KACERGINE

КАЧЕРГИНЕ = Kacergine. Postmark resized 50%:

KAUNAS

A card sent from Kaunas in the Soviet period 1940-1941. The card is sent to Germany and you see the German censorship-postmark. Original print size of this image: 14,613 x 10,473 cm (is something more as the postal item) Resized 50%:

The postmark is something unclear, but on the other side of the card is wriiten the date of writing: 7-IV-1941. As we have seen before, within the types of postmarks this is Type 3, one of the two types used in the Soviet period 1940-1941.

Envelope with a postmark of КАУНАС = Kaunas This is a somewhat special postmark upgrading a postal stationary to a registered letter.

The postmark resized 50%:

As great city Kaunas had many postmarks, as here 'Kaunas-26'. Postmark rsized 50%:

Kaunas - Cechas

In the large towns there was one Head Post office, so called ПОЧТАМТ - Pochtamt and many regional post offices. After collecting letters from post boxes, these small post offices sent it to the Pochtamt. There were few branches - ЦЕХ (in Lithuanian: Cechas) for sorting. These branches were bearing numbers according to number of them. There were such branches for local delivery, for delivery in the Soviet Union and a branche for outgoing correspondence

Envelope with a postmark of Kaunas-Cechas-1. The postmark, resized 50%:

Envelope with a postmark of Kaunas-Cechas-2. The postmark, resized 50%: Another postmark of Kaunas Cechas-2 on a cover from Šilutė.

Formular-card with a postmark of Kaunas-Cechas-4: The postmark, resized 50%:

КАУНАС ОПП (KAUNAS OPP) postmark on a cover from Klaipėda:

On the back-side the postmark Kaunas PPS, or in Russian КАУНАС ОПП (KAUNAS OPP) , short for ОТДЕЛЕНИЯ (OTDELENIYA) ПЕРЕВОЗКИ (PEREVOZKI) ПОЧТЫ (POCHTY), this means Department for Post-handling

Cover from Kaunas, but sent back from the DDR. More special is the postmark on the backside: two rows, so within the types of postmarks this is Type 5, resized 50 %:

More about -now disappeared- statues of Kaunas in the Soviet period : see Kaunas in the Soviet period



KAVARSKAS

Envelope with the postmark of КАВАРСКАС(KAVARSKAS), the Lithuanian Kavarskas. The postmark, resized 50%:

KĖDAINIAI

Original print size of this image: 16,061 x 11,489 cm (is something more as the postal item) Resized 50%: КЕДАЙНЯЙ (KEDAINYAI), the Lithuanian Kėdainiai

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