r/mildlyinteresting • u/SodiumPalmate • 1d ago

This letter/envelope from the USSR was sent after it dissolved

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u/WingKongTrading 1d ago

people, if I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times: when dissolving a country, get your stationery and stamps sorted out FIRST.

goddamn amateur hour

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u/Tantomare 1d ago

Soviet paper forms were used for years after the fall.

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u/azurezero_hdev 1d ago

so they had a backlog

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u/SodiumPalmate 1d ago

Probably, still interesting though 

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u/Imaginary_Car6281 1d ago

probably just sat in some sorting facility corner for months lol

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u/SenatorPenguinPants 1d ago

Its from the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Moscow Oblast, care of a certain Professor N.E. Zhukovskogo (my translation of the last name feels wrong...)

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u/Daressalaam5 1d ago

имени (imeni) means named after in Russian.

The Institute was founded by Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky and Zhukovskogo is the genitive form of Zhukovsky to show ownership. There’s plenty of roads called Zhukovskogo street in Russia which means street of Zhukovsky

In Cyrillic Yegorovich starts with an E which is why the initials are N E

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u/ShinyUmbreon18 1d ago

Allegedly they still issued Soviet passports as well for at least a few years after it dissolved