Triangle Letter How-To Master class in Mendeleyevsk

Several master classed on making triangle letters that used to be sent home by Russian soldiers duringthe Great Patriotic war were held last week for clients of the Complex Social Service Centre in Mendeleyevsk municipal district. The events were coincided with the 72nd Anniversary of the Great Patriotic war.

Without access to envelopes and postcards, the soldiers folded up triangular letters that were their own package–”letter and envelope in one.” The folded format was necessary since mail needed to be reviewed by censors and couldn’t be sealed.