FREE PAGE DOWNLOAD PDFs This PDF download: these are watermarked samples from my own design stamp album pages, albeit some at much lower resolution quality in order to keep internet download file size down. You may be able to glean a few design ideas from these, not that I am suggesting they are a masterpiece! Legal warning: no part or captured image/s of these pages and/or page designs can be used commercially, given away, or sold on without first obtaining my written permission.
Software options I used an old version of QuarkXPress Passport (version 7.3 from my publishing days) to do all the page layout work (with its brilliant page element library) but other alternatives are Adobe InDesign, CorelDRAW and perhaps MS Publisher. You might also want to take a look at AlbumGen (stamp album design software) which can combine with images and data from EzStamp – follow this link https://ezstamp.com/software/stamp-album-software/
Get your pages printed professionally – not on a home printer. In terms of printing your own stamp album pages, most decent digital print shops should be able to print on larger paper size for you (e.g. A3 paper - ideally at 1200 dpi); then also guillotine to whatever final page size is wanted; and then punch/drill holes to suit your binder choice.
Paper specification In terms of paper, I highly recommend Mondi Colorcopy 160g/m2 (59 lbs bond) paper – a paper that works really well with digital printing. You could use thicker paper if you wanted. Colorcopy paper is widely available in various paper sizes including A3. This is 100% recyclable, ECF, FSC™ paper containing pulp from tree farms; has a special surface treatment, is non-toxic, CO2 neutral, carries the EU Ecolabel, and is ageing resistance ISO 9706 certified (guaranteed archival life of 200+ yrs). If this is not available to you, then ask your local paper merchant to suggest the nearest paper equivalent.
Fixing stamps I have fixed my own stamps using CLEAR Hawid open-top stamp mounts but other options include Showgard mounts or even decent “peelable” stamp hinges with used stamps.
If you have any questions regarding my own non-watermarked pages or page design, my contact details are below - best to email if you can.
David Farndale Tel: 07775 744 187; +44 7775 744 187 (UK time 10:00 to 17:00) email: [email protected] web: www.ruskystamps.com
- RUSSIAN STAMPS FOR SALE - I am gradually selling off all my duplicated Russian stamps 1858-1991. I am not a “dealer”, but as I occasionally buy up collections to help fill gaps in my own collection, more duplicates become available – it’s a ‘dynamic’ situation. I usually sell these (Buy-it-Now and Auction) through my eBay account www.ebay.co.uk/usr/ruskystamps but I do also have collectors that send me their “Wants Lists” from time to time – especially to help fill low value stamp gaps. Please request a Wants List template if this is of interest to you.
Occasional bargains and estate sales items are sold through my other eBay channel: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/ser*e*ndipity SAMPLERussia
Stamp Album Volume 3 USSR Soviet Period 1923 - 1959
Currency: 100 Kopeks = 1 Rouble Watermarks Watermarks are illustrated below with variations indicated by (1), (2), (3); a, b, c, d variants etc.
W#2(1)SAMPLEW#2(2) W#2(3) W#7(a) W#7(b)
W#44(a) W#44(b) W#50(a) W#50(b) W#50(c) W#50(d)
W#103(a) W#103(b) W#161 SG1606 W#2071 USSR
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The USSR as first constituted consisted of the RSFSR, the Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR.) of Ukraine and Belorussia and the Transcaucasian Federation. In October 1924 the Uzbek and Turkmen SSR.s and in December 1929 the Tajik Autonomous SSR. were declared constituent republics. A new constitution was adopted on December 1936, by which the Transcaucasian Republic was split into the constituent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia; the Kazakh and Kirghiz autonomous republics of the RSFSR also became constituent republics of the USSR. The Union thus at that point consisted of eleven republics. In 1940 a further five republics were added including the former independent states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 1956 the Karelo-Finnish Republic became an autonomous republic of the RSFSR, reducing the constituent republics of the USSR to 15.
1923 Agricultural Exhibition, Moscow
SAMPLE 1923 328 89 7r. imperf
Reaper Sower Tractor Exhibition
1923 1923 P12.5 P12.5 328a 86 329 87 1923 1r. 2r. P12.5 330 88 5r.
