USSR 1934 TPO "296" Sosika-Eisk Railway Line on Azov Sea Shore - Very Scarce

SOVIET RAILWAY: TPO "296" SOSIKA-EISK LINE ON AZOV SEA SHORE

Sosika-Eisk TPO "296" 1934 (27 July) - Domestic envelope to Moscow, posted at a Travelling PO wagon on the Sossika-Eisk railway line. Franked with 1929/1930 Soviet Definitives 15k & 5k paying the correct rate (Tariff of 25 February 1933), tied by a very fine strike of the very scarce oval postmark "COCЫKA - 296 - ЕЙСК 2 17 7. 34". Circular "2493" on back, as well as arrival Moscow 29 July 1934. Very Fine.

Very scarce Soviet TPO from the shores of Azov Sea. Generally speaking, all Soviet mail sent via railway Travelling Post Offices are uncommon. 

Michel 369, 372

Standard 232, 235

Note: Eisk / Ейск is a port town located on the shore of the Taganrog Gulf, Azov Sea. The railway connection between Eisk and Sosika was built during imperial times, with the same allocated numbers (295 & 296, see Robinson "Russian Railway Postmarks" R295.1 and R296.x, very scarce). Sosika was a very small station with limited facilities, opened only in 1915 and handling negligible quantities of mail.

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