USSR Siberia OYROT AUTONOMOUS OBLAST 1924 “Small Head” 6k Incoming Mail to Ulala Altai - Scarce

SOVIET UNION SIBERIA 1924: OYROT AUTONOMOUS OBLAST INCOMING MAIL

Novo-Nikolaevsk 1924 (6 February) – Domestic cover to ULALA, OYROT OBLAST, bearing first Definitive issue 6k blue - with part of MOSCOVSKAYA FABR. GOZNAK LITOGRAPHIA imprint – solo franking paying the correct rate (tariff of 1st October 1923). Arrival on back ULALA ALT. 11 08 22. Adhesive roughly cut, otherwise Very Fine cover.

ULALA (renamed Gorno-Altaysk in 1932) was a village with a population of 5700 in 1926, which became the centre of the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast (Ойротская Автономная область) in 1922 and later, the capital of the Altai Republic. The distance between Ulala and Novo-Nikolaevsk (renamed Novosibirsk in 1926) is about 450 km.

Michel 233 Ib (litho, unwatermarked paper)

Standard 18

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