Can anyone read russian?

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Don't know but its kind of cool..
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It's very cool, I wish I could be more of a help.. Have you tried google translate??
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There are some guys on here that can read it. Just let em find it and the mystery will be solved. That is so cool by the way. Never have seen this before.
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Well, I can't read Russian but what you wrote on the envelope looks upside-down. ;mywink;
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bunkysdad wrote:There are some guys on here that can read it. Just let em find it and the mystery will be solved. That is so cool by the way. Never have seen this before.
Forum member White Horseradish can read & speak fluent Russian but he hasn't been on here for some time. :wink:
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Head Wound wrote:Well, I can't read Russian but what you wrote on the envelope looks upside-down. ;mywink;
I didn't make an issue of it since I can't read it anyway. :lol:
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............not too sure this early on SUPERBOWL SUNDAY, but..............I think that is Klingon.......... :brolleyes:
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I hope it isn't some Russian curse put there by some radical Russian witchdoctor!
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I think the first number is a 2, not a 9.. But either way, the first five characters are a number of some sort and I have no idea what they mean. Maybe enlistment numbers? The rest of it reads ТАРАСОВ. Pronounced Tarasov.. It's a Russian last name derived from a fairly common first name. Kinda like Johnson is derived from John..
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cooprider wrote:That's interesting. So that letter I is probably a T. The area where that was written is large enough to where the cleaning rod doesn't fit properly. I wonder if there was more there and it wasn't just scraped out when it was refurbished.
I think so.. we don't have a letter I in the Russian alphabet, and I don't think it's the number 1.. Looks like your rifle belonged to a Comrade Tarasov at some point..
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I think the first four characters are 9.5.45 - which in European date format for May 9, 1945, Russian Victory Day.

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I think it say SELL TO SOME GUY IN IOWA for a $1 lol

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