Book with 21 postcards of North Korea made in 1969 in the Russian langiage. The postcards can be torn uit of the book and be used. Made by the Publishing House of Literature in Foreign Languages, DPRK, Pyongyang.
Book with 25 postcards of North Korea made in 1968. The postcards can be torn uit of the book and be used. Made by the Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang. Comes in teh Chinese, Russian and English language.
Postcard set made in North Korea, 1976, in the English langauge. Pictured is Mt. Kumsang San. 15 postcards. Mount Kumgang or the Kumgang Mountains are a mountain range, with a 1,638-metre-high (5,374 ft) Birobong peak, in Kangwon-do, North Korea. It is one of the best-known mountains in North Korea.. It is located on the east coast of the country, in Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, formerly part of Kangwŏn Province. Mount Kumgang is part of the Taebaek mountain range which runs along the east of the Korean Peninsula.
Postcard set made in North Korea, 1976, in the Russian langauge. Set of 12 postcards. The title of the postcards reads:”Revolutionary Opera Song of Gumgangsan”.
Postcard set made in North Korea, 1972, in the Russian langauge. Pictured is Mt. Kumsang San. 10 postcards. Mount Kumgang or the Kumgang Mountains are a mountain range, with a 1,638-metre-high (5,374 ft) Birobong peak, in Kangwon-do, North Korea. It is one of the best-known mountains in North Korea.. It is located on the east coast of the country, in Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, formerly part of Kangwŏn Province. Mount Kumgang is part of the Taebaek mountain range which runs along the east of the Korean Peninsula.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The title of the postcard is:”Mansu Hill viewed from the fountain park”. The Mansu Hill Grand Monument is a complex of monuments in Pyongyang, North Korea. There are 229 figures in all, commemorating the history of the revolutionary struggle of the Korean people, and especially their leaders. The central part of the monument consists of two 20-meter-tall (66 ft.) bronze statues of deceased North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The monument was originally dedicated in April 1972 in honor of Kim Il Sung’s 60th birthday. At the time, the monument featured only Kim Il Sung. The statue was originally covered in gold leaf, but was later altered to bronze. Following Kim Jong Il’s death in 2011, a similar statue of him was erected on the north side of Kim Il Sung.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language with the Chomilla statue. The Chollima Horse is a mythical wingend horse and an important symbol of North Korea. It is said to be able to cover long distances at amazing speed. It is the nickname of the North Korea national football team and it gave it’s name to the Chommilla movement wich promoted fast economic development, much like the “great leap forward” in China. In the capital PyonYang there is a Chollima statue wich is 46 meters high and 16 meters wide.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Handicraft room in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Study room for the study of painting in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Study room for the study of tractor design in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Hall for gymnastics with shells in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Exterior of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Agronomic office in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Astronomy room at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Hall for rhythmic gymnastics in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Room for class education in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Chorus “We wish the leader good health and long life!” performed by members of an amateur musical circle at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Telegraph office in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Botanical study at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Medical office at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Pyongyang″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the French language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”The Pyongyang Grand Theater, center of the arts, located on the banks of the Daidong River″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Southern crossroads near which residential buildings for workers were built″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Namdaemun Gate″. The Kaesong Namdaemun is the south gate of the old walled city of Kaesong, North Korea. Constructed between 1391 and 1393, it is the only one of the original seven citadel gates to survive mostly intact into the present.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren Palace of Happiness for Children″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”City People’s Hospital equipped with modern equipment″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”Youth street built up with multi-storey residential buildings for workers and trade institutions″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the back of the postcard reads:”. Sunggyungwa pavilion in kaesong. Structure of the Goryeo period (918-1392″.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The title of the postcard is:”Lodgings for working people at the revolutionary battle site in Samjiyon”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The title of the postcard is:”An angling site in Mupo bearing witness to the revolutionary activities of the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The title of the postcard is:”A log cabin in a secret camp in Mt. Paekdu where the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il was born”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Son Hui And Jun Ho On The Sangpal-dam Or The Eight High Ponds In Mt. Kumgang”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Jun Ho Meets A Girl Who Has The Same Name As Hero Choe Su Gil’s Daughter”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Woman’s Group Dance A Tambourine Dance”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Son Hui Sings Of A Land Of Fruits”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Group Dance The Twilight Over Kangson”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Woman’s Group Dance Nodulgangbyon”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Song And Dance This Is The Famous Kumgang Mountain”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Working People Enjoy Rest In Mt. Kumgang”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the English language. The picture is from a North Korean opera. The title of the postcard is:”Son Hui And Jun Ho Visit The Peakdu, Sacred Mountain Of The Revolution”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the postcard reads:”View of the Central District of Pyongyang from its eastern region”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the postcard reads:”The house in the historical place Mangyongdae, where the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood”.
Postcard made in North Korea in the Russian language. The text on the postcard reads:”Monument to Chollima. Symbol of the heroic spirit of the Korean people”. This postcard comes also in the French langauge. The Chollima Horse is a mythical wingend horse and an important symbol of North Korea. It is said to be able to cover long distances at amazing speed. It is the nickname of the North Korea national football team and it gave it’s name to the Chommilla movement wich promoted fast economic development, much like the “great leap forward” in China. In the capital PyonYang there is a Chollima statue wich is 46 meters high and 16 meters wide.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1980. The text on the envelope reads:”Russian poet A. A. Blok”. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1976. The text on the envelope reads:”Academician S.G. Strumilin”. Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (1877-1974) was a Soviet economist and statistician. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of the Soviet type, including modeling, development of the five year plans and calculation of national income. His particular contributions include the “Strumilin index”, a measure of labor productivity, and the “norm coefficient”, relating to analysis of investment activity.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1977. The text on the envelope reads:”People’s poet of Dagestan Gamzat Tsadasa”. Gamzat Tsadasa (1877-1951) was a Avar poet from Dagestan. He is the father of famous Russian writer Rasul Gamzatov.
FDC made in the Soviet Union made in 1989. The text on the envelope reads:”Crimea. Yalta. House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov”. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.Chekhov was a physician by profession. “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1980. The text on the envelope reads:”Monument A.M. Gorky”. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he traveled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing. Gorky was active in the Marxist communist movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Lenin and Bogdanov’s Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin’s personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936. After his return he was officially declared the “founder of Socialist Realism”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1980. The text on the envelope reads:”Monument A.M. Butlerov”. Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (1828-1886) was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862. The crater Butlerov on the Moon is named after him.
Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (1828-1886)Monument Alexander Butlerov
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1985. The text on the envelope reads:”Monument to the Azerbaijan poet M.A. Sabir”. Mirza Alakbar Sabir (1862-1911) was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new attitude to classical traditions, rejecting well-trodden ways in poetry. The artistic thought of the Azerbaijani people found expression in Fuzûlî’s works. They have been examples of the lyric to this day, and the satirical trend in Azerbaijani literature, and especially in poetry.
Mirza Alakbar Sabir (1862-1911)Monument Poet M.A. Sabir
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.