LITHUANIA : SOVIET PERIOD : POSTMARKS
KLAIPĖDAI
Cover with the postmark of Klaipėda.
Original print size of this image: 16,341 x 11,693 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The Russian indication in the postmark: КЛАЙПЕДА (KLAIPEDA).
The postmark and registering postmark, resized 50 %:
The postmark and registering postmark, resized 50 %.
Envelop with the machine-postmark of Klaipėda.
Original print size of this image: 15,807 x 11,514 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmarks, resized 50 %.
Another cover with a machine-postmark.
Original print size of this image: 15,604 x 11,490 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmark, resized 50 %.
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
LAZDIJAI
The postmark, resized 50%.
Envelope with the postmark of ЛАЗДИЯЙ [LAZDIYAI], the Lithuanian Lazdijai.
LIUDVINAVAS
Cover, postal stationery, with the postmark of ЛЮДВИНАВАС [LYUDVINAVAS], in Lithuanian Liudvinavas.
The postmark: resized 50%
Original print size of this image: 16,036 x 11,388 cm (is something more as the postal item)
MAŽEIKIAI
Envelope with the postmark of МАЖЕЙКЯЙ [MAZHEIKYAI], the Lithuanian Mažeikiai.
Original print size of this image: 16,391 x 11,667 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmark and registration postmark: resized 50%.
This place in northern Lithuania was already in tsaristic times -with also the name Murajewo-an important railway-junction.
MIEŽIŠKIAI
Envelope, issued by the LTSR.
On the leftside we see the statue of Lenin on the square.
Original print size of this image: 15,833 x 11,185 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmark -resized here 50 %- is of ПЕЖИШКЯЙ ЛИТ. [MEZHISHKYAI LIT.], and we see also the Lithuanian indication MIEŽIŠKIAI.
NEMENČINĖ
Original print size of this image: 15,528 x 11,363 cm (is something more as the postal item)
Nemenčinė, in Russian НЕМЕНЧИНЕ [NEMENCHINE], is located about 20 km north-east of Vilnius. In 2005 the population was 5.885. More about it in Wikipedia.
The postmark, resized 50 %.
There is no stamp used and on the backside we see the fieldpost-postmark.
The cover is sent to Komi ASSR, place of people deportations in Stalin times: more covers to this place see: Soviet fieldpost from Lithuania.
PAKRUOJIS
Cover, sent from Pakruojis, a city in the north of Lithuania (district Šiauliai)
In the postmark you see also the Russian indication: ПАКРУОИС [PAKRUOIS].
Original print size of this image: 16,417 x 11,818 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmark is a machine-postmark, resized 50 %.
PANEVĖŽYS
Cover from Panevėžys, with also the Russian indication ПАНЕВЕЖИС [PANEVEZHIS]
The postmark is Type 4
The postmark and registering postmark: resized 50 %.
Original print size of this image: 16,137 x 11,870 cm (is something more as the postal item)
PRIEKULĖ
Cover from Priekulė, with also the Russian indication ПРЕКУЛЕ.
The postmark, resized 50 %.
Original print size of this image: 14,740 x 10,346 cm (is something more as the postal item).
RADVILIŠKIS
Cover from Radviliškis.
The cover, with the statue of general Chernyakhovsky in Vilnius at that time -now back to Russia-, is issued by the LTSR.
The Russian indication in the postmark is РАДВИЛИШКИС [RADVILISHKIS].
Original print size of this image: 15,426 x 10,753 cm (is something more as the postal item).
The postmark: resized 50 %.
Machine-postmarks
Here a cover from Radviliškis with a machine-postmark.
The postmark, resized 50 %.
Original print size of this image: 16,087 x 11,413 cm (is something more as the postal item).
Here a cover from Radviliškis with a newer type -date between two parallel lines- machine-postmark.
Original print size of this image: 16,163 x 11,641 cm (is something more as the postal item).
The postmark: resized 50 %.
ŠAKIAI
Machine-postmark of Šakiai. The Russian indication for this place is ШАКЯЙ [SHAKYAI].
The postmark, resized 50 %.
Original print size of this image: 16,544 x 11,871 cm (is something more as the postal item).
ŠIAULIAI
Envelope with the postmark of ШЯУЛЯЙ [SHYAULYAI], the Lithuanian Šiauliai.
Original print size of this image: 16,010 x 11,515 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The postmark, resized 50%.
Before 1918: ШАВЛИ, the transcription of this, 'Shawli', looks somewhat like the Polish name, 'Szawle'. The old German name was 'Schaulen'.
Envelope with the machine-postmark of ШЯУЛЯЙ (SHYAULYAI), the Lithuanian Šiauliai.
The postmark, resized 50%.
An envelope with a postage stamp, Mi. 5643. On the postage stamp is shown the monument of liberation in Šiauliai.
The cover is issued by the LTSR. The postage stamp is issued 26-9-1986: 750th anniversary of Šiauliai as city.
Original print size of this image: 16,391 x 11,641 cm (is something more as the postal item)
The special postmark of Šiauliai: resized 50%.
The registering-postmark: only in Russian.
Lithuania - the reference book on Soviet Lithuania-
(see literature before, p. 70-73):
"Šiauliai is a city located in the north of the Lithuanian SSR. A raion centre, it has a population of 130,000 (1983) and
occupies an area of 70 sq km. ....
Of Lithuania's gross industrial output, Šiauliai accounts for 6 percent. There are 37 industrial enterprises, ....
Late in 1918 the Šiauliai Soviet of Workers' Representatives was elected, the Žemaičiai Regiment of the Red Army was formed. From January to March 19219 the city was under Soviet power. In March 1919 German interventionist troops seized the city and ceded it to the Lithuanian bourgeoisie. ....
In the summer of 1944 a fierce battle raged for the possession of the city. Here, the Šiauliai Offensive Operation was carried out, during which
the Red Army liberated Šiauliai on July 27, 1944; in the battles took part the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division of the Red Army. Roughly 80 percent of the buildings were
destroyed. The city was rebuilt by 1950. ..."
On the backside we see of course the arrival-postmark of Odessa, and the details of the issue.
The envelope is issued by the LTSR.
ŠILUTĖ
Cover from Šilutė.
In the postmark, resized 50 %, we see also the Russian indication ШИЛУТЕ [SHILUTE]:
Original print size of this image: 15,604 x 11,438 cm (is something more as the postal item).
On the backside the postmark of Kaunas 'Cechas-2': see Kaunas about this kind of postmarks.
On this cover the machine-postmark of Šilutė.
Original print size of this image: 15,706 x 11,464 cm (is something more as the postal item).
The postmark, resized 50 %.
SKAISTGIRIS
Envelope with the postmark of СКАЙСТГИРИС [SKAISTGIRIS], the Lithuanian Skaistgirys
The postmark, resized 50%.
Skaistgirys is a little place, 2001 it had a population of 964, in northern Lithuania.