

Postcards of All-Union Air Routes - Oткрытки Воздушных Маршрутов

Postcard Sets

Soviet Passenger Aircraft
Postcard set published for the 40th anniversary of Aeroflot. 1923-1963
The flag of the USSR is known in all lands. Fly by Aeroflot! - The Moscow International Airport at Sheremetyevo. - The MI-4 passenger helicopter - The giant TU-114 passenger turbojet - The Tu-104 B passenger turbojet - The IL-14 passenger plane - The TU-124 is the latest Aeroflot passenger turbojet - The IL-18 passenger turboprop - The new AN-24 passenger turboprop - The AN-10 A passenger turboprop
10 postcards plus cover, 107 x 150 mm, RU-EN
1963, Цена 20 коп.

Soviet Passenger Aircraft
The giant TU-114 passenger turboprop - The MI-4 passenger helicopter - The TU-124 is the latest Aeroflot passenger turbojet - The IL-18 passenger turboprop - The AN-14 passenger plane - The AN-2 equipped as a passenger hydroplane - The AN-10 passenger turboprop - The new AN-24 passenger turboprop - The giant IL-62 passenger turbojet - The TU-104 passenger turbojet
10 postcards plus cover, 107 x 150 mm, RU-EN

New Planes, Helicopters, Airports
Postcard set published for the 45th anniversary of Aeroflot.
booklet with 12 postcards (28 pp in total), 267 x 105 mm, RU-EN
1968

Aviaexport
18 postcards plus cover
undated

Russian Outdoors in Seasonal Garb
12 postcards plus cover

Aviation in the Economy of the Country
'An An-2 being loaded with pesticides' - 'The AN-12 heavy air carrier' - 'To answer an urgent call' - 'Mail has been delivered to the tundra' - 'A MI-6 can also help to lay a pipeline' - 'Why not help industrious oil workers?' - 'A MI-1 helping to tend a vineyard' - 'An AN-2 helping to extinguish a fire' - 'It is always wise to keep an eye on volcanoes' - 'A friend in need is a friend indeed'
folder with 10 postcards, 107 x 149 mm, RU-EN
Aviareklama, 1970s

Aviaexport
Envelope with 24 postcards
undated

Aviaexport
17 postcards plus cover
undated

Aeroflot 1923 - 1973
24 postcards plus cover
1973

Uzbekistan
17 postcards plus cover
Aeroflot Soviet Airlines

Fly Aeroflot to the Capitals of Soviet Republics
16 postcards plus cover
late 1970s

The Baltic Republics
18 postcards plus cover

Moscow
16 postcards plus cover
Aeroflot Soviet Airlines

Leningrad
16 postcards plus cover
Aeroflot Soviet Airlines

The Aeroflot Planes
7 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, undated

The Aeroflot Planes
7 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, undated

The Aeroflot Planes
7 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, undated

The Aeroflot Planes
(60 Years 1923-1983)
6 (1 missing?) postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1983

Moscow
8 postcards plus cover
60 years, 1923 - 1983

Leningrad
12 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, undated

To the Soviet Union by Aeroflot
13 postcards plus cover
undated

Fly to the USSR
8 postcards plus cover
undated

Around Places Linked with Lenin
16 postcards plus cover
undated

Around the Capitals of the Republics of the USSR
15 postcards plus cover
undated

Aeroflot 60 Years 1923-1983 Planes and Helicopters
26 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1983

Airports of the USSR
8 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1985

Health Resorts of the USSR
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1985

The Capitals of the Republics of the USSR
15 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1985

Central Asia
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1986

Soviet Baltic Republics
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1986

Kiev
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1986

The Golden Ring of Russian Towns
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama

Byelorussia
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1987

Aeroflot Soviet Airlines
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1987

Aeroflot Planes
8 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1988

Welcome to Flight!
8 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1988

Fly Aeroflot to the Resorts in the Crimea and the Caucasus
15 postcards plus cover
undated

Wings of Aeroflot
16 postcards plus cover
1989 - 240,000

Aeroflot Soviet Airlines
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1989

