. It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1982, with a bust of Eliza Orzeszkowa. Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, made in 1988. The text on the envelope reads:”Novgorod. Monument Of Alexander Nevsky”. Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (1221-1263) served as Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus’ history. Commonly regarded as a key figure of medieval Rus’, Alexander was a grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over German and Swedish invaders. He preserved separate statehood and Orthodoxy, agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. Metropolite Macarius canonized Alexander Nevsky as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1985. The text on the envelope reads:”12 April, Cosmonautics Day”. Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962. Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space. On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1985. The text on the envelope reads:”12th. Festival Of Youths And Students, Moscow 1985”. The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students was a festival held in Moscow from July 27 to August 3, 1985.[The festival was attended by 26,000 people from 157 countries. The slogan of the festival was “For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, made in 1990. The text on the envelope reads:”Happy Holiday!” and 1917. 1917 was the year of the October Revolution. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1975. The text on the envelope reads:”Writer E. N. Permitin”. Efim Nikolaevich Permitin (1895/1896-1971) was a journalist and writer. In the First World War he commanded a platoon, then a company of scouts. After the February Revolution, he was elected to the regimental committee, during the Civil War he fought in Siberia against the Kolchakites, at the end of the war he served as the military commandant of Ust-Kamenogorsk. Demobilized after being wounded by shrapnel in the chest, he worked as a school teacher and in the Ust-Kamenogorsk department of public education. He wrote several books.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”May 1″. May 1 is Labour Day. Labour Day (or International Worker’s Day) is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists and anarchists. Labour day was established in 1890 as an international protest day for demanding a 8 hour working day, labour rights and for keeping the peace.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1990. The text on the envelope reads:”May 19 is the birthday of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V. I. Lenin”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1977. The text on the envelope reads:”XX years of the space age. Cosmonautics in the service of the national economy of the USSR”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1987. The text on the envelope reads:”North Pole-1″. North Pole-1 was the world’s first Soviet manned drifting station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research. North Pole-1 was established on 21 May 1937 and officially opened on 6 June, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes Sever-1, led by Otto Schmidt. The expedition had been airlifted by aviation units. On 19 February 1938 the Soviet ice breakers Taimyr and Murman took four polar explorers off the station close to the eastern coast of Greenland. They arrived in Leningrad on 15 March on board the icebreaker Yermak. The expedition members, hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov, geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov, radioman Ernst Krenkel, and the commander Ivan Papanin, were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1983. The text on the envelope reads:”March 8″, wich is International Woman’s Day. After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women’s Day on February 28, 1909, in New York, German revolutionary Clara Zetkin proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman’s Conference that 8 March be honored as a day annually in memory of working women. The day has been celebrated as International Women’s Day or International Working Women’s Day ever since. In 1917, March 8 became a national holiday in the USSR. The day was mostly celebrated by the socialists movements and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations began celebrating the day in 1975.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1981. The text on the envelope reads:”Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Hero of Socialist Labor”. Professor Georgy Nestorovich Speransky, known as the founder of Russian neonatology. He was the organizer, Director and scientific leader of the first State Research Institute of Maternity and Infant Care in the USSR which later was reorganized as the State Research Institute of Paediatrics of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. He organized the first Russian medical department of childhood diseases at the Central Institute of Continuing Education for Medical Doctors, where he and his colleagues taught physiology and pathology. He was one of the initiators of a free state system of maternity and infant health care and infant mortality was decreased tenfold.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1981. The text on the envelope reads:”Y. gagarin of the Smolensk region”, and:”Monument of Yuir Gagarin”. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1977. The text on the envelope reads:”F.G. Chuchin Professional revolutionary initiator and one of the creators of Soviet philatel”. Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin (1883-1942) was an official in the Soviet government who was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. He also was an author on numismatic and philatelic topics. In 1924, he published Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki (paper banknotes) which has become a standard work on the subject. In 1925, as Commissioner for Philately, Chuchin published his Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps,[4] the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the standard used for those issues. In 1984, John Barefoot published a revised edition of Chuchin’s catalogue as volume 14 of his European Philately series.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”To the 150th anniversary of the birth of Kharkiv, a monument to comrade Shevchenko”. Kharkiv is a city in the Urkaine. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though the language of his poems was different from the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory October” and below:”Happy Holiday”. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory October!”. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
