Cyrillic writing

See also: Cyrillic alphabet

• English: A gallery to display varieties of Cyrillic writing.
• Deutsch: Eine Sammlung von Bildern die die verschiedene Anwendungen von kyrillischer Schrift zeigen.
• Jèrriais: Eune gal'lie tchi mouontre des difféthentes manniéthes d'êcrithie en cyrillique.

Unsorted

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  1850s Romanian text (Lord's Prayer), written with Cyrillic script
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  Church Slavonic alphabet per Russian redaction
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  The Cyrillic alphabet on the birch bark N 591 from ancient Novgorod (Russia).
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  Name of sailing ship Kruzenshtern
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  Sailing ship Shtandart of Saint Petersburg
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  Картичка с петолиние на мелодията на старият български химн "Шуми Марица"
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  Insignia of a rank in the Serb Volunteer Guard
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  March of the discontented in Saint Petersburg
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  Lettering by Ivan Bilibin
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  Soviet mural inlay: Glory to Labour. In a Soviet railway station.
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  Russian tea brick money of Czar Nicholas II, dated 1891.
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  Russian rock group t-shirt
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  Russian marriage certificate (1907) for Warsaw
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  The caption on the t-shirt reads "Српски хероји", "Serbian heroes".
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  Communist Party of USSR membership card
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  Opening credits of the film Strike by Sergueï Eisenstein, 1925.
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  School-leaving certificate ("аттестат зрелости") of Anton Chekhov
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  Ukrainian t-shirts
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  Russian postbox
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  Ukrainian postbox
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  Post box, Moscow
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  Russian nobility confirmation
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  Карыкатура: «Далоў ганебны рыжскі падзел! Ніхай жыве вольная непадзельная селянская Беларусь!»
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  Museum exhibit. Palanok сastle. Mukacheve, Ukraine.
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  Plaque, Cathedral of Saint Sophia. Polatsk, Belarus.
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  Tinkov Russian beer ad on Geary boulevard in San Francisco, CA, June 2000
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  Plaque, Church of Saint Anne. Varoncha, Belarus.
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  First page of the Statute of the Beer Lovers Party (Belarus).
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  Monument to persons lost in the Great Patriotic War. Labeyki, Belarus.
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  Belarus (presidential elections, 2006)
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  Meeting of opposition after presidental election. October square, Minsk, Belarus. March 21 2006
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  Steam locomotive EM 726-23. Asipovichy, Belarus.
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  Plaque commemorating citizens shot 1944, Zhukaw Barok, Belarus.
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  Independence day banner, Minsk
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  Referendum flyer and taxi route sign, Transnistria
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  Election info, Transnistria
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  Demonstration to make the Russian language official in Kharkiv
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  Demonstration in favor of Russian language, Chuhuiv (Kharkiv Oblast)
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  Chetnik flag
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  Long live free Ukraine
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  Decision of proclamation of the Constitution of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia
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  Banner from the demonstration in Red Square supporting the Prague spring, 1968
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  Nameplate of the MAVAG locomotive factory on diesel locomotive VME1 exported to USSR
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  Konrad Lorenz
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  Noticeboard of the Sofia university study theatre "Alma Alter"

