FX139

SOVIET UNION

Value

50 Kopeek

Issued by

Bank dlya Vneshney Torgovli SSSR (Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR)

Date

1977 & 1980

Purpose

for use of capitalist passengers on Soviet cruise vessels


 Cruise ship "Shota Rustaveli" (later "Assedo"; built 1968, broken up 2003 in Alang, India)
IMO Nr. 6707753

 
FX139a

1977 & 1980
without serial #


FX139b

1977
with serial #



 
MV "Shota Rustaveli" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1975
(photo taken by Mr. Mike Cornwall, courtesy Mr. Chris Howell, Auckland)
MV "Assedo" (ex "Shota Rustaveli") passing the Dardanelles, 2001

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