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TRAINS on POSTAL STATIONERY RUSSIA - USSR (1917 - 1991) Page 5

	Date: 1987-09-18 Env - 1987 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Odessa Train Station Odessa on line DL
	Date: 1987-09-22 Env - 1987 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Train Station in Sochi 150th anniv of Sochi (?) Most Internet sites I consulted gave the date of the founding of Sochi as 1896 or 1898, so the 1837 date is a mystery. I found one site (no longer available) with extensive historical information, but in Russian. Mine is minimal, but I think it said a military fort was established in the area around 1837, so that may be the basis for the calculation of 150 years. Wikipedia gives 1838 as the date the city was founded. Close enough. DL
	Date: 1987-11-19 Env - 1987 - 5k brown ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Train Station in Volgograd Originally Tsaritsyn (1589), then Stalingrad(1925), now Volgograd (1961), it is one of the oldest cities of Russia. Located about 600 miles southeast of Moscow, it has a current population of about 1 million. The Nazi siege and destruction of the city in WWII was a turning point in the war on the Russian front. DL
	Date: 1987-12-16 Env - 1987 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Leningradsky Train Station, Moscow, and small diesel train in logo at top left Train Stations of Moscow - Leningradsky There are nine train stations in Moscow - Here they are, with small pictures. The item above makes seven in the series on these pages - missing are Kievsky and Paveletsky. Those do exist: Kievsky (1987-08-26), Paveletsky (1988-04-29) DL
	Date: 1988-01-05 Env - 1987 - 10k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with globe, letters, transport vehicles, including modern electric train Registered WS
	Date: 1988-04-14 Env - 1988- 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Simferopol Train Station Simferopol on line DL
	Date: 1988-04-21 Env - 1988 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows globe, letters, transport vehicles, including modern train Letter Week DL
	Date: 1988-05-13 - 125th anniversary of Kolomna diesel locomotive construction plant. Env - 1988 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows modern locomotive The diesel locomotive plant there is still in operation, and celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2003. WS
	Date: 1988-05-31 Env - 1988 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows modern locomotive in front of refinery, stamp outline "Zheldorfil 88" philatelic exhibition, Novosibirsk DL
	Date: 1988-06-20 Env - 1988 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows antique locomotive Polytechnic Museum, Moscow DL
	Date: 1989-01-13 Env - 1989 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Train Station in Volgograd DL
	Date: 1989-02-09 Env - 1989 - 5k ind with rail cross-section; cachet shows modern train 25th Congress of UIC (International Union of Railways), Moscow, 1989 DL
	Date: 1989-03-14 Env - 1988 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Odessa train station DL
	Date: 1989-03-22 Env - 1988- 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows A P Platonov, night train in background at right A P Platonov, author and critic, 1899-1951 . He worked on the railroads in his youth, which may account for the prominence of trains in his writing. DL
	Date: 1989-04-12 Env - 1988 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows monument to railroad workers in Irkutsk, Siberia, on south-western shore of Lake Baikal. With an average depth of over 2,000 feet, Lake Baikal is the worlds' deepest lake, and contains one-fifth of the world's fresh water. Irkutsk, with a population of about 600,000, is one of the chief cities on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Irkutsk Train Station About that monument ( photo here) - quoting from this page In 1900 the Irkutsk City Duma (Congress) passed a resolution to mark the end of the Siberian railroad construction by putting up a monument to Alexander III. In 1903 the monument's foundation was laid, and it was unveiled in 1908. The monument project belonged to a sculptor P.P.Bakh, who won an art competition, organized by the City Duma in 1902. The pedestal is made of polished red Finish granite. The original monument was topped with a bronze figure (5,3 meters tall) of the Tsar, cast in St.Petersburg. The monument pedestal was decorated by high relief portrayals of Siberian conqueror Ermak, General-Governors M.M.Speranskii and N.N.Muravyov-Amurskii. On the eastern side there is a bronze double-headed eagle, holding the Tsar's edict about the Siberian railroad construction. All townspeople participated in the project: some donated money, others took part directly in the preparation of the ground and square around the monument. In 1920 the Tsar's figure was removed and destroyed, and the pedestal was empty for a long time. In 1964 an obelisk, designed by architect V.P.Shmatkov, was added. Nowadays there are some talks about restoration of the monument to its original view. DL
	Date: 1989-04-26 Env - 1989 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows Chernivtsi train station Located in western Ukraine, near the Carpathian Mountains, Chernivtsi has a current population of about 260,000. Like the rest of western Ukraine, Chernivtsi is both more European and more Ukrainian than the eastern part of the country - from 1774-1918 it was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and from 1918-1940 the region was part of Romania. Only from 1940 to 1990 was it under Russian authority. Hence its architecture and culture are more European in flavor than, say Kyiv. DL
	Date: 19890531 - Gor'ky. Station "Rodina" of the children's railroad. Env - 1989 - 5k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet in brown, image of turreted building VL
	Date: 1989-07-17 Env - 1989 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows "Pobeda" Metro station in Kuybyshev, with train at platform. (The city was renamed Samara in 1991.) DL
	Date: 19890926 - Kyiv. Victory Square. Env - 1989 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet multicolored aerial view of boulevard with large monument/column, star on top, streetcar tracks? VL
	Date: 1989-10-10 Env - 1989 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows classic steam train in background V I Safronova, 1918-1943, hero of the Soviet Union DL
	Date: 1990-03-26 Env - 1990 - 5k red ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet shows train in background A A Maslennikov, 1890-1919, something about Omsk DL
	Date: 1990-03-27 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet shows Odessa train station DL
	Date: 1990-04-05 Env - 1990 - 10k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with fronts of three modern diesel locomotives, signals, etc. (no inscription) Registered WS
	Date: 1990-04-25 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with Vladivostok post office, streetcar (?) and tracks on street DL
	Date: 1990-05-22 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with Vladivostok street, streetcar DL
	Date: 1990-05-22 Env - 1990 - 5k red ind with no rail interest; cachet with classic steam train in background P N Vasiliev, Soviet Russian poet, 1910-1937 DL
	Date: 1990-07-06 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with street scene (Covered market), Saratov, with streetcar. DL
	Date: 1990-08-03 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with train station, Volgograd DL
	Date: 1990-08-13 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with train station, Murmansk Located about 1,000 miles north of Moscow, on the Barents Sea, with a population of about 337,000, Murmansk is the largest city in the world North of the Arctic Circle! Check the weather there. DL
	Date: 1990-12-11 Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with street scene, streetcar tracks Vladivostok, Lenin Street DL
	Date: 1990-12-18 - Centennial of Nizhnedneprovsky tube-rolling mill. Env - 1990 - 5k blue ind with no rail interest; cachet with pipes, factory, railway freight car DL
	Date: 1991-01-24 - Centennial of the beginning of Trans-Siberian railroad construction. Env - 1991 - 5k red ind with no rail interest; cachet with electric train, map DL
	Date: 1991-05-27 Env - 1991 - 7k blue ind with transport vehicles, including railway mailcar; cachet with electric train, map, stamp outline "Zheldorfil 91", Irkutsk (Railphil) WS

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