Printed

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  Ticket for taking photos in St. Petersburg Metro
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  An example of modern Church Slavonic typography (Luke 20:20-26).
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  Russian exchange copy of the Treaty of Cession
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  A paragraph from Book Three, Chapter Three of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, original edition in "The Russian Messenger"
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  Furniture factory, Rastorguyevsky lane, Moscow, 1900s
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  Text of the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Montenegro
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  Appeal to the Bulgarians of Macedonia to assist the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee
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  Menu, Moscow
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  Path to happiness is work (Gorky)
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  Lubok
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  Announcement on coronation of Russian Emperor Alexander III
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  Announcement in Ukrainian re Babi Yar
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  Russian magazine Russkaja Starina. 1880
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  Aeroflot c.1920s
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  1842 map of Russia
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  Perm Governorate News (newspaper, 1838)
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  The lyrics of the Soviet Union Hymn (1944) in the Belarusian language.
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  Patent for the Medal "Hero of the USSR"
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  Позив от Врачанския революционен комитет към войниците, изпратени да потушат Септемврийското въстание.
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  State power is transferred into the hands of the Military Revolutionary Committee 1917
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  Announcement of death of Lenin
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  The bookcover of "Samostiyna Ukrayina" (Independent Ukraine), 1900
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  Проект Санкт-Петербургских водопроводов. 1858 г. Титульный лист.
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  Rebus
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  Kazanie of Cyril, 1596
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  Tribunal of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilna
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  Grammatica printed in Mamonich print house, Vilna
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  Catechism printed in Niasvizh, Belarus
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  Bible printed by Francysk Skorina in 1517
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  Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1588
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  Третья Уставная грамота Рады Белорусской Народной Республики 1918
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  Advertising from 1929.
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  Christmas Stamp of Ukraine
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  Bandura player Potapenko
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  Kobzar, Kyiv (Printed postcard) 1925
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  Customs declaration, Ukraine
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  «Малая падарожная кніжыца», выдадзеная Францыскам Скарынам ў Вільні ў 1522 годзе
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  Political leaflet, Lviv, 2007
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  Publications of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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  билет в троллейбусе Мариуполя - 2007
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  Soviet Decree on peace 1917
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  German propaganda 1941: "Do not shed your blood for Stalin!"
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  Cristall of NaI(Tl). Size 40x40 mm. USSR, 1964.
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  Hamlet, in Russian translation
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  Tram ticket from Kyiv (Dachnaya Line)
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  Tram ticket from Mariupol
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  Trolley ticket from Mariupol
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Labels

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  Stari Melnik beer
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  Lidskoye beer (Lida, Belarus)
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  Tadzhik wine label

Books

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  Lev Tolstoy, War and Peace
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  Иностранные концессии в народном хозяйстве СССР, 1928
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  Slavonic primer by Marko Teodorovich, Bulgarian from Razlog, 1792.
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  First page from the first edition of Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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  Front page of 1800 edition of the "Слово о полку Игореве"
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  Cover of "Folk songs of the Macedonian Bulgars" by Stefan Verkovic (1860).
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  Daily notes of the journey of Ivan Lepechin, through various provinces of the Russian state, in 1768 and 1769.
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  Page 149 from a 1900 Russian edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Tierleben.
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  Cover of first edition of "The Cavalry Maiden" (1836) by Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866).
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  Example of article from Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language
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  Cover of Russian edition of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1892).
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  Cover of book by Belarusian poet Janka Kupala. Printed in Wilno (Vilnius) in 1919.
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  The cover page by Alexey Krouchyonykh for Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Stihi" book of poems.
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  Page from first Chuvash language book (1800).
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  English: The first printed book in Ossetic, published in 1798. The right column is in Ossetic.

  Русский: Первая печатная книга на осетинском языке (последний разворот с указанием выходных данных). Московская синодальная типография, 1798. Двуязычный текст в две колонки: правая — на осетинском.
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  Matija Divković's book written in bosančica script
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  The first chapters of Gospel of Luke printed in Vilna 1600.
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  Grammatica slovenska printed in Vilna 1596.
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  Extrait d'une version russe de Pan Tadeusz, d'Adam Mickiewicz, en orthographe russe antérieure à la réforme orthographique de 1917 (Saint Petersbourg, 1902).
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  Russian War statute of 1716 in Russian and German
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  Lithuanian prayer book "Auksa altorius" (Golden Altar) published in Cyrillic script by Tsarist authorities when Lithuanian press ban was instituted
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  Alexander Blok. Sedoe Utro, cover of book. 1920.
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  Сад пыток, Octave Mirbeau
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  Orientalised cyrillic book title: UKHTOMSKY, E. The Account of Travels Made by His Imperial Highness Tzesarevich to the East, 1890–1891
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  Russian Japonism with orientalised cyrillic: Обложка книги "Япония и японцы" 1902
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  Коронационный сборник 14 мая 1896 года
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Banknotes

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  1898 Russian Empire 1 ruble bill
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  Soviet money bill, 1922
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  1961 Soviet Union 3 rubles bill
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  20 Yugoslav dinar (1974)
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  5 hryvnia banknote, Ukraine, 1992
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  Montenegrin Banknote of 20 Perper (1914)
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  Пяцьдзесят капеек. Разьліковы білет Нацыянальнага Банка Беларусі ўзору 1992 году. Зьнешняя старана.
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  Kyrgyzstan banknote
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  Russian banknote 1917
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  Chervonetz - early Soviet money bill, 1922