FDC made in the Soviet Union made in 1966. The text on the envelope reads:”50 Years Murmansk”. Murmansk is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It sits on both slopes and banks of a modest ria or fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea. Its bulk is on the east bank of the inlet. The city is 108 kilometres (67 mi) from the border with Norway and 182 kilometres (113 mi) from the Finnish border. The city is named for the Murman Coast, which is in turn derived from an archaic term in Russian for “Norwegian”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the envelope reads:”To the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nikolay Zelinsky”. Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky (1861-1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Zelinsky studied at the University of Odessa and at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen in Germany. Zelinsky was one of the founders of theory on organic catalysis. He was the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1962. The text on the envelope reads:”Crimea. In the pioneer camp Artek”. Artek is an international children center (a former Young Pioneer camp) on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag. It was established on 16 June 1925. The camp first hosted only 80 children but then grew rapidly. In 1969 it had an area of 3.2 km² (790 acres). The camp consisted of 150 buildings, including three medical facilities, a school, the film studio Artekfilm, three swimming pools, a stadium with a seating capacity of 7,000 and playgrounds for various other activities. Unlike most of the young pioneer camps, Artek was an all-year camp, due to the warm climate. Artek was considered to be a privilege for Soviet children during its existence, as well as for children from other communist countries. During its heyday, 27,000 children a year vacationed at Artek. Between 1925 and 1969 the camp hosted 300,000 children including more than 13,000 children from 70 foreign countries. After the breaking up of the Young Pioneers in 1991 its prestige declined, though it remained a popular vacation destination.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Gorky. House of communication”. Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod) is a town in central Russia.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Belarus. Vawkavysk. Monument P.I. Bagration”. Vawkavysk is a town in Belarus. Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812) was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1805 Russia joined the coalition against Napoleon. After the collapse of the Austrians at Ulm in October 1805, Bagration won praise for his successful defense in the Battle of Schöngrabern (November 1805) that allowed Russian forces to withdraw and unite with the main Russian army of Mikhail Kutuzov. In December 1805 the combined Russo-Austrian army suffered defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz, where Bagration commanded the allied right wing against the French under Jean Lannes. Later he commanded Russian troops in the Finnish War (1808-1809) against Sweden and in another war against the Turks (1806–1812) on the Danube. During the French invasion of Russia in 1812, Bagration commanded one of two large Russian armies (Barclay de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard actions. The Russians failed to stop the French advance at the Battle of Smolensk in August 1812. Barclay had proposed a scorched-earth retreat that the Emperor Alexander I of Russia had approved, although Bagration preferred to confront the French in a major battle. Mikhail Kutuzov succeeded Barclay as Commander-in-Chief but continued his policy until the Battle of Borodino (7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1812) near Moscow. Bagration commanded the left wing around what became known as the Bagration flèches at Borodino, where he was mortally wounded; he died a couple of weeks later. Originally buried at a local church, in 1839 he was reburied on the battlefield of Borodino.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the envelope reads:”Siberia. In the upper reaces of Yenisey”. The Yenisey is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea. The Yenisey divides the Western Siberian Plain in the west from the Central Siberian Plateau to the east; it drains a large part of central Siberia. It is the central one of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Lena). The maximum depth of the Yenisey is 24 metres (80 ft) and the average depth is 14 metres (45 ft). The depth of river outflow is 32 metres (106 ft) and inflow is 31 metres (101 ft).
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Luhansk”. Luhansk (formerly known as Voroshilovgrad) is a city in eastern Ukraine. The current population is estimated to be 399,559 (2021 est.). On 5 November 1935, the city was renamed Voroshilovgrad in honour of Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov. On 5 March 1958, with the call of Khrushchev not to give names of living people to cities, the old name was reinstated. On 5 January 1970, after the death of Voroshilov on 2 December 1969, the name changed again to Voroshilovgrad. Finally, on 4 May 1990, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city back its original name.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”Sverdlovsk. The outside. Yakov Sverdlov”. Sverdlovsk (now known as Yekaterinburg) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. It has a population of roughly 1.5 million residents,mup to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia’s main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the “Third capital of Russia”, as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism. Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union, although it was not established until 1922, three years after his death. Sverdlov died in March 1919 during the Spanish flu at the age of 33 and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The city of Yekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in his honour.
Yakov SverdlovSverdlov and Vladimir Lenin open the monument to Karl Marx in 1918
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. Made in 1984. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, made in 1989. The text on the postcard reads:”Geat October Glory!″. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, made in 1984. The text on the postcard reads:”Glory Great October!″. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, made in 1990. The text on the postcard reads:”October 1917″. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union with inlay. The front of the postcard says:”Glory October”. The text on the inlay reads:”I ask you to accept my heartfelt congratulations on the anniversary of Great October and wishes of good health, prosperity to the family and further fruitful success in work for the benefit of the socialist motherland”. To commemorate the October Revolution. Made in 1980. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union. The postcard says:”Happy October!”. To commemorate the October Revolution. Made in 1983. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union. The postcard says:”Happy October!”. To commemorate the October Revolution. Made in 1985. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. Made in 1979. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. Made in 1991. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. Made in 1991. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”March 9”. Made in 1990. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard made in the Soviet Union to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”March 9”. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague. A quote of Stalin: “Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a painting of an impression of the October Revolution in the city of Leningrad (then and now called St. Petersburg).
Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture of the Ivan Chernyakhovsky statue in Vilnius. Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (1907-1945) was the youngest-ever Soviet General of the army. For his leadership during World War II he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union twice. He died from wounds received outside Königsberg at age 37 while in command of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Due to the rapid pre-war expansion of the military and 1937–1938 military purges, he quickly rose in rank. In 1938 he became commander of the 9th Light Tank Brigade. In March 1941 he became the commander of the 28th Tank Division in the Baltic Military District.
Postcard from the Soviet Union and made in 1981. On the postcard is a picture made in 1936 probably in Spain. Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) was a Russian writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian. As a friend of many of the European Left, Ehrenburg was frequently allowed by Stalin to visit Europe and to campaign for peace and socialism. He arrived in Spain in late August 1936 as an Izvestia correspondent and was involved in propaganda and military activity as well as reporting. In July 1937 he attended the Second International Writers’ Congress, the purpose of which was to discuss the attitude of intellectuals to the war, held in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid and attended by many writers including André Malraux, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Spender and Pablo Neruda.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument To The Heroes (1812)”, when Napolean invaded Russia but failed to win the war.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument M.N. Kutuzov”. Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745-1813) was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs: Empress Catherine II, and Emperors Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was shot in the head twice while fighting the Turks (1774 and 1788) and survived the serious injuries seemingly against all odds. He defeated Napoleon as commander-in-chief using attrition warfare in the Patriotic war of 1812. Alexander I wrote that Europe will remember him as one of the famous commanders and that Russia will never forget his worthiness.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. On the postcard there is Lenin’s Hut. In November 1917 a revolution in Russia (November Revolution) ended the Tjarist reign over Russia. The new government considerd Lenin as a terrorist and he went into hiding. He lived secretly in a forest north of St. Petersburg disguised as a hayfarmer. He shaved his baird and wore a wig. In this period he wrote serveral articles for newspapers and recieved fresh fruit daily. Also he worked on theoretical political works and prepared for the October Revolution. He lived in a hut made of branches. After Lenin’s death the hay hut was recreated on the site and also statues were placed and a museum. In the Soviet era the site had to be visited by students.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. 1974. The text on teh back of the card reads:”Belgrade memorial cemetery of those who died for the liberation of the city”.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. 1974. The text on teh back of the card reads:”Monument to Peter I’. The statue is standing in St. Petersburg, at the time when the postcard was made known as Leningrad.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”At the monument to the soldiers of the Buryats who died the death of heroes during the Great Patriotic War” a newly married couple puts flowers at the monument. Buryats is a one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the other being the Yakuts.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1973. The text on the card reads:”Orenburg Obelisk to the soldiers who fell on the fronts during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945″. On teh postcard there are Komsomol children laying flowers.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the picture of a obelisk commemoration the foundation of Pavlovsk wich is a town near St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
Postcard from the Soviet Union with a painting from Boris Ioganson and shows celebration of the defeating Nazi Germany on May 9. Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (1893-1973) was a Russian and Soviet painter. Ioganson was born in Moscow. His father’s Swedish ancestors russified the surname “Johansson” into “Ioganson”. Ioganson attended the Moscow School of Art and studied under Kasatkin and Malyutin.
Postcard from the Soviet Union with a painting from Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalya. Pavel (1899-1961) was aSoviet painter and graphic artist, teacher, Professor and academician of the Academy of arts of the USSR, people’s artist of the RSFSR (1956) and winner of two Stalin prizes (1942, 1949). And he was a member of the CPSU since 1952 (Communist Party Soviet Union).
Postcard from the Soviet Union made in 1980. With a painting by Fedor Krichevsky. Fedor G. Krichevsky (1879-1947) Was an Ukrainian and Soviet painter, professor, prominent figure in the reform of art education, first rector of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Krichevsky introduced into his work a variety of styles. In his paintings there is a place for impressionism and symbolism, and even for the avant-garde. His main direction was realism.
Postcard from the Soviet Union. With a painting by Konstantin Bogaevsky. Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogaevsky (1872-1943) was a Ukrainian Russian painter from Crimea notable for his Symbolist landscapes.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1984. The text on the card reads:”Alexei Leonov. Spacewalk”. Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov[a] (1934-2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon although the project was cancelled. In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Soyuz–Apollo mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a painting of Lenin. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union. His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak. Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad). Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad. Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, with an image of the Matsesta sculpture. The sculpture depicts a girl hugging a mountain and is remarkable for how natural it looks, almost as if the female’s face was cut out of stone by nature itself. The fountain in front of the sculpture symbolizes Matsesta’s healing waters. According to one legend, local people previously had to sacrifice the most beautiful girl to an evil mountain spirit who controlled the healing water spring. The people eventually rebelled against the villain so he blocked off the water source with a large rock. One day, a beautiful girl called Matsesta went to the mountain to collect water for her sick, aging parents. She managed to kill the spirit, crack open the rock and give people back the water, but perished in turn. Grateful locals named the water in her honor.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad). Entrance to the hall of the Soldier’s Glory. Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad. Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad). Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad. Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