1923 1923 P13.5 P13.5 332 86 1923 334 89 1923 1r. P13.5 7r. P14 x 14.5 333 88 334b 88 5r. 5r.
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1923-25 Definitives Imperf. T90, 93, 95 Worker; T91 Peasant; T92, 94 Soldier
1923-24 Imperf Litho 341 92 10k. SAMPLE
1924 1924 1924 Imperf Imperf Imperf Typo Typo Typo 345 91 347 90 347a 91 2k. 4k. 6k.
1924 Imperf Typo 351b 90 20k.
1924 1924 1925 Imperf Imperf Imperf Typo Typo Typo 354 91 354a 92 357 95 50k. 1r. 5r.
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1924-25 Definitives T90, 93, 95 Worker; T91 Peasant; T92, 94 Soldier
1924-25 1924-25 1924 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 Typo Typo Typo 358 90 359 91 360 92 1k. 2k. 3k. SAMPLE 1924 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo 361 90 362 90 363 91 364 92 365 90 366 91 367 92 4k. 5k. 6k. 7k. 8k. 9k. 10k.
1925 1924-25 1924 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 Typo Typo Typo 368 90 370 90 371 91 14k. 20k. 30k.
1924 1924 1924-25 1924-25 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 Typo Typo Typo Typo 372 92 373 91 374 92 375 93 40k. 50k. 1r. 2r.
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1924-25 Definitives T90, 93, 95 Worker; T91 Peasant; T92, 94 Soldier
1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 P12 P12 P12 Typo Typo Typo 376 90 377 91 378 92 1k. 2k. 3k.
1924-25 SAMPLE1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo 379 90 380 90 381 92 382 90 383 91 384 92 385 90 4k. 5k. 7k. 8k. 9k. 10k. 14k.
1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 1924-25 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo Typo 386 91 387 92 388 91 389 92 390 91 391 92 15k. 20k. 30k. 40k. 50k. 1r.
1924 1924-25 1924-25 P13.5 P13.5 x 10 P10 Typo Typo Typo 392 94 394 94 396 95 3r. 3r. 5r.
1924 1924 1924 1924 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 P14 x 14.5 Litho Litho Litho Litho 397 90 398 92 399 91 400 92 4k. 10k. 30k. 40k.
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1923 Obligatory Tax Exchange Control Stamps (Insurance stamps surcharged)
SAMPLE
1924-25 Postage Due Stamps
1924 1924 1924 1925 P13.5 P13.5 P13.5 P13.5 D401 45 D402 45 D403 45 D404 45 1k on 35k. 3k on 35k. 5k on 35k. 8k on 35k.
1924 1925 1924 P13.5 P13.5 P13.5 D405 45 D407 45 D408 45 10k on 35k. 14k on 35k. 32k on 35k.
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1924 Lenin Mourning Issue (Some were reissued in 1925-28 on 22 January, the anniversary of Lenin’s death)
1924 Imperf. 402 96 6k. Red Frame SAMPLE20 x 25
1924 1924 Imperf. Imperf. 407 96 408 96 12k. 20k. Red Frame Red Frame 21 x 26.5 21 x 26.5
1924 1924 Imperf. Imperf. 409 96 3k. 412 96 20k. Red Frame Red Frame 20.5 x 26 20.5 x 26 bright shiny bright shiny colours colours
1924 1924 P13.5 P13.5 414 96 6k. 415 96 12k. Red Frame Red Frame 20.5 x 26 20.5 x 26 bright shiny bright shiny colours colours
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1924 AIR Surcharge Intended for use in 1923, but the air service was suspended for the winter before delivery took place. By the following year the stabilisation of the currency necessitated the surcharge. Fokker FIII aeroplane.
1924 1924 1924 Imperf. Imperf. Imperf. 418 97 419 97 420 97 SAMPLE10k. on 5r. 15k. on 1r. 20k. on 10r.
1924 Imperf. 97 3r. no surcharge unofficial
1924 Postage Due D421 48 1k. on 100r.
1924 Leningrad Flood Relief For the victims of the flood in Leningrad
1924 1924 Imperf. Imperf. 421 48 423 48 3+10k. 14+30k. on 100r. on 300r.
