ANTARCTIC TRADE CARDS
No 316. Soviet science ship "Ob" postcard from 1966 to confirm a ham radio contact, date- stamped 3/2/66 but apparently unsent. Size: circa 5.875" x 4"
Recto: Color painted image of Soviet ship "Ob" off the Antarctic coast, with two Soviet scientists and five penguins on the ice shelf in the foreground.
Pingouin
(Aptenodytes Pennantii) Veritable Extrait de viande LIEBIG.
Voir l'explica:on au verso.
Verso: To Radio
Ur c/w/fone sigs RST .......... on ............ mc ..................... on
............... 19 ....................... at ....................... MSK
TX .................. INPUT .............. WTTS ............. ANT ........... RX
....................... TUBES
[date stamp 3 2 66] 73! OP ...........................
pse ur Qsl via post box 88,
Moscow, USSR.
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(Cyrillic text, also provided in French and English):
Une expedition scientifique complex sovietique travaille dans l'Antarctide. Sur la photo: l' "Ob", cargo diesel-electrique, pres des cotes du continent arctique do Sud.
A Soviet Scientific Complex Expedition at work in the Antarctic. On the photo: the Diesel electric ship "Obfrom 1966 " at the shore of the South polar continent.
Source: Peter Spielmann.