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Cheboksary, M. Gorki Prospect
On the reverse of this 4-1/8″ x 7-7/8″ card, published in 2009 and mailed in 2012 with four stamps and full postmark, there is a large artwork of the city as it looked in 1891. Just to compare. Grade: 1

Code: 20545082
Price: $4.00
Moscow, Arbat Street, Monument to Bulat
Bulat ( ბულატ ოკუჯავა in Georgian) was a Soviet novelist, poet, writer, musician, and singer-songwriter. We learned about him through Wikipedia, also that this monument marks the building where he lived. One stamp, mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545083
Price: $1.00
Lensk, fire trucks
This 4-1/4″ x 8-1/4″ card is unused except for an I.D. number written on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20545084
Price: $4.00
St. Petersburg, Palace Square, Alexander Column
Conventional card in good condition, enhanced by two different stamps and large, full postmarks. Original (ruble) price sticker is there. Grade: 2

Code: 20545085
Price: $2.00
Moscow, Nikolskaya Street 1888
Contemporary card made to look old. Rounded corners, sepia tone, one stamp (not postmarked), and address label taped onto the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20545086
Price: $0.50
CCCP-era brick street
Pre-printed Soviet 5-kopeck stamp, and four contemporary stamps (two are postmarked) on this card mailed in 2012. Grade: 3

Code: 20545087
Price: $2.00
Murmansk, The fishery port view
From a somewhat less-common Russian location, with two large stamps and partial Moscow postmark, this 4-1/8″ x 7-1/2″ card with only minor postal creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 20545088
Price: $4.00
Moscow, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Very heavily written contemporary card with four stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545089
Price: $2.00
Povorotniy Lighthouse, Baltic Sea
No. 6 in the photoFabrique “Lighthouses of Russia” series, this one is in the Gulf of Finland. Two of these are available. One was mailed in 2012 from Ukraine (not Russia!) with four stamps, postmark, a sticker of a duck, and two address labels affixed (Grade: 4, $1) and the other in 2013, also from Ukraine, with three stamps and two postmarks (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 20545090
Price: $3.00
Saint Petersburg, Palace Square
An abrasion in the sky on the front; the reverse has two se-tenant stamps and full postmark, along with par Avion rubber chop mark. Grade: 3

Code: 20545091
Price: $1.00
From Moscow with Love!
The front is as you see. It’s hard to describe the reverse: mailed with four stamps, three large postmarks, rubber-stamped ID number, and address label affixed. Well, I guess we just described it. Grade: 3

Code: 20545092
Price: $2.00
St. Petersburg, View of the Neva
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 20545093
Price: $1.00
Perm, Kraevoi Museum, Mammoth
One stamp and a huge, clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545094
Price: $4.00
Russian famous rulers
The card’s designer did choose some famous ones, all right. Mailed in 2012 with three different (and large) stamps that take one-third of the reverse, this card has two full Tyumen postmarks also. Grade: 1

Code: 20545095
Price: $4.00
St. Petersburg Subway Map
One of Russia’s PostalShop cards, but still a nice entry to your Metro Map collection. Mailed from St. Petersburg in 2012 with a large “ski” stamp and readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545096
Price: $7.00
Soviet stamps of World War II
One of Russia’s PostalShop cards, but still a nice entry to your collection of postcards showing stamps. Mailed from Moscow in 2012 with six stamps and two readable postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545097
Price: $5.00
Lighthouse Aniva, Sakhalin
Photo Fabrique card No. 1 from the series “Lighthouses of Russia”. This lighthouse, on the Sea of Okhotsk, is on a card mailed from Ukraine (not Russia!) in 2012 with five stamps and full postmark. The card itself was heavily handled in transit and has a highly crumpled appearance. Grade: 4

Code: 20545098
Price: $3.00
St. Petersburg, The Main Admiralty 1806-23
Mailed in 2012 with large Sochi stamp and St. Petersburg postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20545099
Price: $3.00
Map of Saint-Petersburg
An old (18-19 century) map on a new card, mailed in 2012 with stamp, full St. Petersburg postmark, and a little sticker of a fish (sorry about that). Grade: 4

Code: 20545100
Price: $3.00
Moscow, St. Basil’s Cathedral
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps, and there’s a full Volgograd postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545101
Price: $2.00
Yekaterinburg
Parts of both the Russian and English captions are obscured by the stamps and the large, full postmark. If we were guessing, it says something like “The house of the Head Manager of (whoever built the) Ural Bridge.” If you are from Yekaterinburg, you will definitely know the answer. Two stamps, actually. Grade: 1

