The photo on the card is of Cape Kapchik on the Crimean Sea. I wonder if Anna took a trip there and picked it up. Omsk is was founded in 1716 and is the second largest city in Siberia. Omsk was created as a fortress in order to strengthen the trade route to China. During the Second World War, Omsk benefitted from the transfer of many industries because it was so far from the fighting. In fact, Omsk was chosen to be the Soviet capital in the event the Germans won the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941-42.  At the end of the war, Omsk remained a major industrial centre for Soviet military production. The OKMO tank-design bureau, was moved there in 1941, and SM Kirov Factory No 185 was moved there in 1962. T-80 tanks were produced in Omsk from the 1970s, and were also responsible for designing the BTR-T (a Russian heavy infantry vehicle), the TOS-1 (220 mm 30-barrel multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon mounted on a T-72 tank chassis), and the prototype for the Black Eag...

I love looking up hockey information about the cities of the cards I receive. Novosibirsk was introduced to hockey in 1948 by Ivan Tsyba. Within the year two ice rinks were built to accomodate the sudden popularity of the game. The local sports society, Dynamo, established a hockey team soon after. In 1962, Dynamo merged with another team in Novosibirsk - Khimik. The Khimik team, although they played in a lower division than Dynamo had better equipment than Dynamo. The Khimik team was run by a chemical production factory. The newly amalgamated team became known as Sibor Novosibirsk. In 2009-10, it joined the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. In 2015, it was the bronze medal winning team in the Gagarin Cup Playoffs, losing to the eventual champions, Ak Bars Kazan.