Translation Help

[Art]

Hello everyone,

I'm wondering if anyone has ever researched the stamps we find so often on documents. I'm not able to read or write Russian ( which has been a real problem for me in this hobby ) so I was curious if there is any good information within these stamps that we are overlooking? Seems like many are different. Some have serial numbers, some look like stamps which are specific to a military unit.

Art

[Skrabichewski]

Hi,
Usually stamps on documents like "DOSAAF" "Komsomol" or "Communist Party" IDs are memborship due stamps with denominations in RBL and KOP. see example attached

I hope this helps.

Dmitry

[Tal Inbar]

Hi

I think Art was refering to this kind of stamp: (image courtesy of Nota Bene)

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The next pictures and info are the courtesy of Nota Bene:) :

Some original WWII ink seals often found on fake award documents. This doesn't mean, of course, that you can't find one of those on an original document.

Department of the Fortified Areas of the Stalingrad Front :

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Military Unit # 06951 (this one is worn and not very clear) :

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Military Commissariat of the Moldavian Republic # 2 (a little damaged) :

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Department of the Counterintelligence "SMERSh" of the Karelian Front :

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Peoples' Commissariat of the Internal Affairs. For Executive and Financial Documents :

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Personnel Department of the 8th Guards Army :

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Peoples' Commissariat of Defense. Department of the Counterintelligence "SMERSh" of the 211th Rifles Army :