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1925 Obligatory Tax Exchange Control Stamps (Surcharged war charity stamps of 1914)
1925 1925 P13.5 P11.5 T426 31 T427 31 SAMPLE5k. on 1k. 10k. on 3k.
1925 1925 P13.5 P11.5 T429 31 T430 31 25k. on 7k. 50k. on 1k.
1925 1st Anniversary of Lenin’s Death Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow
1925 Imperf. 429 102 40k.
1925 1925 1925 P13 x 13.5 P13 x 13.5 P13 x 13.5 426 102 427 102 428 102 7k. 14k. 20k.
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1925 Definitives T90, 93, 95 Worker; T91 Peasant; T92, 94 Soldier Watermarked W103
1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 431 91 432 92 433 90 434 90 435 91 436 92 2k. 3k. 4k. 5k. 6k. 7k. SAMPLE
1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 437 90 438 91 439 92 440 90 441 91 442 92 443 90 8k. 9k. 10k. 14k. 15k. 18k. 20k.
1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 P12 P12 P12 P12 P12 444 91 445 92 44 91 447 92 448 93 30k. 40k. 50k. 1r. 2r.
1925 1925 P13.5 P13.5 449 94 450 95 3r. 5r.
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1925 Postage Due Stamps (Postage Due stamps were abolished from 1 February 1926. Any used as ordinary stamps was unauthorised)
1925 P12 Litho D452 D104 2k. SAMPLE
1925 1925 1925 P12 Typo P12 Typo P12 Typo D458 D104 D460 D104 D461 D104 1k. 3k. 7k.
1925 P12 Litho W103 D465 D104 2k.
1925 1925 1925 1925 P12 Typo W103 P12 Typo W103 P12 Typo W103 P12 Typo W103 D466 D104 D468 D104 D469 D104 D470 D104 3k. 8k. 10k. 14k.
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1925-28 Lenin (Many other watermark and perforation variations exist)
1926 P10.5 W103 451 104 1r. SAMPLE
1925 Bicentenary of Academy of Sciences
Prof. Lomonosov and Academy of Sciences, Leningrad
The Academy of Sciences was officially opened in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) on 27 December 1725 and initially divid- ed into three classes or departments: the first class included mathematics, astronomy, geography, and navigation; the second class - physics, anatomy, chemistry, and botany; and the third class - rhetoric, antiquities, history, and law. The staff comprised of 11 professors and several assistants. The Academy of Sciences had a library, Kunstkammer Museum, observatory, physics laboratory, chemical laboratory founded by M. V. Lomonosov in 1748, dissecting room, art class- es, workshops, and Academic Printing House in the 18th century.
1925 30th Anniversary of Popov’s Radio Discoveries
1925 P13.5 W103 458 107 7k.
Prof. A. S. Popov 1859-1905
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1925 20th Anniversary of 1905 Rebellion
1925 1925 P13.5 P13.5 W103 W103 461 109 460 108 7k. 3k. Moscow Barricade
1925 P13.5 W103 Postal Rioters Orator and Crowd Orator and Crowd Postal Rioters SAMPLE462 110 14k.
1925 Centenary of Decembrist Uprising
1925 1925 P13.5 P13.5 W103 W103 467B 112 466B 111 7k. 3k.
“Decembrists in Exile” Senate Square, Pestel, Ryleev, Senate Square, “Decembrists in Exile” St Petersburg, 1825 Bestuzhev-Ryumin, St Petersburg, 1825 Muravev-Apostol and Kakhovsky
1925 P13.5 W103 468B 113 14k.
Reissue of 437 1926 but Litho 1926 P12 Litho P12 Litho W103 470 W103 469 90 8k. 90 8k. Type (ii) Type (i) (smaller portrait)
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1926 6th International Proletarian Esperanto Congress, Leningrad
1926 P12 x 12.5 W103 472 114 SAMPLE14k. Liberty Monument, Moscow
1926-27 Child Welfare
1926 1927 P13.5 P13.5 W103 474A 116 473B 115 20k. 10k.