Leningrad
16 postcards plus cover
1989

Planes and Helicopters
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1991

Aeroflot Soviet Airlines
16 postcards plus cover
Aviareklama, 1992


Happy New Year! - С Новым Годом!
1957
This double folded leaflet wishes you a Happy New Year! with a view on the Moscow Kremlin Spasskaya Tower with its clock on midnight. Inside a table-calendar for 1957.
The aircraft of Aeroflot will take you quickly to the capitals of the Union republics, major cities, industrial centers, resorts and capitals of foreign countries.
Information at airports, Aeroflot and Intourist agencies, at city information offices and at railway, sea and river stations.
102 x 145 mm

- (1959)
Postcard with a photomontage by V. Sveshnikova of Mi-4 CCCP-L35 above a Moscow street. The actual used photo in this card was taken by O. Knorring when it was flying during construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station. It was published in the Ogonek magazine, 1956 №29. On 19 December 1957, the helicopter, flying for the East Siberian Directorate, crashed.
137 x 95 mm
Gosfotokombinat "Lenfotokhudoznik"
1958 - 50,000

- (1959)
Photomontage by V. Sveshnikova. The same image of Mi-4 CCCP-L35, as in the card on the left, was used in this photomontage where a pinguin of the South Pole and an icebear of the North Pole eat ice-cream together. Remarkably, both greeting cards were published in 1958, the year after the accident with the helicopter.
94 x 143 mm

1960
Double folded greeting card in Russian, Chinese, English and French. On the backpage the silhouette on an Il-18 flying around the globe.
90 x 153 mm

1961
Double folded card with the silhouette of a Tu-104 and an Il-18. Inside decorated with a small drawing a of a rocket launch. The card wishes a Happy New Year in Russian, Chinese, English and French language.
148 x 86 mm

1961
Greeting card with a Tu-104 flying through the night sky over the red star of the Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. Photomontage by V. Sveshnikova and published by Lenizokombinat.
135 x 94 mm
1960 - 50,000

1962
Greeting card with a Tu-104 flying through the night sky. The card opens in the middle, exposing a drawing of the Tu-104 after landing, a stewardess walks away with a child passenger.
151 x 85 mm

1963
Double folded greeting card for the new year of 1963, the 40th anniversary of Aeroflot. To the card is a plastic medallion attached with the Aeroflot logo. On the cover '1963' in 3D-effect.
147 x 80 mm

- (ca. 1963)
Double folded greeting card showing the brand new Antonov An-24 in the early yellow-red colours. 'Happy New Year' wishes in Spanish, English, French, Russian and Ukrainian. artwork by Yu. I. Yaromenok.
129 x 80 mm
? - 40,000

1964
Double folded greeting card with stylyzed '64' and the silhouette of the new Il-62 on the cover.
147 x 100 mm

1964
Aeroflot wishes you a Happy New Year 1964. Small card published by the Riga Aeroflot Office.
110 x 73 mm

1965
Partly folded card with decorated with Greek mythological master craftsman Daedalus and his son Icarus.
177 x 80 mm

1965
137 x 97 mm

-
Undated double folded greeting card with the Moscow Kremlin on the cover. Inside, 'Happy New Year' wishes from Aeroflot and on the backcover a silhouette of a Tu-104.
90 x 175 mm

1965
An Il-62 on the cover of this double folded card that was printed with thick ink creating some relief.
144 x 75 mm

1966
Partially folded card with New Year wishes in 5 languages, English, German, French, Spanish and Russian and a silhoutte of an airliner flying above the silver clouds.
159 x 80 mm

1966
Unsure what this double folded was used for (a bookmark?), it shows Ded Moroz on the cover and inside a parachute jumper with a Tu-104 flying overhead.
115 x 68 mm

-
Undated postcard from the Kharkov Aviation Plant named after the Lenin Komsomol, the birthplace of the Tu-134s.
92 x 148 mm

