U.R.S.S.
The Russian Labels
Melody
MELODYA was the only Soviet label that existed around 1988/90.
And the letter "C", on the other hand, meant analog stereo (CTEPEO) recording.
The logo above the Melody is the original one, with the house symbol on the left (with a large "M") and the name written in Cyrillic.
At the time, the Melody had 10 printing works in the entire Russian territory.
Two were in Moscow: one in Moscow, in a suburb called Gramzapis, and the other in Aprelevka, just west of Moscow, the latter being the largest printing house in all of Russia.
The other eight printing works were in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Kiev (Ukraine), Tallinn (Estonia), Vilnus (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), and in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) (now Almaty); later the Novosibirsk (Siberia) and Yerevan (Armenia) plants were also incorporated.
Source from Italian Site
ANTROP 1992
Antrop
ANTROP (many times crippled in Anfon, Anson, or Anton) was named after the legendary Russian underground producer and sound engineer, Andrey Tropillo, in 1990, on the wave of "perestroika", became the head of the branch of Melody a St. Petersburg. Until then there was so much confusion in Russia, and he founded the independent branch in St. Petersburg and started making a series of classic rock albums. These editions weren't that legal.
It started with The Beatles, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and even Pink Floyd. All of these records were made using Melodia machinery, but AnTrop was already operational and independent and therefore put its own logo and catalog numbers, and various copyrights on the covers.
At the same time, until the records were also printed under the label of the Melodia and with its machinery, AnTrop also put the additional catalog number of the Melodia (that's why we can find two catalog numbers in the AnTrop editions).
Antrop is the label that released almost all of Floyd's albums in Russia. The letter "P", present in the AnTrop catalog number, is none other than the Russian letter "P" of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It should be noted that all AnTrop records were printed at the Melodia factories in Aprelevka, just west of Moscow.
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