Russian ISS cosmonauts

     Those postcards were in my wishlist for very long, apparently they are part of some set with all cosmonauts from certain Expedition on ISS: right is Fyodor Yurchikhin. twice ISS Commander, left is Oleg Kononenko, apparently they didn't have any missions together, so it must be set with various cosmonauts [others from similar set are: RU-3915279, Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut; RU-1177789, someone Japanese; RU-1102608, Soyuz-Apollo mission; RU-1028923, US astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson; RU-1230892, another Japanese cosmonaut, seem like Naoko Yamazaki; RU-1031912, Sandra Magnus, American astronaut; there are similar cards from Germany and USA: DE-2433575, first German cosmonaut, DDR; DE-1724943; US-789692, first US astronaut; and, of course, Belorussian postcard - BY-194624, Cathy K. Katz, famous Kotovian cosmonaut].

both received from nadin_ivolga, Russia (direct swap and Favorites 198)

     Each ISS Expedition had besides all official photos a parody movie poster made by NASA [whole collection can be see on NASA site here]. And the last thing about those postcards were the short space-themed poems on the back of each postcard: first one contents first part, and second - second part from song by Arkady Khait:

"Above the Earth during late night,

 You can put out your hand

 And you can seize the stars,

 They seem so close.

 You can take a Peacock's feather,

 Touch the arms of the Clock,

 Go for a spin on Dolphin,

 Go on the swings of Libra.

 Above the Earth during late night,

 If you shoot a look in skies,

 You will see that, like grape wines,

 Star constellations are hanging there,

 You can put your hand out

 And you can seize the stars,

 They seem so close."