[78-L] Soviet Dating Chart (was: Date needed, will settle for the decade)

[Michael Biel]

  On the off chance I could find a Soviet record dating chart faster on 
the internet than pulling out the books, I found a couple of web pages 
with a little more info than I have in the books and journals, such as 
the Flexi (Gebke) chart.

This is a fairly good description of what you will find on the records.

http://www.medtner.org.uk/melodiya.html

It links to http://rockdisco.narod.ru/Labels/M/Melody/index.htm  which 
gives the chart for 78s, mono microgroove, stereo microgroove, and 
flexis.  It also links to  
http://www.pnprecords.spb.ru/vynil-labels/index.phtml  which shows the 
mono and stereo microgroove starting with the stereo era thru to the end 
of this numbering system in 1991,  It does not include the R series that 
followed, nor the A series of Digital masters.  Neither chart mentions 
that there were about 60 stereo matrices issued in the mono numbering 
system in 1960-61 prior to starting the separate stereo series at 101.  
It also does not mention that there were manufacturing standards 
GOST-5289 in 1950 and 1956 before the one theymention for 1961.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 8/23/2010 10:57 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    On 8/23/2010 7:33 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Can anyone date MK D011501/6, Anton Rubinstein's "THE DEMON"? Bolshoi company
>> conducted by Melik-Pashayev. It's not in the CLOR opera discography and this one
>> http://www.durbeckarchive.com/melodiya.htm
>> lists it but doesn't give a date.
>>
>> dl
> Are you looking for a recording date or an issue date.  This set would
> have been issued in 1962.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com