2. С новым годом! "Happy New Year!" in Russian. This card, featuring a boy with a matching outfit, peace doves and a science book, was published and mailed in 1962. The cursive handwriting on the back is lovely and is shown in the second photo below.
3. з новим роком! "Happy New Year!" in Ukrainian. This card, featuring adorable Ded Moroz and bear figures alongside a pastel-colored rocket in a cottonball forest, was published in 1979.
4. С новым годом! "Happy New Year!" in Russian. This card, featuring a letter-delivering young cosmonaut in a rocket ship with a Christmas tree and bunny rabbit, was published in 1981, the year before Samantha Smith's letter to Yuri Andropov.
You're missing the "B" character (pronounced like a "v") in the middle word of your Russian translation of "Happy new year!" in items #1, #2, and #4 above.
ReplyDeleteYour Ukrainian expression in #3 is fine.
-- M.F.