Newspapers

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  Pravda newspaper front page (around 1950s).
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  Pravda 1917
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  Izvestiya
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  Newspapers of Russian minority in Ukraine
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  First issue of Ossetic language newspaper "Rastdzinad", 1923.
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  Izvestiya, 1917
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  Bulletin of the Opposition, reproduction of the first page of the first issue from July 1929
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Posters

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  Dmitry Donskoy, Poster of 1914 (Donate warm clothes for wounded)
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  Elena the Beautiful poster of 4 October 1873
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  Poster for the 1926 Census in the Soviet Union
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  Soviet WWII propaganda poster
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  1917 Russian election poster
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  Theatre poster, Donetsk
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  Russian poster from 1895
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  German poster Serbia 1942
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  German poster Serbia 1943
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  Wrangel pster
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  1897 announcement for the first movie shown in Sofia, Bulgaria

Passports

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  Kazakhstan passport
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  An old passport of Montenegro, issued in 1887
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  Russian visa
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  Cover of the Soviet International (Foreign) Passport
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  Belarus visa
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  Russian passport
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  Belarus passport

Emblems

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  Emblem of the Russian Imperial University in Warsaw (1870-1915)
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  Русский: Логотип Виртуального Оператора Сотовой связи "Просто для общения"

Inscribed

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  Młyny (Poland), the tomb of Werbycki – the author of the Ukrainian national anthem.
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  Мемориальная доска в Бендерах
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  Мемориальная табличка на площади святого Апостола Андрея Первозванного, Батайск
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  grave of Mily Balakirev.
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  Обелиск. Троице-Сергиева лавра. Сергиев Посад, Россия.
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  Fresco on Voroneţ church, Romania
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  Plaque on cruiser Aurora
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  Monument to the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, Tran, Bulgaria.
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  Soviet monument commemorating the meeting of US and Soviet troops in Torgau, Saxony (Germany)
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  Commemorative plaque in Taganrog, for Russian playwright, poet and statesman Nestor Kukolnik in 1857-1868
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  Notice about Pinus heldreichii 1300 years old - Pirin mountain in Bulgaria
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  Russian 107 mm M1910 gun, displayed in Hämeenlinna Artillery Museum
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  Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Sofia
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  Small wooden Greek Catholic church in Rudka near Przeworsk, Poland. Inscription over the front door.
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  Despot's inscription on a small town tower in Smederevo Fortress.
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  grave of Gerasim Lebedev.
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  St Nicholas church from Braşov
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  St Nicholas church from Braşov
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  Stavropigia Institution building in Lviv
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  Commemorative plaque in Alexander Matrosov street in Saint-Petersburg
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  Moscow Metro station Avtozavodskaya, memorial for victims of the 2004 bombing
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  Monument to victims of Kurenivka mudslide in Kyiv
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  Allied Memorial Park of Zeitenlik in Salonica. The Serbian Cenotaph
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  Plaque for Lenin's travel to Russia via Tornio in 1917
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  Tablet dedicated to Nikolay Mamonov on the railway station in Mamonovo, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
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  Plaque in Donetsk
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  Plaque which marks the place of the Sava Gate in Belgrade.
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  Памятная доска К. Чуковского (Санкт-Петербург, Манежный пер., 6).
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  Табличка на Спасо-Преображенском соборе (Санкт-Петербург)
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  Plaque to victims of KGB repression (in Ukrainian)
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  Plaque in Donetsk
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  Beslan Monument, Saint Petersburg
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  69 школа в Донецке имени Жердева
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  Deutsch: Gedächtnistafel zum Gedenken an die Völkerschlacht mit russischer Inschrift rechts neben dem Kirchenportal
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  Temnic inscription from X-XI century.
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Signage

