A USSR border marker is basically the same, only the colours are red
and green, and bears the coat-of-arms of the Soviet Union. The russian
border marker has the same colours, but of course the coat-of-arms of
Russia. So I think that lots of Ukrainian markers where just painted
over and had the Soviet coat-of-arms removed (and replaced with the
Ukrainian one).
Some illustrations (not very good ones) that I could find:
http://www.kolsky.ru/index.html?art=33
http://news.khb.ru/news.php3?news=2581
http://news.khb.ru/print.php3?news=3154
Maybe someone else has a really good picture of a Russian marker.

For those who read Russian: a description of a border marker can be
found in the boundary treaty between the Soviet Union and North Korea
at http://asiatimes.narod.ru/docum/nkorea/gg1.htm (Part 1, par. 2,
section 2). Interesting here is also that a "boundary marker"
(pogranicnyj znak; caron on c) is defined as to consist of two
"boundary posts" (pogranicnyj stolb; caron on c), one of each country,
bearing the same number. Now this is nothing strange for a river
boundary (as is the case here), but this is also done for land
boundaries. I wonder what the normal distance is between the two parts
of the marker.

Peter S.

--- Doug Murray Productions <doug@...> wrote:

>
> I've been searching for a picture of a USSR border marker, with no
> luck. Does anyone know where I might find one?
>
> While one the GEEBE, I noticed that some Ukraine border markers were
> really old soviet ones, simply painted over... the blue and yellow of
> Ukraine was flaking away revealing red. Also, there was a depression
> and screw holes where something (I assume a CCCP emblem of some sort)
> was mounted. See attached picture for a bit of detail.
>
> So... where can I find a USSR border marker picture??
>
> Cheers!
>
> Doug
>
>
>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=sk-ua-detail.jpg

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