iamrushman
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very interesting information...thanks for sharing and your hard work.
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Note the date 1963. "МОСГСНХ" appears to stand for "Московский Губернский Совет Народного Хозяйства", which means "Moscow Provincial Council of National Economy".
Thank you, iamrushman, for the thumbs-up, and I'm very grateful to you, dmaziuk, for the correction of what "МОСГСНХ" stands for. My source for "Московский Губернский Совет Народного Хозяйства" was Ф12 and now I see that it refers to the year 1920, so the early days of the revolution. When I Googled the whole phrase again, I got a few hundred results, all referring to the first two decades of the twentieth century. When I tried "Московский Городской Совет Народного Хозяйства", the results were in the thousands and with a much later chronology, confirming your thesis that "Городской" (city, urban, municipal) fitted the political and historical context best. Please keep correcting me - I am learning so much in the process.
The only thing that still puzzles me is the logo underneath "МОСГСНХ":
It looks like the second letter of the Cyrillic alphabet (Б) on top of a "К" with water underneath it. I wondered what that all represents...
Not a clue, but Moscow City Council on National Economy is a sovnarkhoz (Russian wiki page on that is way more useful) which is a governing rather than manufacturing organization. So it could be a factory logo -- so why would SanHygiene use "BK" is beyond me too.