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Monday, March 15, 2021

ДОСААФ is for the Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy

Or; DOSSAF is for Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии, Авиации и Флоту! 'Dossaf' was a semi-civilian or paramilitary organisation, technically centrered on sports, but probably best described as a Soviet version of the Hitler Youth (a parallel some Russians will hate me for, but history is history!), membership went a long-way toward your later progression in society or through the 'party'.

Like most State-owned (or in this case 'regime' specific) organs of the Soviet system - as practiced in both Russia and China - they ended up with a few industrial plants, among the output of which were toys and playthings.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
The plant at Odessa being best known [by us collectors'] for their Timpo 'Swoppet' clones, slightly comical for being more African than Eurasian/Amerindian in the old skin-tone . . . have to be careful what I say here (readers in the future will need to reacquaint themselves with the March 2021 appearance of Prince, Duke the posh, his ex-Majesty Harry the Harry-not-Henry, and his missus, on the Oprah Winfrey Show) . . . , but were available in a lovely palate of 'toy' coloured legs and - more importantly from my fandom point of view - bases.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
I also have a number of mixed loose figures (upper shot) while the packaging has a lot in common with the aluminium set we looked at here from Gidromana, being vacuum shrunk-wrapped onto a piece of card.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
Among the loose ones are (or is?) another pair of running legs, giving three types; just off the base (white), leg near-parallel with the plane of the base (green) and a bit of a donkey-kick (pink and yellow), but there are other differences.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
One of them has a separate weapon (top left), you may have noticed some alternate weapons in the second image (a club, a spear, a Barberry pirate's cutlass!), but others differ (top right, rifles) and the base on one is very different, while I have yet to find the figure for the bigger bows (which may be unconnected) and a third rifle also comes as a separate moulding.

This all points to at least three sources of these figures, whether or not they were all Dossaf facilities or some other collective outfit/s is unknown at this time, but as-per those Progress flats we've looked-at before, there would have been duplicate moulds for other sources or other makers . . . and it makes collecting them more fun!

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