Can Anyone Read Russian?

Here's the flip side of the Easter card. It appears to be pretty clear
except around where someone had soaked or steamed off the stamp. That
could have helped date it, but it is almost certainly imperial era.

Have been researching this further and the closet I can come to Sook-so is Sochi in Crimea. Is that a real possibility or is it too much of a stretch?

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OK, I think not. You had already translated Sochi, card 5 in the first group.

In regard to Bath Building #3, Staraya Russia (second post card of second group), Wikipedia says of Staraya:




Thought that was interesting.

Russian writers are real heavy..i read Crime and Punishment when I was too young and it sent me into a deep depression !!

I started reading The Brothers Karamazov but didn't get very far.
I did read Dr. Zhivago maybe 40 years ago. Pasternak wasn't quite
that heavy and it did have some romance to it.

oh I almost forgot about that... I did some research and its pronounced Suuk-su and is an area between the town of Gurzuf and Ayu-Dag in Crimea. the name is Tatar language and means cold water. I think Puskin spent some time there.

russian wiki
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1...%D0%A1%D1%83

sochi is the town where the 2014 olymics are going to be, its on the black sea but not the crimea.

the next group - minus the handwritten one (i'll try that one later!)

card 1
i think the cancel says 'ÐÅÞÁÔÉ' or 'press'
'No. 668 ÂÁËÕ. ÏÂÝÉÊ ×ÉÄ ÇÏÒÏÄÁ.' 'No. 668 Baku. General view of town.'
'ÆÏÔÏÔ ÐÒ. Ë. Ô-ËÁ ÁÒÅÌØ, ÆÏÔÏÔÉÐÏ× ÍÏÓË×Á' 'Photo K. Veh Areli, phototype Moscow'

card 2
in the picture 'ÐÒÏ×ÁÌß' 'collapse'
'ÐÑÔÉÇÏÒÓË. ÐÒÏ×ÁÌ.' 'Pyatigorsk collapse'
'ÄÌÑ ÁÄÒÅÓÁ' ' to address'
'ÍÅÃÃÏ-ÔÉÎÔÏ, ÓÅ×ËÁ×ÉÚÄÁÔ ÒÏÓÔÏ× Î-Ä' ' 'Mezzotint, Sevkavizdat Rostov-on-Don'

card 3
'ÖÅÌÅÚÎÏ×ÏÄÓË ËÁÍÅÎØ ÕÐÁ×ÛÉÊ Ó ×ÅÒÛÉÎÙ ÖÅÌÅÚÎÏÊ ÇÏÒÙ' 'Zheleznovodsk, from the summit of the mountain railway'
'ÔÉÎ. ÉÚ× ÎÉË ÓÓÓÒ É ×ÃÉË ÍÏÓË×Á' 'tin. <nic. (Central Election Commission) USSR and (All-Russian Central Executive Committee)> Moscow'

card4
in picture 'ÓÁÎËÌÉÎÉËÁ ÓÅÍÁÛËÏ' Sanclinic (i think this is like a sanatorium) Semashko
'no. 218 ËÒÙÍ. ÅÚÎÁÔÏÒÑÑ ÓÁÎËÌÉÎÉËÁÀ ÉÍ. ÓÅÍÁÛËÏÀ' 'no. 218 Crimea. Evpatoria Sanclinic Semashko'

card 5
'ÏÔËÒÙÔÏÅ ÐÉÓØÍÏ' 'open letter'
'ÖÅÌÅÚÎÏ×ÏÄÓË. ÍÁÒÉÉÎÓËÉÊ ÉÓÔÏÞÎÉË' 'Zheleznovodsk. Mariinsky source'
'ÍÅÃÃÏ-ÔÉÎÔÏ æ.÷ÅÒÛÅÃËÏÇÏ. íÏÓË×Á' 'Mezzotint F. Vershetskogo Moscow'

i looked this one up on russian wiki also and it appears to be a mineral water source. see section 1.2 in the link below.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1....D0.B8.D0.BA

also mezzotint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzotint

Excellent! Thank you very much.

I looked at the Russian wiki link, but off course couldn't read it.
I tried Suuk-su in google and the first shown there is the English
wikipedia with what must basically be what you saw in Russian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suuksu

Then there is this link to another postcard on ebay.

Don't those rocks look familiar?

And is that the same home from my postcard in the distance up on that cliff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/RUSSIA-UKRAINE-...rt_W0QQitemZ390007522027QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20081110?IMSfp=TL0811101110003r5505

Here is the English wikipedia link. Did you get all that out of the
Russian version? My god!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheleznovodsk