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I have two records on the USSR label to go with my Russian HMV102 lookalike portable, but I don't read Russian. I played the records this afternoon and think that :

10814 is a bass with orchestra singing what sounds like an operatic aria.

10815 is a soprano and also sounds operatic.

12719/12720 is a bass-baritone with chorus singing what sounds like folk songs.

The resolution on the labels is poor, especially on 10814, but any help with translation would be much appreciated.

Roger.

I'm not an expert in russian but firs is King Rene aria, I cant see whats below the title
It will take me some time but I will translate the rest

The blue disc is 2 selections from Tchaikovsky's last opera "Iolanta".

the blue record are fragments of Tchaikovskys Iolanta name below 1815 is G. Zhukovskaya
below record of A. Swieshnikova with soviet national songs "proviediemtie druzya" whitch means "lead your friend" and "shto, vhy drugi samltsali" and that means "why are you silent friends?"
Hope I have helped well

I've translated Russian records myself by going to Google Translate. When you select Russian, you can type in Russian and see the translation on the right. It's kind of hard because you have to select the right letter, and other letters look similar. You have to pick the capital or the lower case alphabet, and sometimes you have to select handwriting.

Thank you gentlemen for all your help. What knowledge we have on this forum!

Roger.

I use to have an app on my phone that utilized the phone's camera and would translate text in real-time. If I remember correctly it did't translate perfectly but you could figure out what it was trying to say.