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EP record "Tangos Argentinos" (Аргентинские танго) — Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires (MK / Soviet pressing, 33⅓ rpm, Д-004082 / Д-004083)
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A small-format 33⅓ rpm vinyl gramophone record (likely a 25 cm / 10-inch disc) in a paper sleeve, manufactured in the USSR and carrying the blue "МК" label with its stylized bird device. It collects classic Argentine guardia vieja tangos performed by an unnamed "Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires," with bilingual Russian/Spanish credits. Side A (Д-004082): "Don Juan" (música de Ponzio), "Estercita" (E. Delfino), "Unión Cívica" (Santa Cruz), "Rodríguez Peña" (V. Greco). Side B (Д-004083): "Derecho Viejo" (printed "Derero Viejo," V. Greco), "El Nueve de Julio" (Padula), "El Amanecer" (Firpo). The disc label notes "Made in the U.S.S.R.," "33⅓ об. в мин.," the technical spec "ТУ 35," matrix "ХП 558-63," price group ("Третья гр., 0-80"), and a hand-etched runout "Д004082/4-1." One sleeve face reproduces the bilingual track lists over a scenic lake-and-mountains photograph (with the Aprelevka plant's "АЗ" torch emblem); the other is a Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga promotional back listing "Best USSR Variety Orchestras on Soviet Gramophone Records" (Druzhba, the Leningrad and Estonian Radio orchestras, Eddie Rozner, Oleg Lundstrem, the Moscow Variety Theatre and Uzbekistan orchestras).
EP record "Tangos Argentinos" (Аргентинские танго) — Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires (MK / Soviet pressing, 33⅓ rpm, Д-004082 / Д-004083)
EP record "Tangos Argentinos" (Аргентинские танго) — Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires (MK / Soviet pressing, 33⅓ rpm, Д-004082 / Д-004083) - Image 2
EP record "Tangos Argentinos" (Аргентинские танго) — Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires (MK / Soviet pressing, 33⅓ rpm, Д-004082 / Д-004083) - Image 3
2025.1.285
In other countries, Melodiya recordings imported from the USSR were often sold under the label MK, which stood for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (Международная книга), the state agency that held a monopoly over the export of music records during the Soviet era. The fully Spanish track listing — "Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires," "música de…," "(Argentina)" — shows the disc was packaged specifically for Spanish-speaking export markets. What makes the object especially telling is that the USSR is here exporting Latin American music to Latin America: classic Argentine tango, pressed at Aprelevka, sold to Cuba. The Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga back cover, advertising Soviet estrada (variety/jazz) orchestras to foreign buyers, frames the record within the USSR's broader cultural-export and soft-power project.
33 RPM Record
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Conjunto instrumental de Buenos Aires
Band
Aprelevka Record Factory
tangos
1963
U.S.S.R.
Argentina
Eastern Europe
Europe
South America
Spanish
The cover shows an ocean landscape set in front of mountainous terrain, with clouds covering the mountaintops in the background and two rocks framing the mountain as a focal point.
Manufactured (pressed) at the Aprelevka Record Factory, Aprelevka (Moscow Oblast), USSR — identified by the "АЗ" torch emblem — and exported via Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, Moscow. The performance is credited to a Buenos Aires ensemble, so the musical recording is presumptively Buenos Aires, Argentina; whether the master is a licensed Argentine recording or a Soviet studio recording billed as a Buenos Aires group is not yet confirmed. Dating: the matrix "ХП 558-63" indicates a 1963 master/order, consistent with the pre-Melodiya "МК" export imprint (Melodiya was established in 1964). Best dated c. 1963.
Don Juan
Ernesto Poncio
Composer
Estercita
E. Delfino
Composer
Unión Cívica
Santa Cruz
Composer
Rodríguez Peña
V. Greco
Composer
Derero Viejo
V. Greco
Composer
El nueve de julio
José Luis Padula
Composer
El amanecer
Roberto Firpo
Composer
Inscription
Back cover
НА СОВЕТСКИХ ГРАМПЛАСТИНКАХ ЛУЧШИЕ ЭСТРАДНЫЕ ОРКЕСТРЫ СССР д 007081-82 Молодежный эстрадный ансамбль «Дружба» д 008043-44 Эстрадный оркестр градского радио д 007179-80 эстрадный оркестр п/у 3. Рознера д 007213-14 Эстрадный оркестр Эстонского радио д 5794-95 Оркестр п/у О. Лундстрема д 005806-07 Оркестр Московского театра Эстрады д 6865-66 Эстрадный оркестр Узбеки стана BEST USSR VARIETY ORCHESTRAS ON SOVIET GRAMOPHONE RECORDS D 007081-82 "Druzhba," Youth Variety Ensemble D 008043-44 Leningrad Radio Variety Orchestra D 007179-80 Variety Orchestra conducted by E. Roznor D 007213-14 Estonian Radio Variety Orchestra D 5794-95 Orchestra conducted by O. Lundstrem D 005806-07 Moscow Variety Theatre Orchestra D 6865-66 Uzbekistan Variety Orchestra
Russian
BEST USSR VARIETY ORCHESTRAS ON SOVIET GRAMOPHONE RECORDS D 007081-82 "Druzhba," Youth Variety Ensemble D 008043-44 Leningrad Radio Variety Orchestra D 007179-80 Variety Orchestra conducted by E. Roznor D 007213-14 Estonian Radio Variety Orchestra D 5794-95 Orchestra conducted by O. Lundstrem D 005806-07 Moscow Variety Theatre Orchestra D 6865-66 Uzbekistan Variety Orchestra BEST USSR VARIETY ORCHESTRAS ON SOVIET GRAMOPHONE RECORDS D 007081-82 "Druzhba," Youth Variety Ensemble D 008043-44 Leningrad Radio Variety Orchestra D 007179-80 Variety Orchestra conducted by E. Roznor D 007213-14 Estonian Radio Variety Orchestra D 5794-95 Orchestra conducted by O. Lundstrem D 005806-07 Moscow Variety Theater Orchestra D 6865-66 Uzbekistan Variety Orchestra
Printed
21 cm
21 cm
vinyl, record case
Case
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Aprelevka
Moscow Oblast
Eastern Europe
U.S.S.R.
Europe
Production
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Acquisition
Argentina
South America
music recorded
Sources consulted: Wikipedia for the MK/Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga export label and for the Aprelevka Record Factory (Moscow Oblast; main Soviet pressing plant; merged into Melodiya in 1964).
"Derero Viejo" is a sleeve misprint for "Derecho Viejo"; note also that "Derecho Viejo" is usually credited to Eduardo Arolas rather than V. Greco, so the Soviet sleeve's composer attributions should be treated cautiously. Composer surnames appear in Russianized/abbreviated form (Ponzio, Delfino, Padula, Firpo).