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  Entrance to the village of Razhevo, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
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  Memorial about en:Siege of Leningrad, St. Peterburg, Nevsky prospect, 14
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  Signs in Mongolian at Ulaanbaatar airport
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  Russian and Mongolian train destination board
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  Pizza Hut, Moscow
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  Metal factory, Mariupol
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  Cinema in Moscow
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  The entrance gate and main building of Sofia Technical University.
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  Odesa market
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  Peter I house. Polatsk, Belarus.
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  Baranivka
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  Кинотеатр «Победа», Минск
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  Караганде в феврале 1934 года присвоен статус города - Arabic-style Cyrillic lettering in Karaganda
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  Kinopalats cinema chain (Ukraine)
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  Донецк. Дворец спорта Шахтёр
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  Arbat, Moscow
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  Sberbank, Russia
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  Grave of Askold, Kyiv
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  Аншлаг строительства Церкови во имя Державной иконы Божией Матери (Санкт-Петербург)
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  Bank, Moscow
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  Cinema "Udarnik" in Moscow
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  Театр Юнного Зрителя (ТЮЗ), Санкт-Петербург
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  Зимна Вода (Polish Zimna Woda), means Cold Water, village in Ukraine near Lviv
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  Entrance to Zakarpattia Oblast / Oblast Transkarpatien, Ukraine, from Ivano-Frankivsk on route P 03, Jablunicja-pass, 931 meters above sea level
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  Кинотеатр «Баррикады», Moscow
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  Кинотеатр «Киноцентр», Moscow
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  Signs in Lviv
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  Шильда военно-дипломатической миссии БНР в Латвии и Эстонии
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  Sign, Checkpoint Charlie
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  Sign, Checkpoint Charlie
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  Priazovye State Technical University Mariupol (Ukraine)
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  Entrance to Azovstal Park Mariupol (Ukraine)
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  Entrance to City Garden Mariupol (Ukraine)
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  Sofiyivsky Park
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  Sofiyivsky Park
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  Entrance of the Kaliningrad Zoo, Russia.
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  Donetsk German POW cemetery
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  Entrance to the Ayu-Dag mountain, Crimea
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  Волгоцеммаш, Тольятти, Россия
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  The house of the war hero Mansuzi Wanahun in Milyanfan village, Kyrgyzstan, displays a bilingual sign in Dungan and Russian.
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  Signs on the street corner in Milyanfan village, Kyrgyzstan. On the right, Lenin St is labeled in Dungan; on the left, Lineiny Lane is labeled in Kyrgyz.
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  A Kazakh let speak with a Kazakh in the Kazakh language
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Transport

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  Signage in Sofia Metro
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  Rousse
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  Lviv Suburban Rail Terminal, Ukraine
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  Дицяча залізниця. Ужгород, Україна.
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  Название станции московского метро Академическая на путевой стене
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  Electronic display, Moscow Metro station Kievskaya
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  Tram stop in Moscow
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  Moscow Metro
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  Moscow Metro sign
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  Kazan Metro sign in Russian and Tatar
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  Kazan Metro sign in Tatar and Russian
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  sign in Kyiv Metro
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  Lukianivska station of the Kyiv Metro
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  Grammar mistake on a road sign in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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  Хлевное,автостанция
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  Цэнтральны аўтавакзал. Менск, Беларусь.
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  Saint Petersburg Metro signs
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  Станция метро «Ломоносовская». Название.
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  Станция метро «Академическая».
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  Станция метро «Академическая».
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  Bishkek train station
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  Tram AKCM-60102 in Minsk
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  AKCM-333 trolleybus in Minsk
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  Автобус Mercedes Travego
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Street signs

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  Street sign in Novi Sad
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  Bulgaria
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  Street plates showing current and former names of the Svetogorska street in Belgrade.
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  Name plate of 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Moscow, Russia
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  Табличка с описанием происхождения названия переулка в Петровском переулке, Москва
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  Street named after Sanjaasurengiin Zorig
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  Ukraine
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  Belarus
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  Banja Luka
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  Belgrade
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  Serbian Cyrillic/English street sign for sightseeing in Belgrade Centre
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  Lviv
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  Almaty
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  Bilingual sign in Ufa

Shopping

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  Russian and Kazakh shopping signage
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  A MegaFon shop in Moscow
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  Eurocet, Russia
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  Soviet shop in Milovice 1985
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  Ramstor hypermarket
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  Магазин "Мелодия" на просп. Победы Мариуполь (Украина)
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  A Pyatyorochka supermarket in Moscow
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  Russian signage in Cyprus
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  Строящийся супермаркет "Шериф" в центре Бендер
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  Bureau de change, telecoms, travel tickets: Moscow
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  Lublin supermarket, Brest (Gothic-style script)
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  Chongarsky boulevard
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  Art Nouveau lettering on Singer House, Saint Petersburg
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  Singer House, Saint Petersburg

