Cryptic definitions were typical for the Soviet Union, either by security reasons or by ingrained bureaucratic practices.
Cryptic definitions were typical for the Soviet Union, either by security reasons or by ingrained bureaucratic practices.
While checking our archives, we found a Christmas postcard from 1914, and then some more from different years. All of them were written in pre-reform Russian and featured an exchange between family members in Chernobyl and Kyiv in a period between two revolutions and partly during World War I. Actually, as it appeared from the texts, one of family members was a seaman on a battle ship.