Here we take a look at the Soviet city of Gomel via 12 postcards from 1966. With text in Belorussian the postcard packet was aimed at a domestic audience. We have translated the text into English. (We previously looked at Soviet Gomel in: Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards) During the Soviet era, Gomel was rebuilt from wartime devastation and transformed into a major industrial, cultural, and educational center of the Byelorussian SSR. Gomel suffered extreme destruction d

Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...