Cyrillic Collection

Antonov An-30 SSSR-30062, of Aeroflot (SSSR is CCCP in cyrillic alphabet - USSR, Soviet Union). Date: circa 1970

First Bulgarian Postcard
The printing is pink on buff card. The heading is Union Postale Universelle Bulgarie with a Cyrillic form underneath. There is a printed 10c stamp. Date: 1879

Yakovlev Yak-18T SSSR-81434 (msn 368), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1975, with airshow serial 368'

Antonov An-28 SSSR-48015 (msn 04), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1979. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1979

Antonov An-32 SSSR-83966, of Aeroflot, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1977

Yakovlev Yak-42 SSSR-42303, the prototype Yak-42, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977, with airshow serial 342'

Kazan Helicopters Mi-17M SSSR-95448, at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show in September 1992. (Note: Soviet Union registrations used the Cyrillic letters CCCP = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet)

Antonov An-72 SSSR-72000 (msn 005), at the 1984 SBAC Farnborough Air Show, held from 2-9 September. (Note : The Soviet Union used Cyrillic letters in their aircraft registrations CCCP in Cyrillic is)

Mil Mi-26 SSSR-06141, at the 1984 SBAC Farnborough Air Show, held from 2-9 September. (Note : The Soviet Union used Cyrillic letters in their aircraft registrations CCCP in Cyrillic is SSSR in)

Mil Mi-26 SSSR-06141 with Ilyushin Il-86 SSSR-86066
The tail rotor of Mil Mi-26 SSSR-06141 framing Ilyushin Il-86 SSSR-86066, at the 1984 SBAC Farnborough Air Show, held from 2-9 September

Soviet propaganda poster. Death to World Imperialism
Russia. Communism. Soviet propaganda poster. Death to World Imperialism. Date:

Mil Mi-17-1BA SSSR-95043 (msn 95043), while at Helitech, Redhill in September 1989. (still carrying the Paris airshow aerial H-298)

Mil Mi-26T SSSR-06197 (msn 34001212030), detail of the cockpit, while at Helitech, Redhill in September 1989. (SSSR - Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik - Union of Soviet Socialist)

Kamov Ka-32 SSSR-31000 (msn 21013210001), detail of the cockpit, while at Helitech, Redhill in September 1989. (SSSR - Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik - Union of Soviet Socialist)

Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan SSSR-82007 (msn 19530501005-105), at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show in September 1988. (Note: SSSR - Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik - SSSR = CCCP in Cyrillic)

Father Christmas with sack on a Russian postcard
Father Christmas with sack full of presents on a Russian postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Father Christmas with sack and angel on a Russian postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Angel with tree on a Russian Christmas postcard, with bells and mistletoe around the upper edge. Date: circa 1890s

Angels with tree on a Russian Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Russian poster, We have little bread -- eat fish instead circa 1940s

Russian poster, sea diving -- young people, you are called, a world of undiscovered depths, amazing beauty. circa 1930s

Eastern chariots, mostly depicted on coins
Eastern chariots (Roman, Persian, Sidonian), mostly depicted on coins and in the centre Roman women sitting in an ox-cart, watched by a soldier. Date: circa 0 BCE / O CE

Two chicks with an egg on a Russian Easter postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Cupid with hearts and doves on a Valentine postcard
Cupid with red hearts and white doves on a Russian Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Sign in four languages, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
Sign in four languages near the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany -- You are leaving the American Sector. Date: 1960s

Archbishop Luka (born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky), (1877-1961). Russian outstanding surgeon, founder of purulent surgery, spiritual writer

Ruma, Vojvodina, Serbia
Street scene in Ruma, Vojvodina, Serbia

The Second soviet Occupation (1944-1991). Large areas of Latvia become military bases and firing ranges. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia. Europe

Motor ambulances on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
A line of motor ambulances of the American hospital service on the eastern front, Russia, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Russian soldiers on parade, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers on parade, marching along a street during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

People queueing for food, Russia
People in a Russian city queueing for food at a time when supplies were low, after the October Revolution of 1917. Date: circa 1918

Serbia - Belgrade - Souvenir Postcard pack - Palace Albanija
Serbia - Belgrade - Souvenir Postcard pack (cover) - featuring Palace Albanija, a high-rise building in Belgrade, Serbia. Opened in 1940

CYRIL, Saint (826-869). Apostle of the Slavs

Soviet money: bills of 3, 5, 25, 100 and 200 rubles. Coin

The Vacationers
Poster advertising the performance The Vacationers by Russian writer, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), at the Great Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, directed by George Tovstonogov

Harbin, China
Harbin - the largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. Lots of connections to Russia (hence cyrillic text on the Sale poster on the side of this bus)

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