POSTCARD N.48 -  Russia
Postcrossing postcard sent on the 23rd October; received on the 10th November
Postcard image: citing the legend on the card itself "The East Messoyakha field is the northernmost of the developing onshore oilfields in Russia"
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Inside lovely cover # 51 was this postcard issued by Gasprom and Rosneft, the two Russian giants of oil and gas, showing the general swampy landscape aspect of the area where the norterhnmost oilfields of Russia are located. Victoria, sent me the card from the city of Tyumen, the first settlement established in Siberia, and today's main city and administrative centre of the Tyumen Oblast.

Since the 60's decade of the XX century, the region's economy has been deeply rooted in gas and oil extraction, the main vector of Tyumen's development.

Victoria has also included another postcard in her nice envelope, with an image of a monument dedicated to Marx and Engels in the city of  Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, that borders Finland. This monument still stands on its feet in spite of the downfall of the communist regime,  as I was able to conclude while trying to identify it on the internet.