Photos of Soviet-Polish border checkpoints in Ukraine in the 1920's and 1930's

[gebhk]

I don't want to teach granny to suck eggs, however it is probably worth being clear about the difference between a border checkpoint (przejscie graniczne) and a KOP guardhouse (straznica). The former is literally the spot on a road where one state ends and another begins - always with an approprate marker and often with some sort of gate or raisable barrier and for the busier, permanently-manned crossings, a shelter for the guard. A guardhouse was nearly always further back from the border and served as the base for the border guard unit(s) that manned that sector of the border. Photographs of the actual border crossings in the east appear to be quite rare, for some reason, while those of guardhouses (perhaps because they were deliberately made very picturesque) abound.

On NAC try 'granica polsko-radziecka' (result 2 pages of pics) or just 'granica' (57 pages).

[gebhk]

I've just had a quick look at the WIG 1930 tactical map of the Korzec area. Searching for pictures of the border crossings it may be useful to seach for Kobyla, Szczytnia, Fajans (a suburb of Korzec), Starokoreckie, Trostyniec amd Poddubce (they were the nearest named places to points where roads crossed the border).