Buildings

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  Theatre, Kazakhstan
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  Central book store. Minsk, Belarus.
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  "Apranajka" store, Minsk, Belarus.
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  Verkhovna Rada, Parliament of Ukraine, Kyiv
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  Little City Theatre "Off the Channel", Sofia, Bulgaria
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  Sofia puppet theatre, Gurko Street, Sofia, Bulgaria
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  Sofia Municipal Theatre "Vuzrajdane", housed in the building of the Sofia Library, Slaveikov square, Sofia, Bulgaria
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  Bulgarian army Theatre, Rakovska Street, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Handwritten

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  The letter on the birch bark N 109 from ancient Novgorod (Russia).
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  First known russian manuscript Ostromir Gospel.
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  Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in cursive
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  Russian cursive
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  Detail from the 2003 twenty-hryvnia note, showing the fragment of Franko's handwriting in the Drahomanivka alphabet.
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  Ninth draft of the beginning of Tolstoy's novel War and Peace
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  Reichstag: Russian graffiti
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  Letter of Goce Delcev to Nikola Maleshevski, an activist of IMARO
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  A letter of Mussorgsky to Stasov in which he writes about his progress in composing Pictures at the Exhibition.
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  Bulgarian Sofia Psalter, 1337.
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  Сочинение о Московском государстве в середине xvii столетия Григория Котошихина Автограф Скоропись xvii века
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  Lenin's signature
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  Soviet WWII propaganda poster
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  The signature of Apollon Maykov (1821–1897), Russian poet.
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  Vladimir L. Komarov (1869-1945), Russian botanist, signature
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  Handwritten message on photo, Irina Baronova
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  First page of the Tarnovo Constitution
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  Telegram from the Provisional government in Plovdiv to Knyaz Alexander I proclaiming the Unification of Bulgaria, 6 September 1885.
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  Proposal for a parliamentary decision envisaging membership of Bulgaria in the European Union voted by the VII Grand National Assembly of Bulgaria on 22 December 1990
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  Signature of Khmelnytsky
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  Bulgarian signatures
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  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's signature
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  Postcard 1907
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  Vitosha Charter of Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
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  Corfu Declaration 1917
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  Padlock, Odesa
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  Дневник Валеры Сухова. 10 лет. Музей блокады Ленинграда
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  Messages left behind by fallen Soviet soldiers are engraved at this "Memorial for the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic"
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  Letter signed (1744) by A. Hanibal, the great grandfather of the poet A. S. Pushkin, during his period as governor of Reval (Tallinn) 1742-52.
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  Beseda na jeres
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  Письмо Наримана Нариманова В. И. Ленину о генералах русской армии С. Мехмандарове и А. Шихлинском. 1920 г.
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  Прошение о разрешении устроить водокачальню
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  Russian birth certificate of Michael Lucas
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  1942 postcard
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  Писмо от българската община в село Палиор, Кайлярско до емборчанина Христо Върбенов с молба за парична помощ
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  Letter by Tsar Peter I. to Natalya Kirillovna in 1689. Still, the font resembles very much to Greek uncial types.
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  Neacşu's Letter, written in 1512, is the oldest surviving document available in Romanian.
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  Лист документа о переделе меди в монету. Первая четверть XVIII века
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  Copy of Yiddish play "Fanatik" written by A. Goldfadn
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  Переяслав-Хмельницький, табличка на місці давнього Михайлівського собору

Graffiti

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  Zvezda, Srbija, Kosovo, Metohija mural at Stadion Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade
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  Graffiti, Moscow
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  Српски / srpski: Графит Лешинара у Борику
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  English: Shut up, bitch, your day is March 8th
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  Category:Soviet graffiti in the Reichstag (building)
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  Graffiti
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  Graffiti in Russia
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Typewritten

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  Beria's letter to Stalin and the Politburo
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  Decree about creation of Spartak society, 19 April 1935
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  list of 346 persons to be executed. Stalin's resolution: "за" (affirmative) January 1940
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  1953. By this Soviet government Ukaz, Lidiya Timashuk was awarded with the Order of Lenin
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  1943 document on federal principle of Yugoslavia
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  1945 Soviet report
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  Letter from Gorky to Stalin

Ecclesiastical script

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  Jesse (father to king David), Russian icon from first quarter of C18th
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  First page of Macarie's «Liturghier»
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  Воронеж, ворота Алексеево-Акатова монастыря
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  Обратная сторона фотокарточек Левицкого
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