Children's Railways of the former USSR – Past and Present

The invitation card on opening of Small October Railway (Leningrad). 1948
(The ticket in the folded state)

The ticket is made of ordinary paper. It consists of two main parts, one normally folded over the other, and a small stub folded between the ends of the other two.
Size unfolded: 27.5 x 6 cm (Size in the folded state: 12.7 x 6 cm)
(from Ivan Andreev's collection)

The invitation card on opening of Small October Railway (Leningrad). 1948
(The ticket in the unfolded state)

The ticket is made of ordinary paper. It consists of two parts, one normally folded over the other.
Size unfolded: 27.5 x 6 cm (Size in the folded state: 12.7 x 6 cm)
(from Ivan Andreev's collection)

Front and rear of a free-of-charge service ticket for 8 trips by Small October Railway (Leningrad). End of 1940s.

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 7x15 cm.
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

 

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1960

The ticket is made of dense cardboard 1 mm thick.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Zheltov's collection)

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1960

The ticket is made of dense cardboard 1 mm thick.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Oleg Voluznev's collection)

 

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1962

The ticket is made of dense cardboard 1 mm thick.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Kurbanov's collection)

Front of a ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1964

The ticket is made of dense cardboard 1 mm thick.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Kurbanov's collection)

Front of a adult's ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1991

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

Front of a children's ticket for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 1999

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

 

Front of a two tickets for travel by the Small October Railway (St.Peterburg). 2003

The ticket is made of a ordinary roll paper.
Size 3.3x4.7 cm
(from Pavel Zheltov's collection)

  

Front and rear of a ticket for travel by the Kratovo ChRW. 1978

The ticket is made of dense cardboard 1 mm thick.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Dmitry Sutyagin's collection)

Front of a children's ticket for travel by the Kharkov ChRW. 1982

The ticket is made of a dense cardboard by thickness of 1 mm.
The hole in the centre enables sets of tickets to be strung on a cord.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Dmitry Sutyagin's collection)

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Yaroslavl ChRW. 1987
The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Orenburg ChRW. 1999
The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Rostov ChRW. 1990s

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Pavel Strelkov's collection)

Front of a ticket for travel by the Minsk ChRW. 1999

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm

Front and rear of a ticket for travel by the Tashkent ChRW.

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Ildar Basyrov's collection)

Front and rear of a children's ticket for travel by the Tashkent ChRW.

The ticket is made of a dense paper.
Size: 3.2x6 cm
(from Ildar Basyrov's collection)

Front of a ticket for travel by the Liski ChRW. 1999
The ticket is made of ordinary paper.
Size: 12x7 cm.
(from Timas Adamaitis's collection)

Front of a adult's ticket for travel by the Novomoskovsk ChRW. 2000

The ticket is printed on a thermosensitive paper.
Size: 4x5 cm
(from Edward Grachev's collection)

Front of a ticket for travel by the Baku ChRW. 2003

The ticket is printed on a glossy paper.
Rear of ticket is blank.
Size: 7.6x5 cm
(from Elmar Aliev's collection)

The adult's ticket for visiting to the winter garden of the Zaporozhye ChRW. 2002
(The control coupon is torn off.)

The ticket is made of ordinary paper.
Size: 7.5x8 cm (without control coupon)
(from Dmitry Sutyagin's collection)