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posted 05-29-2016 06:01 PM               

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I was inspired by some of you, who created websites to show your collections, so I created mine.

Meanwhile I filled the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) part — I don't have too much stuff. I would appreciate if you can take a 30-second look through and let me know your opinion. I understand, I need to work more on the texts, as English is not my mother language.

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posted 06-11-2016 03:25 PM               

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Gentlemen, thanks for support and feedback. I just added another section — Soyuz in Guiana, though it might be ridicules subject, but for me — its a piece of history.

I will add more ASTP covers in a couple of weeks.

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posted 06-11-2016 04:01 PM               

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Soyuz in Guiana is not a ridiculous topic, especially if you treat it rigorously.

Any Astro subject developed through chronological criteria, fixing major astrophilatelic phases as launches, docking, orbit insertions, landings, etc., can be of real interest.

Thanks again for sharing your material with others and I hope to see another subject (Vostochny cosmodrome).

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posted 06-12-2016 05:53 AM               

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Thanks Antoni!

Actually Vostochny only marked its birth with the first launch. I have a couple of covers with Lomonosov satellite special postmark from Uglegorsk, but it will take time to publish them in my site.

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posted 12-08-2016 10:47 AM               

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I have almost completed to upload my collection. It looks quite a small inventory...

When I started to focus on visualization and chronology of events I realized how many gaps there are and how many stuff I am missing. So there is plenty of work for good many years. I would like to thank cS community for sharing the knowledge about various subjects of my interests. I tried to reflect the messages as closely as possible.

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posted 04-05-2021 11:10 AM               

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I am back to my collection website of Soviet/Russian astrophilately.

FIMYCH.com is alive!

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posted 04-05-2021 11:50 AM               

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Wow! Very impressive website, Efim, with so many ASTP cover issues of all categories, and I love the site artwork graphics as well.

With such a fine collection, Efim, I am honored to see many of my own covers included, even some of my first and early "primitive" rubber stamp cachet covers, along with a few printed ones on the site. But are you sure you want to keep those awkward and/or crudely-done rubber stamp cachet (RSC) covers?

Some of those early RSC versions were produced throughout 1974-75 when I was a teenager trying to first dabble with astrophilately. I liked it so much, that even to this day, it's one of my favorite space collecting topics.

Let me donate a few others to you that I didn't see, for instance, my first printed cachet cover for the U.S. ASTP launch, however, my brother and I did create another primitive b/w printed cachet for the ASTP Saturn 1B rollout in March 1975, which I see that you already have. That rollout issue was my very first printed space cover, more than 45 years ago.

Keep up the great work and I'll be looking forward to your other upcoming space cover categories, I think, mostly Soviet-Russian related.

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posted 04-05-2021 01:03 PM               

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Ken, this is one of the best compliments I've ever received!!

Your covers though simple, are by no means neglectable — they show the important milestones of the project and are must-have in any ASTP cover collection.

Moreover looking at the subject cachet-wise, those are incredibly important as you are one of the "fathers" in this area. Thank you!

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posted 05-21-2023 01:56 AM               

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Thanks Efim.

Good job. Your web is always a must for Soviet/Russian spaceflights.