1930s Soviet Internal Passport, Georgian SSR, Moscow Registered

A Soviet internal passport issued to Петр Виссарионович Шенгелидзе, born November 23, 1909 in the village of Khorki, Dusheti district, Georgian SSR. Nationality listed as Georgian, social status as employee, military obligation noted. Serial number ЖЛ No. 986082. The propiska pages document temporary registrations in Moscow through the Otdelenie R.I. Militsii, with stamps spanning the mid-1930s. The cover bears the USSR state emblem and lists "Passport" in six languages including Georgian and Armenian script alongside Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian — the standard multilingual format introduced with the 1932 internal passport system.

Stalin introduced internal passports in December 1932, creating a system of population control that would define Soviet life for decades. A Georgian man registered temporarily in Moscow in the 1930s was navigating a surveillance state at the height of its paranoia — every stamp in this booklet was a bureaucratic record of where he was permitted to be.

Fair to good vintage condition. Cover shows heavy wear and soiling. Interior pages intact with clear handwritten entries and stamps throughout.