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E-mail - Telegram Gateway

To foster international cultural exchange and provide a faster and more reliable way of communication for people without Internet or telephone access, we have established this non-profit service.

The usual "snail-mail" sometimes takes 3 weeks or more to reach a Russian addressee from abroad. If you have such problems while sending messages to somebody in Irkutsk or the former Soviet Union, you are welcome to use our E-mail - Telegram Gate.

Our friends about this service
Explanation by the Department of Commerce
How it looks A telegram/teletype machine


To use our service, send an e-mail with the recipient's address and the text of your telegram to root@tugr.irkutsk.su. Your message will be re-sent through the E-mail - Telegram Gate as a usual telegram inside Russia and CIS. According to Russian postal rules, a telegram must be delivered within 6 hours and requires the recipient's signature. In many cases, a telegram is considered an official document.

Registration

Our service is available only for registered users. Please send your registration request to the address below or use this form.

Click here to fill the registration form

Price

The registration and telegram service are free, but you have to cover our expenses for resending, which reflect the prices of Moscow Central Telegraf (1 to 5 US dollars). You will receive a detailed fee list after registration. Incoming telegrams are free.

After registration, you will receive your personal P.O. Box address in Moscow. Feel free to put it on your business card.

Example

Telegram to be received by your correspondent

[Telegram's look]

For Registered Users

Please specify the full postal address of the recipient. If you supply the ZIP code of the city (such as 664033), then your telegram will be processed quicker. Indicate if you want to receive the answer through the Telegram Gate.

Example of a telegram:


   To: root@tugr.irkutsk.su
   Subject: Telegram

   ST PETERSBURG 77 NEVSKIJ PROSPEKT 34 SADKO LTD MR IVANOV

   DEAR MR IVANOV PLEASE SUPPLY THE LIST OF PRODUCTS
   TO PURCHASE ACCORDING TO OUR TELEPHONE TALK OF 12 MAY
   PLEASE REPLY BY TELEGRAM TO ADDRESS 
   207477 OKTET PO BOX 52666 BOLTON
   SINCERELY YOURS = JOHN BOLTON IBM SALES DEPARTMENT

Click here to write and send the telegram

The text of a telegram should not exceed 150 characters (about 3 lines). Longer messages will be charged as 2 telegrams (up to 300 characters). Your message can be in Russian or English. If you use Russian, use KOI8 or write your message in Russian with Latin letters. Russian is preferable to English because telegraph machines with Latin type are rare, potentially delaying your telegram. Indicate if you want your text to be translated to Russian. If your correspondent organization has a teletype code, please supply it in your messages instead of an address.

Confidentiality while re-sending is guaranteed.
Established in October 1995

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9:52PM 9/21/96 Fedor Babanine (root@tugr.irkutsk.su)