Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1992

FDC made in Russia, 1992.

Price: 1.50 euro

FDC from the Soviet union, from around 1970. The text on the envelope reads:”Happy Newyear”.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1973

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1973. The text on the envelope reads:”First Day”.

Price: 1.50 euro

Envelope issued in the Soviet Union.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1979

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1979. The text on the envelope reads:”World Telecommunication Exhibition Telecom Geneva”.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1978

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1978. The text on the envelope reads:”Moscow, Bahx, Sculpture of a mukhina worker and collective farmers”.
Bahx is the permanent exhibition center in Moscow. Mukhina was the sculptor of the Worker And Kolkhoz Woman. Worker and Kolkhoznitza Woman is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads. It is 24.5 metres (78 feet) high, made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of socialist realism in an Art Deco aesthetic. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1982

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1982. The text on the envelope reads:”600 Years Domestic Artillery”.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1971

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1971. The text on the envelop reads:”24th. Congress Communist Party”.
The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was convened in Moscow from 30 March to 9 April 1971. The Congress brought together 4,963 delegates, with 102 foreign delegations from 91 countries as observers.

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1982

FDC made in the Soviet Union for comemmorating Radio Day. The text on the envelop reads:”Radio Day Holiday. Radio Workers In All branches”.
Radio Day, Communications Workers’ Day (as it is officially known in Russia) is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia. It takes place on 7 May, the day in 1895 on which Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated a radio based lightning detector.
Popov’s device was just a radio receiver, he would not develop a radio transmitter until over a year later (a year and a half after Guglielmo Marconi developed a similar device. Popov’s presentation was declared the “inventor of radio” in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe..
The first Radio Day was observed in the Soviet Union in 1945, on the 50th anniversary of Popov’s experiment, and some four decades after his death. Radio Day is officially marked in Russia and Bulgaria.

Price: 2.50
Year: 1982

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1982.