philatelic help?

[Anne Fisher]

Dear SEELANGers,

I have been asked to help decipher some cancelled Soviet stamps, but  
can't. To me the cancellation stamps look like they say "YALTATAVRG"  
and "CHECHERSKMOGIL" or "CHECHERSKMOGUL". The names of the two towns  
Yalta and Chechersk are clear enough, but what do the continuations  
mean?

Thank you for any leads, and I'd be happy to forward the scans  
themselves to any interested philatelists,

Annie

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- From John Clifford's introduction to a collection of articles  on  
Louise Rosenblatt's seminal Literature as Exploration.
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Anne O. Fisher
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Williams College
Department of German and Russian
995 Main Street, Weston Hall
Williamstown, MA  01267
anne.fisher AT williams.edu
office: 413.597.4723
fax: 413.597.3028
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