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Next is a 1993 Soviet Lithuania - it lokes like its to a non national ie a Russian because the nationality left blank

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Next is a 1941 Soviet occupation Lithuania Passport

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Visa Page 2

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Visa Page

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Here are a few soviet passports that I have picked up recently

First up is an 1928 Hard Backed Passport

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Yes. The ending "a" is added because it is the genitive tense "in the name of..."

Thanks Rick, I had forgotten about that

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Nice!!

Thanks for posting it, OoV.

Its a pleasure, ED

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The text 'VVMU RE IM. A.S. POPOVA' stands for 'Vyssheye voyenno-morskoye uchilishche radioelektroniki im. A.S. Popova', or 'Higher Naval School for Radio-Electronics in the name of A.S. Popova'.

Thank you Ferdinand

I wonder is A.S Popova the same person A.S Popov who the day of the radio is celebrated for

In 1945 a state holiday, the Day of Radio, was established. It was decided to celebrate it annually on the 7th of May. The government has decreed to install monuments and memorial plaques devoted to the inventor of radio, to institute a badge ?Honorable Radio Operator? and the gold medal named after A. Popov. The medal is awarded by the Academy of Sciences to famous scientific researchers and inventors in the radio engineering field.

The museum exposition tells the visitors much about Popov?s achievements and the significance of his works. Some educational institutions, research institutes, museums, ships and streets are named after Popov to commemorate the prominent Russian scholar. A special stand is devoted to 19 winners of the gold medal named after A. Popov.

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I picked this up this morning at my local millitaria dealer Its celebrating the 60th Anniversary of something Naval but not sure what any help would be appriciated

BTW its a heavy brass ovelaid with metal and enamale, it has a screw back but the screw plate does not have any markings exept for a double circle with kind of Mercades symbol in it

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To me the stamp and the picture does not look right

Prehaps it should be moved in to the fake order book thread:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8623

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I'll spare you the documents, unless you are foolhardy enough to ask for them

Are there any intresting docs if there is please sho them

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Here is an Original Soviet document issued by Soviet Ministry of Defense Political Directorate to Prokofieva N.A. The document certifies that this woman completed a 20 days long training course on matters of bibliography, work with library patrons, and operation of library equipment. The course was designed by the Defense Ministry to improve performance of military librarians. The training was held in the city of Gorkiy from July 2 till July 21, 1944. Document is dated July 21, 1944.

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Heres an other

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Here are a few of the many visas in this passport

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Here is the bio data page

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Here is a 1963 Yugoslavian Passport

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It's a quarter of century since Leonid Brezhnev died. He led the Soviet Union for 18 years between 1964 and 1982, and would have celebrated his hundreth birthday this year.

Brezhnev's rule will be remembered for the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.

His period in office also coincided with economic stagnation and decline.

Towards the end of his life he fell ill, suffering two heart attacks. The illnesses remained secret until Mikhail Gorbachev's period of Glasnost.

Many older Russians feel nostalgic for the Brezhnev era, remembering it as a time of stability and security.

Taken from Russia Today

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Nice passport - to complete your collection you need to get a blue passport. Any Hungarian citizen could apply for a red covered passport in which you could travel to any of the Warsaw Pact nations. I have some which have Jugoslavia on the stamp for nations that you could travel to - but the 'Jugoslavia' was crossed out. Blue passports were the ones for 'special' indiviudals whou could travel to the West. They could alos apply for $50 US Dollars to take with them as the Hungarian Forint could not be exchanged for currency in the west. It made for short trips unless you had family in the place you were going - but then people might be following....

Wow thank you for the information

I have never seen a blue one but now the hunt is on for a blue one

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Here are a few of the stamps in the passport

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Here is the bio data page

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Here is an Hungarian Passport I accuired recently.

Here are the pics

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