Code: 20545102
Price: $3.00
Plan of the Moscow Metro
Captioned in eight languages, this Metro postcard was mailed in 2012 with one stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20545103
Price: $5.00
Trojan Horse
If you can read Russian, you’ll know the story behind this grand design. The card itself was mailed in 2012 with two stamps (one of them, very large) and full St. Petersburg postmark. Postal processing abrasion on right front edge. Grade: 3

Code: 20545104
Price: $2.00
Lighthouse on the Kotlin Island
Somewhat bleak picture probably reflecting the location. The card has some postmark transfer on the front, and was mailed in 2012 with two stamps and full Tver postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20545105
Price: $5.00
Main building of Moscow University on Vorobyovy Hills 1949-1953
We suppose those dates refer to the period during which the building was under construction. This card is contemporary, is captioned in eight languages, has two uncancelled 10-ruble stamps, and that’s about all we can say. Grade: 3

Code: 20545106
Price: $2.00
Mailbox
An internet card, very nicely done but still an internet card, mailed in 2012 with four stamps and full, large postmark. A bit of postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20545107
Price: $2.00
Bolshoy Utrish, lighthouse and church
Though an internet card from PostalShop, this is a great example of a lighthouse postcard, with minor postmark ink transfer on the front but four different stamps (three quite large and distinctive), and three full Spartov postmarks from 2012. Grade: 2

Code: 20545108
Price: $6.00
At May-Day Demonstration, Ice Cream 1960-e
The photo is from 1960; the contemporary card was mailed in 2012 with stamp and much of the postmark, along with blue bilingual par Avion sticker. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 20545109
Price: $3.00
Map of the Moskva River
If you like map postcards, here is an unusual and distinctive one: mailed in 2012 with five different stamps and multiple overlapping postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545110
Price: $6.00
Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug
This 3-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ card of an oil boom town was mailed from there in 2012 with two long stamps and Tyumen postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545111
Price: $5.00
The Tram
From artwork by Svetlana Shumskaya, a card mailed in 2012 with Sochi Olympics stamp and se-tenant English explanation of the park it displays. Full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545112
Price: $4.00
Prison in Trubetskoi Bastion, Peter and Paul Fortress
Captioned in eight languages, this card was mailed in 2012 with a very large stamp and full St. Petersburg postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20545114
Price: $5.00
Moscow, Central Sports Complex at Luzhniki
Two of these cards are available. One was mailed from Germany (not Russia) in 2012 with two stamps, full postmark, trilingual Priority label, and captions in eight languages (Grade: 3, $2) and the other from Russia in 2013 with two stamps, two very large postmarks, and minor postal creasing (Grade: 2, $3).

Code: 20545115
Price: $2.00
Sochi Olympics 2014 – ski
Four of these are available. One was mailed in 2012 with two very large stamps and full, large Ekaterinburg postmark. The writing extends on to the stamps, though (Grade: 3, $3). Two were mailed in 2013, each with stamp and postmark. One of them has a blurred purple airmail chop (Grade: 1, $4) and the other has a smaller stamp with no extra chop (Grade: 1, $3). Finally, one more was mailed in 2014, with one large stamp adjoining the B&W pre-printed postage; also a full Moscow postmark (Grade: 1, $4).

Code: 20545116
Price: $4.00
Pulkovo Airport is closed (Dmitry Shorin)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full Saint-Petersburg postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545117
Price: $1.00
USSR stamps (postcard)
Quite thick internet card, mailed in 2012 with three stamps of its own, postmark, and additional rubber-stamped impression on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20545118
Price: $3.00
Astrakhan, project of engineers
The only problem with this postcard is that the writer used six stamps that cover more than half of the captions. That may be a happy problem for some of you, so we’re just saying. Mailed in 2012 with those stamps and three postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545119
Price: $3.00
St. Petersburg, St. Isaac’s Cathedral (1818-1858)
Mailed in 2012, one stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20545120
Price: $1.00
Moscow tram (1900)
An old photo on a contemporary card, mailed in 2012 with one stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545121
Price: $1.00
Moscow, Kremlin and Large Stone Bridge
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps and two full postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545122
Price: $2.00

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