Waifs Lenin as a Child Waifs Lenin as a Child
1927 P13.5 W103 476 116 18+2k.
Waifs Lenin as a Child Boy Pioneer (unissued)
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Joseph Stalin Russian Leader from 1927-53 Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin, original name Ioseb Jughashvili was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the second leader of the Soviet Union. Under Stalin, who replaced the New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s with five year plans (introduced in 1928) and collective farming, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society to a major world industrial power. Meanwhile, Stalin consolidated his personal power and eliminated effective political opposition during the 1930s, primarily through the Great Purge. A hard-won victory in World War II (1945), made possible in part through the discipline and capacity for production that were the outcome of the collectivisation, industrialisation, and purges, laid the groundwork for the formation of the Warsaw Pact and established the USSR as one of the two major world powers, a position it maintained for nearly four decades following Stalin's death in 1953.
1927 Surcharged Postage Due Stamps SAMPLE(Designs from 1925 surcharged for postal use) 1927 P12 D478 D104 8k. on 2k.
1927 1927 1927 P12 D484 P12 D486 P12 D488 D104 Typo D104 Typo D104 Typo 8k. on 1k. 8k. on 3k. 8k. on 8k.
1927 P12 D489 D104 Typo 8k. on 10k.
1927 W103 1927 W103 P12 D492 P12 D494 D104 Typo D104 Typo 8k. on 2k. 8k. on 7k.
1927 W103 P12 D494f D104 Typo 8k. on 14k.
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1927 40th Anniv of Publication of Zamenhof’s 1927 Definitives Surcharged “Langue Internationale” Esperanto
1927 1927 1927 P12 P12 W103 P10.5 W103 496 92 497 92 498A 119 8k. on 7k. 8k. on 7k. 14k.
Dr L. L. Zamenhof SAMPLE1859-1917 1927 1st International Air Mail Congress, The Hague
1927 P12.5 x 12 500 120 15k.
Tupolev ANT-3 Biplane and Map
1927 10th Anniversary of October Revolution
1927 P10.5 chalk-surfaced paper 503 123 7k.
Worker, Soldier Allegory of Revolution Smolny Institute Sailor and Worker and Peasant
Soviet Russia Russian Racial Types Worker, Soldier and Peasant (symbolising Federation of Soviet Republic)
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1927 Definitives
1927 P13.5 509 129 2k. chalk-surfaced paper WorkerSAMPLEPeasant Worker Peasant Peasant
Worker Worker Lenin Lenin Lenin
1927 P13.5 522 129 80k. chalk-surfaced paper
Peasant Worker Peasant Worker Peasant
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1927 1927 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 W103 W103 525 109 526 114 surcharged surcharged 1927 8k. on 7k. 8k. on 7k. P13.5 W103 528 112 surcharged SAMPLE 8k. on 7k.
10th Anniversary of Red Army
Vladimir Lenin's government founded the Workers and Peasants Red Army (RKKA) in January 1918. Initially composed of Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers and organised on the militia principle, the RKKA became a conscript force in 1919 and grew to 5.5 million men by the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921. Although it was supposed to be authentically proletarian, the Red Army relied heavily upon expertise and traditions derived from the ancien régime. Possibly as many as 75,000 former tsarist officers entered its service from 1918 to 1921, either voluntarily or under compulsion. Nonetheless, the Red Army suf- fered throughout the war from chronic logistical shortages and mass desertion. In January 1919, I. I. Vatsetis, the RKKA's first commander in chief, wrote to Lenin denouncing the vile sanitary condition of the "filthy and undressed" army. Later that sum- mer Leon Trotsky would still be describing the Red Army as "barefoot, naked, hungry, and lice-ridden." A major reason for these conditions was the Bolshevik decentralisation of the war economy, which made individual Soviet fronts responsible for acquir- ing their uniforms and growing much of their food.
