LITHUANIA : SOVIET PERIOD : POSTMARKS


KAČERGINĖ

Cover sent from Kačerginė in central Lithuania, 16 km west of Kaunas. A very small town: according Wkipedia 715 inhabitants (2001).

Original print size of this image: 15,680 x 11,439 cm (is something more as the postal item)








The postmark resized 50%.




In the postmark is also indicated: КАЧЕРГИНЕ [KACHERGINE]
Kačerginė is very small, but it has its own website: www.kacergine.lt, with pictures of the library and post office.




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)


The postmark: 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'.







The postmark, resized 50%.

Kaunas - Cechas


Envelope with a postmark of Kaunas-Cechas-1.









The postmark, resized 50%. 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-2.







Another postmark of Kaunas Cechas-2 on a cover from Šilutė.


The postmark, resized 50%.









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 postmark, resized 50%.










Kavarskas, a very little town, lies in north-east Lithuania, 24 km. east from the district town Ukmerge. Kavarskas has a population of only 700 is the fourth smallest city in Lithuania.



KĖDAINIAI

Original print size of this image: 16,061 x 11,489 cm (is something more as the postal item)






In the postmark - resized 50% - the indication КЕДАЙНЯЙ [KEDAINYAI], the Lithuanian Kėdainiai.









Kėdainiai is located in central Lithuania, 51 km north of Kaunas.