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Сестрорецк [Sestroretsk] Scratchbuild scale 1/64 Russ. torpedo boat 1894

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Hello friends, I didn't expect such monster waves in this discussion - thanks for your intensety. As I am at the very beginning of learning modern Russian language I will take the advice telling me, it is grammatically correct - just because due to this it is a letter too much if wrong, but not a missing letter if it is right. That's my simple logic behind this, because I can not tell who of you both is right - both arguments sound logical to me so I do choose "the path with less possible error".

I also do have to redo the one letter the uppest "flag" is going into the wrong direction:

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The top dash hast to show towards the left not the right - making it even broder in size.
So I will work in this to get it right and then I do have to undo the Cyrillic side of my stand to press two dot five additional letters into the very same space :oops:

We will see.
 
This isn't modern language. These are old spelling rules that existed before the 1918 reform. 99.9% of modern Russians don't know them, as our discussion demonstrates. Regarding the spelling of the word "Sestroretsk"—without going into grammatical subtleties—I showed a scan from an encyclopedic dictionary of that era, where it is written according to the rules of the time. This eliminates any doubt. In the examples my opponent showed, the letter "Ѣ" is missing precisely because it's not needed there according to grammatical rules, and in no other way. Assumptions that the word was spelled one way in the dictionary and differently on board the ship are complete nonsense.

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Есть же фото реального корабля с названием, чего изобретать?
There is a photo of a real ship with a name, why invent it?

As for spelling, you can easily use the German Wikipedia on the topic of pre-reform spelling.

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