Infantryman Sailor Cavalryman Airman
Military service was unpopular in the villages that supplied the majority of the recruits. Draft evasion was common; the desertion rate mind-boggling. In 1919 alone, for example, the Red Army rounded up 1.7 million AWOL soldiers. As a result, the Red Army constantly experienced difficulty in bringing force to bear on the battlefield, despite its enormous paper strength. It has been estimated that no more than 11 percent of the Red Army was ever at the front, and less than 3 percent ever saw action. In 1920, for instance, the Bolsheviks were able to mobilise only forty thousand men for their unsuccessful Polish cam- paign. Yet the Red Army prevailed against the Whites notwithstanding. After the civil war ended, the RKKA played an indis- pensable part in suppressing anti-Communist peasant rebellions in Tambov, Penza, and Siberia. It was also instrumental in Moscow's reannexation of vast territories in Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
The 1920s were a decade of contraction for the Red Army. The imperative need to reduce the defence burden caused the RKKA to decline to 516,000 men by 1923. At the same time the state emended the conscription statute: the majority of eligible males in any given age cohort were now drafted into the territorial militia, which was called out for active duty only in the sum- mer months. The most important function of the Red Army in the period appears to have been the indoctrination of peasant recruits. A secret report of 1929 spoke of the expanding role of the RKKA as "a political-economic school."
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1928-29 Lenin (Many other watermark and perforation variations exist)
1928 P10 or 10.5 W50 534 105 SAMPLE5r.
1928 Obligatory Tax Exchange Control Stamps (Surcharged stamps of 1921)
1928 1928 1928 P11.5 P11.5 P11.5 T537 55 T538 48 T540 48 10k. on 250r. 25k. on 300r. 1r. on 200r.
1929 Child Welfare
1929 First All-Union Gathering of Pioneers
1929 P10.5 540 137 10k.
1929 P10.5 537 135 20k. + 2k. Trumpeter Sounding the Assembly
Farm Workers
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1929-31 Definitive Issue (Many shades exist, printings after 1931 had yellowish gum)
1929-31 1929-31 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 541 138 546 143 1k. 7k.
Worker Factory Girl Peasant Farm Girl Guardsman Worker, Soldier, Worker SAMPLE Peasant
1929-31 P12 x 12.5 550 146 30k.
Worker, Soldier, Peasant Factory Girl Farm Girl Guardsman Peasant Lenin Peasant
1929-32 High Value Definitive Issue
1932 P12 x 12.5 W103 561 149 1r.
Central Telegraph Office, Lenin Hydro-electric Moscow Power Station
1929 Industrial Loan Propaganda
1929 P12 x 12.5 564 152 10k.
Industry “More Metal, Blast Furnace and graph Tractors more Machines” showing Pig-iron output
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1930 Child Welfare
1930 P10.5 568 135 20k. + 2k. deep blue-green
Farm Workers
SAMPLE1930 10th Anniversary of First Red Cavalry
1930 P12 x 12.5 (Dated “1919-1929”) W103 571 155 10k.
Cavalrymen Cavalry Attack Cavalry Facing Left Cavalry Charge
1930 Educational Exhibition, Leningrad
Group of Soviet Pupils preparing a Poster Newspaper
1930 Graf Zeppelin Flight to Moscow Design from poster appealing for achievement of Five Year Plan in four years
1930 P12.5 W161 575 160 80k.
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1930 25th Anniversary of 1905 Rebellion
1930 P12.5 x 12 (Dated 1930 P12 x 12.5 “1905-1930”) (Dated “1905-1930”) W103 W103 578 155 577 155 10k. 5k.
Battleship Potemkin Barricade and Rebels Red Flag at SAMPLEPresnya Barricade
1930 Imperf. (Dated “1905-1930”) W103 576 155 3k.
1931 Airship Construction Fund (W103 Imperf. types)
From the Tundra (reindeer) Above Lenin’s Above the Dnieprostroi Dam to the Steppes (camel) Mausoleum
Above the North Pole Airship Construction
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1931 Airship Construction Fund (continued) (Perforated 12.5, but compound perfs. also exist)
1931 P 12.5 1931 W103 1931 P 12.5 580b 166 P 12.5 W103 20k. W103 579b 165 581b 167 10k. 15k.
FromSAMPLE the Tundra (reindeer) Above Lenin’s Above the Dnieprostroi Dam to the Steppes (camel) Mausoleum
1931 1931 P 12.5 P 12.5 W103 W103 582a 168 583b 169 50k. 1r.
Above the North Pole Airship Construction
In 1812, desiring to attack Napoleon's army during the French invasion of Russia, Alexander I commissioned the German engineer Leppig to build a large fish-shaped airship propelled by fins: the craft inflated but became damaged and failed to lift off. Like other nations in the early 20th century, Russia began researching and developing its own airships. Russia also purchased airships from the French and then from the German firm Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft, and in the 1920s and 1930s built others such as the USSR-V5 and the SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM with help from the Italian Umberto Nobile.
