№ 274-279. History of Russian Trams.

St.Petersburg is the world tram capital. It was in 1880 that F.A.Pirotskiy built a carriage with the hanging dc motor. The background shows buildings adjacent to the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg.

Nizhniy Novgorod is one of Russian tram capitals, as the first regular exploitation of the tram-line started in this very town in 1896. The background shows Minin and Pozharsky Square in Nizhniy Novgorod and the walls and towers of the Nizhnii Novgorod's Kremlin.

The ceremony of opening the tram-line between Butyrskaya zastava and Petrovskiy Park along Nizhnyaya and Verkhnyaya Maslovka was held in 1899. The background shows the Bolshoi Theatre and the Central Shopping Mall in Moscow.

The first tram-lines in Ekaterinburg were opened in 1930.The background shows the centre of Ekaterinburg, with the Opera and Ballet Theatre on the right.

The tram-lines in St.Petersburg were made not in the street but on the Neva ice in winter of 1895-1896. The tram-lines led from the Dvortsoviy Bridge to Mytninskaya embankment. The background shows the Stock Exchange at the Vassilyev Island in St. Petersburg.

The margins of the souvenir sheet show the Moscow Kremlin as viewed from the Great Stone bridge and the text reads "The 100th anniversary of Russian Trams".