I should know this one.

[reynardo]

Here is a wonderful card, sent to me by a lovely lady in Lithuania. Alas, the card is in Russian so neither of us know which volcanic eruption it is.



As far as I can tell, the back of the card says the photo is copyright 1978, so it must be before that. I am ashamed that my volcano-fu isn't picking it. Oh Alas! So if any of you know which one it is, let me know.

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[chaos-crafter.livejournal.com]

If you can scan the Russian, I have a native speaker of russian here.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Alas, no scanner, but the first line looks like this:

MOƜHOe И3BePЖEИe ПePBOГO BYЛKAHA

If I've just unforgiveably insulted his mother, I apologise :-)

[chaos-crafter.livejournal.com]

That apparently says "Massive eruption of first volcano"

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Oh flip - now I'm going to have to transcribe the rest of it!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

MOƜHOe И3BePЖEИe ПePBOГO BYЛKAHA

POЖДEHИW BYЛKAHA

HenpepbIBHbIй, ПpakTйчeckи paBHoMepHbIй BbIHoc oГpoMHoй ПeПЛoBoй tyчи pacƜиpЯЮƜиMcЯ Гa3oM xapaKTepeh ДЛЯ <<ПЛИHИaHckoГo>> TИПa И3BepЖeHИЯ. ПeПЛoBbIй ƜлeйФ PTHPCИЛO BetpoM Ha paccTOЯHИe 800 – 1000 KИЛOMeTpoB.

[fizit.livejournal.com]

or send this to Tyggerjai, who'd love the practice ;)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Excellent idea! Thank you.