In the early 1910s, the German firm Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft delivered the small semi-rigid PL 7 "Grif", and the PL 14 Burewestnik to the Russian military. The Albatross was used in World War I. From 1920 to 1947, the Soviet Union apparently built a series of airships mostly designated with the prefix "СССР-B". Much of Soviet airship development remains obscure; the proclaimed rigid "Zeppelin"-style airships announced in the five year plans were probably pure propaganda; there is no known photograph of an actual Soviet rigid airship.
1931 AIR Graf Zeppelin North Pole Flight (Imperf. types)
1931 Imperf. W103 584 170 30k.
Graf Zeppelin over Graf Zeppelin over Ice-breaker Malygin Ice-breaker Malygin
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1931 AIR Graf Zeppelin North Pole Flight (continued) (Perforated 12.5, but compound perfs. also exist)
1931 1931 1931 P 12.5 P 12.5 P 12.5 W103 W103 W103 585b 170 586b 170 587b 170 35k. 1r. 2r.
Graf Zeppelin over Graf Zeppelin over SAMPLEIce-breaker Malygin Ice-breaker Malygin
1931-33 Obligatory Tax Exchange Control Stamps
1933 1933 1932-33 1932-33 1932-33 P 13.5 P 13.5 P 13.5 P 13.5 P 13.5 T589 45 T590 45 T591 45 T592 45 T593 45 5k on 70k. 10k on 70k. 15k on 70k. 25k on 70k. 50k on 35k.
1931 P11.5 T588 48 handstamped 10k. on 25k on 300r. green
1932-33 1933 1933 1933 P 13.5 P 13.5 P 13.5 P 13.5 T594 45 T595 45 T597 45 T598 45 1r. on 35k. 3r. on 35k. 10r. on 35k. 10r. on 70k.
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1932 EXPRESS LETTER
1932 P12 x 12.5 W103 E589 E171 10k.
SAMPLEExpress Motor-van Motor Cyclist Class Ta Steam Locomotive
1932 AIR EXPRESS Second International Polar Year and Franz Joseph’s Land to Archangel Flight
1932 P12.5 W103 E591 E173 50k.
Polar Region and Kalinin K-4 Airplane over Ice-breaker Tamyr
1932 40th Anniv of Publication of “Makar Chadra”
1932 Airship Construction Fund
1932 P12.5 x 12 W103 591 172 35k.
Maksim Gorky (Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov) Above the Dnieprostroi Dam (1868-1936)
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1932-33 15th Anniversary of October Revolution
1932 P12.5 x 12 W103 593 173 3k.
Dnieper Hydroelectric Lenin Addressing the Storming the Winter Harvesting with Combines, Power StationSAMPLE & Dam People in Petrograd Palace, Petrograd Collective Farm
Industrial Metallurgical Plant, Asiatics Saluting the Wireless Mast and Siberians Magnitogorsk, Urals Soviet Flag Listening-in
1932 10th Anniv of Intl. Revolutionaries’ Relief Organisation
MOPR
International Red Aid (also commonly known by its Russian acronym MOPR) was an international social service organisation established by the Communist International (Comintern). The organisation was found- ed in 1922 to function as an "international political Red Cross", provid- ing material and moral aid to radical "class war" political prisoners around the world. The first plenary session of the Central Committee of MOPR was held in June 1923 in Moscow. At this gathering it was determined that MOPR should establish sections in all countries, partic- ularly those suffering from so-called "White terror" against the revolu- tionary movement.
Liberation
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1932 First All-Union Philatelic Exhibition, Moscow (Sold at 3x face value to defray costs of the exhibition)
1932 P12.5 W103 602 176 35k. SAMPLEMuseum of Fine Arts
This miniature sheet was distributed with invitations to the opening of the exhibition but had no franking value.
A fascimile was produced in 1997 by the Canadian Society of Russian Philately.