1967
Double folded greeting card for the year 1967 which was also the the year of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (1917 - 1967). On the cover a Christmas tree decorated with the first Sputnik which flew in 10 years earlier in 1957 and the Tu-144 which was under developement at the time. On the card it shows registered as CCCP-65000
170 x 80 mm

1968
Double folded card with an artwork of Moscow-Domodedovo on th cover and a Tu-144. Inside artist impression of the Tu-144. In 1968 Aeroflot celebrated its 45th anniversary.
210 x 100 mm

1968
Double folded Aeroflot New Year greeting card from the Aeroflot Ukrainian Civil Aviation Directorate (УУГА). On the backside it says 'We invite you to fly!" with the Kiev phonenumbers for info and bookings.
145 x 91 mm
Kiev УУГА
1967 - 5,000

1969
Folded Aeroflot New Year greeting card from the Харьковского ОАО УУ ГА with snow maiden holding an Il-62
211 x 100 mm

1970
Double folded Aeroflot New Year greeting card in 5 languages with its original envelope
210 x 100 mm

1971
Double folded Aeroflot New Year greeting card with on the cover Father Frost bringing gifts and traveling on top of the supersonic Tu-144 creating shock waves when breaking the sound barrier.
210 x 100 mm

- (1973?)
This double folded greeting card is undated but was written for the year 1973.
102 x 201 mm

- (1973)
Tu-144 cruising through the nightsky. Artwork by A. Aksamit
148 x 106 mm
1972

- (1974)
Double folded greeting card with Ded Moroz and the Tu-144.
140 x 90 mm
Publishing House 'Planeta', 1973 - 1,000,000

1976
It's almost midnight on the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, an Ilyushin 62 flies by. Double folded card with envelope of the Ministry of Civil Aviation USSR.
205 x 95 mm

-
Undated double folded Aeroflot greeting card in six languages with an Il-62
201 x 100 mm

- (1980?)
Undated double folded greeting card with Mishka, the bear mascot for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, is flying on the new Il-86.
200 x 100 mm

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Undated double folded Aeroflot greeting card. It's midnight in Moscow, start of the new year.
100 x 200 mm

-
Undated double folded greeting card with the Il-86 on the cover.
90 x 170 mm

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Undated double folded greeting card with the Il-86 on the cover.
145 x 105 mm


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1870 - 1970
Double folded card to commemorate the birth of Lenin 100 years ago. Inside a photo of an Ilyushin 62 on take-off.
204 x 101 mm
Aviareklama, 1969

50 Years October Revolution
'DEAR COMRADE! DAY of the USSR Air Fleet - Aeroflot congratulates you on your aviation holiday. We wish you good health and success in your work. We hope to see you again as our passenger.
139 x 75 mm
1967

1917 - 1967
Double folded card to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
160 x 85 mm
1967

Слава Октябрю
Double folded card to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
146 x 83 mm
1972

Please accept my sincere congratulations on the occasion of international solidarity of workers - the day of May 1 and wishes of health, happiness and success in work. Double folded with on the cover an Ilyushin 62 flying over Moscow landmarks, the Soviet flag and mayflowers.
150 x 89 mm
1972

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'Accept heartfelt congratulations and best wishes on the national holiday - Day of the Air Fleet of the USSR'. On the cover of this double folded card, the Tu-144 and several Moscow landmarks and flags.
150 x 76 mm
undated, ca. 1972

On the fold-out badges of Lenin and the October Revolution
204 (folds open to 295 mm) x 100 mm
ca. 1975

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'Accept heartfelt congratulations and best wishes on the national holiday - the Day of the Air Fleet of the USSR'. On the cover of this double folded card, the Il-86
145 x 102 mm
1977


Bookmarks - Закладки
Two bookmarks for the 40th anniversary of Aeroflot in 1963:
- 'We invite you to fly!', 200 x 34 mm
- '40 years Aeroflot, 1923 - 1963', 197 x 35 mm


Two-sided bookmark by the Antonov Design Bureau, Kiev presenting the An-225 Price 43 Kop.
198 x 35 mm

