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Topic: Help identifying cosmonaut autographs
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gareth89
Member Posts: 684
From: Ireland
Registered: May 2014
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posted 01-14-2025 02:01 PM
   
I’d appreciate the community’s help in identifying the signatures on some first day covers in my collection. I'm particularly interested in identifying the signatures of the eight people on the postcard. Thanks in advance for your help! 
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Neil DC
Member Posts: 212
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 01-14-2025 11:46 PM
- Dzhanibekov
- non cosmonaut
- Sarafanov
- Jahn
- Dzhanibekov
- Gorbatko
- non cosmonaut
- 8 unknowns
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cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 859
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-15-2025 03:23 AM
The 8 unknown on the Leningrad card might be veterans. The card was issued in 1965. |
gareth89
Member Posts: 684
From: Ireland
Registered: May 2014
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posted 01-15-2025 08:47 AM
Thanks for your input folks, and thank you to everyone who emailed me directly. I was thinking that the postcard with the 8 signatures was possibly signed by veterans but also that it may be a group of early aviators or rocket pioneers, still no idea unfortunately. |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 212
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 01-16-2025 12:13 PM
The 8 unknown signatures do not match any flown or unflown cosmonauts that I have encountered. Aviators or rocket pioneers would be a safer bet. |
Axman
Member Posts: 672
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 01-17-2025 09:45 AM
Of the eight unknown signatures, the top two both end in what looks like a set of six letters and a year date. My Cyrillic is not up to scratch, so a Russian speaker would be better to interpret it but a preliminary transcription would be: (undeciphered character) KHCC.C 1918/9, which in English would be (?)KNSS.S 1918/9 I have tried the obvious Google routes to transliterate this, but have hit a blank wall. Nonetheless I think it must be some Russian type of either a medal, a rank, or an organisation (think VC., Sgt.Maj., KOYLI, in England). To me this looks like veteran members from the end of the first world war/Russian Revolution who were all part of the same something whatever (?)KHCC.C was. |
bertvis
New Member Posts: 2
From: Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 01-23-2025 07:55 AM
It looks more like KPSS, which I guess would stand for Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Axman
Member Posts: 672
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 01-23-2025 09:19 AM
With the above information that the postscripts most likely designate Communist Party members I would suggest the following:The postcard the signatures are on is of the Field of Mars (Marsovo Polye) in Leningrad/ Saint Petersburg. It is the site of a monument and eternal flame consecrated to the fighters and victims of revolution, specifically the 1917 Revolution. As the postcard was published in 1965 I would suggest that the signatures are of surviving Revolutionaries from the Russian civil war period 1917-1919. I would further suggest that the postcard and associated signatures have nothing to do with the Soviet space program. It would appear to me that a western collector has incorporated the postcard into a space collection purely on account of the Mars designation on the printed information on the back of the postcard - unfortunately Mars in this regard is representative of the God of War and has nothing to do with Mars the planet, nor space travel. |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 859
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-23-2025 10:32 AM
Alan, I fully agree with you. Perhaps the Soviet partner sent the card with the 8 signatures to his friend from GDR as a gift. |
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