POSTAL HISTORY: 1936 commercial registered cover to Germany with 10k & 20k x6 tied to the reverse by Cyrillic cds of Ufa, on the face Cyrillic R cachet of Ufa & Roman R cachet with mss "Oufa", two strikes of the rare boxed 'Recu au bureau de poste/a Moscou en etat endommage' h/s in French (= Received at the Post Office in Moscow in damaged condition), repaired at the top with plain white wafer tied by German 'Amtlich verschlossen/Zeuge [signature]' h/s (= Officially sealed/Witness...'), minor blemishes. Fascinating. [Ufa is the capital of Bashkortostan between the Volga River & Ural Mountains]