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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 10/8/2025 1:53 PM
Family Surname: Riskin, Levin
Country: Russia
Town: Baku (Azerbaijan)
Date of Image: 1968

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Attached is the very (!) short page no. 5 of a 6-page letter sent to my great-grandmother Bronya Riskin in the Land of Israel, by her brother Matvey Levin in the Soviet Union. Would like assistance in its translation.

Please note the previous page ends with the following: "Привет от Тоси и Пети. Целую. твой брат." It seems as though the letter reached its end, but there is a short addition that ends with the Levin signature as well. I believe it belongs to the same letter, although I may be mistaken.

Many thanks.

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10/9/2025 12:14 PM

Письмо пока не отправил, пришёл Сима ( возможно производное имя от Семён,Шимон)и говорит, что ходил к профессору Азербайджанскому по фамилии Гусейнов, по кожным заболеваниям, который прописал ему мазь ,сделанную в Югославии в содружестве с Голандией, и что же, неожиданный эффект после первого употребления пропал зуд.А через несколько дней почти бесследно пропали все следы. Не знаю из чего состоит это лекарство, а ведь он спра (справился?)...
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I haven't sent the letter yet, Sima (an abbreviated name, possibly a derivative name from names like Semyon, Shimon) has come and says that he went to an Azerbaijani professor named Huseynov for skin diseases, who prescribed him an ointment made in Yugoslavia in partnership with Holland, and well, the unexpected effect after the first after use, the itching disappeared.And after a few days, almost all traces disappeared. I don't know what this medicine consists of, but he did it...

/Svetlana/

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