Slaviansk Cosmos M2M Vintage Pencil, c. 1979-1987

Slaviansk Cosmos M2M pencil from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, circa 1979-1987. This writing pencil carries the official РСТ УССР 464–79 regulatory marking—the Republican Standard designation that governed Soviet pencil manufacturing until 1987. The factory label documents a production detail: the original 140 mm length has been hand-corrected to 110 mm, reflecting a mid-run adjustment at the Slaviansk Pencil Factory to optimize material usage. The fixed state price of 2 kopecks per unit is printed on the label, a hallmark of Soviet command-economy pricing before the economic transition of the late 1980s. A tangible artifact of Cold War-era industrial standardization and Soviet manufacturing practices.