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Minsk, River scene
Large (5-1/2″ x 8″) card mailed in 2014 with three stamps and postmark, though badly battered along the way in transit. Grade: 5
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Minsk, Bus station “Moskovsky”
Long (4-1/8″ x 8-1/4″) card mailed from Minsk in 2014 with M stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1
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Minsk, The National Library of Belarus
We’re not certain what Ice Hockey has to do with the National Library. Do they clear the shelves and play indoors? Long (4″ x 8″) card mailed in 2014 with M stamp and very clear postmark. Grade: 1
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Minsk, 1920 train artwork
Large (6″ x 8-1/4″) card mailed in 2014 with predictable postal battering along the way. Stamp and postmark are there. Grade: 4
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Polatsk Library Museum (not a postcard)
On the front, this 5-1/2″ x 8″ card looks like a postcard but the problem is that it looks more or less the same on the back, fully pre-printed. One could mail it as a postcard, with a little effort, but it is what it is. Unused. Grade: 1
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Lenin and art
We don’t know what to say about this, and we don’t know the provenance. Captioning is in Cyrillic on this card mailed in 2014 with a very large “M” stamp and Minsk postmark. Grade: 3
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Welcome to Belarus, Trinity suburb, Monument to soldiers-internationalists
Mailed in 2014, this card has an “N” stamp (makes a change from “M”), and two overlapping postmarks. Grade: 1
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Zaslaye, Railway Station “Belarus”
Mailed in 2013, this card shows a railway station near Minsk. The card has a large “N” stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 1
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Vitsebsk, Bridge over the Western Dzvina
Mailed in 2014, this card has five different stamps, full postmark, and bilingual Prioritaire chop. It’s a very nice contemporary card. Grade: 1
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Gomel, Palace of Rumyantsaus-Paskevicha
Mailed in 2013 with an “N” stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Minsk, National Library of Belarus
Mailed with a “M” stamp and bilingual Prioritaire chop, but no postmark. Because of that, Grade: 4
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The Castle of Radziwills in Niasvizh of XVI-XIX Centuries
Mailed in 2014 with stamp and something adjacent that looks like a stamp, and two postmarks. Grade: 4
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Minsk, The Railway Station
Mailed in 2014 with a large “M” stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Map of Belarus
Mailed in 2014, with M stamp and Brest postmark. Grade: 1
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Belarusian alphabet
Mailed in 2014, with nice “M” stamp, faint postmark, and Prioritaire chop. With this card in hand, you will be fine going anywhere in Belarus. Grade: 1
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Minsk, Vilenski Railway station, 1927
The artwork may be from 1927 but the card is newer, mailed in 2014 with “M” stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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с новым годом (Happy New Year!)
Made in, and sent from, Belarus (with message, though no stamp, postmark, or address), this card’s printed greeting is in Russian and not Belarusian. Grade: 4
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Sineokaya Vodka
On the front, this looks like a nicely designed card for a place. But Belarus Sineokaya is a well-known vodka, from Brest, and the reverse of the card bears an English-language logo and looks quite official. If we had any right here, right now, we would try it. Five unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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віншую (Congratulations!)
Mailed in 2016 with slightly abraded stamp and large, full postmark from Vitebsk. Grade: 2
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Agro-Tourism
The front of this card is good. And it has an H stamp, and faint postmark. But the reverse is cluttered with labels and stickers and so the card should only be seen as a space-filler. Grade: 5
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Minsk, Liberty Square, Town Hall, Archdiocese Cathedral
Mailed from Minsk in 2020, with a large “M” stamp and postmark. The card has a sizable horizontal strip attached to the back, deliberately covering some printed text, and while it looks as if this strip was on the card when it was first sold, we can’t be certain. That’s the only reason the grade is so low. Grade: 4
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Minsk, Railway station
An explosion of colour on this card mailed from Minsk in 2021 with seven stamps (!) and two large postmarks. Grade: 1
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Scene
Maybe the card’s Belarusian or Russian caption describes this view but we’re slow to fiddle with Google Translate to find out. Mailed from Belarus in 2021, with “P” stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Messenger with a waybill (V. Stashchaniuk)
Unused card showing either 17th-century artwork or contemporary artwork of a 17th-century situation, we’re not certain which. The postcard however dates from 2019. Grade: 1
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Лявониха (Liavonikha)
Costumes for traditional folk dancing, on this 2024 card mailed from Minsk with a very large “M” stamp. Grade: 1
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I Will Write …
… at least that’s what we think the leading caption says, in Belarusian or Russian, on this contemporary card mailed in 2024 with an impressively large “M” stamp. Grade: 1