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Yarlik is "label"
Oshinovshik is "tire maker", but could also refer to a packing operator's job title. Unclear.
Kontroler is, well, controller (==QA)
Zak. is short for something that is not obvious to us
1973 r. is of course "the year 1973"
and it's not "r" but "g", short for "god" which is year
"r" would be Polish - "rok", year

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Zak. is short for something that is not obvious to us

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Drink Your Ovaltine

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Google Image Translate says:

LABEL

Official 2

Quality Control 2

Contract 675 - 1973


That's just a rough, literal translation using Google Image Translate. Hopefully someone actually fluent will come along. But I do know two things for sure:

"1973r" is definitely the year 1973. That Cyrillic "r" after a year is actually the Russian letter g, and is the abbreviation for "god" (year). You see it in that same format on all year markings on various military equipment and firearms.

And the Cyrillic "OTK" denotes that it's been certified to be manufactured to military specifications.

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Ошиновщик is a fun word. To be fair I haven't faced it before myself
There are 2 meanings. The tyre mounting worker (шина = tyre), almost not used for half a centurity. It's a separate joob because some trucks and some tyres are.. special, needing special knowlege to put on right. Certain electricity worker, making electric "buses", - context most often used. Again, certain constructions require whole special job with its own education and tools and everything to do that
there's nothing about packing in there, as far as I can tell, but I'm not 100% sure. The word is rare
aha. got it. it's the job title of an ammo packer
https://cs14.pikabu.ru/post_im...8941958166020056.jpg
that's the box (with that label) contents: https://cs14.pikabu.ru/post_im...8943512148360988.jpg
second-level packing, so to say, hence the word шина ("bus" in this context). They first pack stuff into small boxes like on the second photo above; this is called "packing", and the job title says that. And next, those small boxes are put into a larger, usually wooden, box, in batches, or "busses". This is the "bus-packer" who does that. Very specific job
https://youtu.be/-FhPv0yn5IE

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order
эаказ in russian
back in ussr times everything had a number
when one govt entity orders something from other govt entity, non-commercial, in terms of "plan",..
well, whatever. you've got the idea
these numbers don;t mean anything now
but in that context - when you have two entities one ordering stuff from other, these numbers leads to particular workers who did the job, in the end
so if something's wrong, there are actual people to ask for