FDC Soviet Russia Citys FSRC003 50 Years Murmansk 1966

Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1966
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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 Soviet Russia Citys FSRC002 Luhansk

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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 Soviet Russia Citys FSRC001 Sverdlovsk

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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 Sverdlov

Sverdlov and Vladimir Lenin open the monument to Karl Marx in 1918