USSR Airmail 1934 Igarka Far North Artic Route - Very Rare
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SOVIET AIRMAIL FAR NORTH ARTIC ROUTE: IGARKA - YENISEI RIVER - MOSCOW
Igarka, Krasnoyarsk region 1934 (June) - Domestic Airmail 15k stationery envelope uprated with 1929/1930 Soviet Definitives, sent to Moscow via the FAR NORTH KRASNOYARSK - DIKSON route. 80k franking paying the correct inland EXPRESS letter (tariff of 15 May 1932). Arrival on the back "MOSCOW 11 07 1934". Very Fine.
Letter sent by the famous scientist & meteorologist G. Tauber.
Igarka was a small settlement in the Far North (12,000 inhabitants) on the Yenisei river. The Krasnoyarsk - Dikson far North route was operational in 1932, run by the company Avia-Arktika. From Igarka, mail was flown to Yenesseisk, Krasnnoyarsk where it was handed over to the Trans-siberian air route to Novossibirsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, then to Kazan, Gorki and finally Moscow.
Following the Siberian rivers, the company was using hydroplanes until Kransoyarsk, the main hub of artic aviation. See Mr Ackerman excellent reference book "Via The Red Skies" (pages 283-284): "Postal documents to/from Russia’s Northern Territory until after WW II are extremely scarce due to the sparse regional population, low literacy of most inhabitants, difficulties in communication in the frozen North, and the fact that until modern times people rarely saved letters/covers."
Very rare airmail route w/ an attractive franking.
Letter sent by the famous scientist & meteorologist G. Tauber.
Igarka was a small settlement in the Far North (12,000 inhabitants) on the Yenisei river. The Krasnoyarsk - Dikson far North route was operational in 1932, run by the company Avia-Arktika. From Igarka, mail was flown to Yenesseisk, Krasnnoyarsk where it was handed over to the Trans-siberian air route to Novossibirsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, then to Kazan, Gorki and finally Moscow.
Following the Siberian rivers, the company was using hydroplanes until Kransoyarsk, the main hub of artic aviation. See Mr Ackerman excellent reference book "Via The Red Skies" (pages 283-284): "Postal documents to/from Russia’s Northern Territory until after WW II are extremely scarce due to the sparse regional population, low literacy of most inhabitants, difficulties in communication in the frozen North, and the fact that until modern times people rarely saved letters/covers."
Very rare airmail route w/ an attractive franking.
Provenance: ex Druzhinin
Michel 369, 374
Standard 232, 237
Michel 369, 374
Standard 232, 237
Product Code: 2224
Product Condition: Used
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