Soviet Railway Ticket

Unissued train ticket from around the 1980s. These tickets are much larger than what we're used to handling today and measure 4"x 10.5".  Soviet Railway Ticket This is an unissued Soviet-era railway ticket, dating to roughly the 1980s, from the USSR's state-run rail network, one of the largest in the world at the time. Soviet train tickets were printed considerably larger than the compact tickets most transit systems use today, both to fit the amount of route and fare information required and because ticketing technology of the era simply worked at that scale. Each ticket measures 4" x 10.5", genuinely oversized compared to anything you'd expect to see at a train station now. The Short & Sweet: Genuine unissued Soviet-era railway ticket, circa 1980s Measures 4" x 10.5" From the USSR's state railway system One (1) ticket included ONLY ONE TICKET INCLUDED