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1933 50th Anniversary of Death of Karl Marx
Marx’s Grave in Trier, Marx’s Birthplace Karl Marx SAMPLEHighgate Cemetery (1818-1883)
1933 Philatelic Exhibition, Leningrad (No’s 601/2 surcharged in red)
Early Russian Stamp Collectors and Collections
The Russian Civil War of 1918-23 had a massive impact on philatelic collectors in Russia. Most serious collectors were either forced to flee from Russia, or were casualties, either on the battlefields or in the basements of the notorious Cheka secret police. As for their col- lections, most of these were confiscated, destroyed, or stolen. Those collectors who survived this period eventually returned to philately, and even the state education programs started to use philately as a form of distributing knowledge to the population as a whole. Numerous philatelic societies were established and a new generation of collectors joined the hobby.
Betwen 1931-1941, the era of the worst totalitarism in the history of the USSR (under the rule of Stalin), the authorities considered that stamp collectors had far too many contacts and knew too much outside of the confines of official propaganda. Moreover philatelic soci- eties were looked upon suspiciously as potentially counterrevolutionary organisations. Accordingly well known and active collectors were either sent to labour camps or killed. During this period the collections of such unfortunates were accurately confiscated and sold to finance the rising Soviet military industry.
Russian collectors who survived the "Great Patriotic War" of 1941-1945, but found themselves in German occupied territory, had their collections confiscated, but this time by German administrations. In 1944 and 1945 things turned the other way round - Russian soldiers and officers (with any interest in stamps) "confiscated" private collections in Hungary, Romania, Austria and Germany and a flood of stamps went to Russia to fill childrens collections with rarities. While these "enthusiastic amateurs" brought home stamps as part of their war "souvenirs, the officials did it more seriously, moving to Russia entire postal archives, State collections and especially accumulations of stamps formerly confiscated by the Nazis all over Europe.
In complete contrast, 1946-57 was a relatively golden era in Russian philatelic terms - the rising up of a new generation of collectors. Shops were full of nice stamps at prices next to nothing, and collectors were no longer afraid to communicate with one another. After the war, the value of human life was ascribed a modest amount of value. Stamp clubs were established in major cities under the overall man- agement of official societies such as the Artists' Union, Theatre societies and similar organisations.
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1933 Ethnographical Issue
KazakhsSAMPLELesgins Crimean Tatars Jews of Birobidzhan
Tungusians Buryats Chechens Abkhazians
1933 P12.5 x 12 W103 618 183 14k.
Georgians Samoyedes Yakuts Ukrainians
Uzbeks Tadzhiks Transcaucasians
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1933 Ethnographical Issue (continued)
1933 P10.5 x 12 W103 624 184 15k. SAMPLEByelorussians Great Russians
Turkmens Koryaks Bashkirs Chuvashes
1933-34 Communist Party Activists
1933-34 P12 x 12.5 W103 631 186 5k.
V. V. Vorovsky V. M. Volodarsky M. S. Uritsky
Iacov M. Sverdiov Viktor P. Nogin
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1933 AIR Stratosphere Record (19,000 metres)
1933 15th Anniversary Order of Red Banner Badge
1933 P14 W103 636 187 SAMPLE20k.
Stratosphere Balloon Massed USSR-1 over Moscow Standard Bearers
1933 15th Anniversary of the Execution of 26 Baku Commissars
1933 P14 639 189 5k.
The 26 Condemned Commissars
Commissar Shaumyan Commissar Dzhaparidze
Monument in Baku Workman, Peasant and Soldier Dipping Flags in Salute
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1934 AIR 10th Anniv of Soviet Civil Aviation and U.S.S.R. Air-mail Service
TupolevSAMPLE ANT-9 PS9 over Tupolev ANT-9 PS9 Tupolev ANT-9 PS9 Furnaces at Kuznetsk over Oilfield over Harvesters
Tupolev ANT-9 PS9 over Tupolev ANT-9 PS9 over Volga-Moscow Canal Ice-breaker Ob
1934 1934 1934 P14 P14 P14 No Watermark No Watermark No Watermark 643B 190 644B 190 645B 190 5k. 10k. 20k.
1934 1934 P14 P14 No Watermark No Watermark 646B 190 647B 190 50k. 80k.
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1934 10th Anniversary of Lenin’s Death
New Lenin Mausoleum, SAMPLERed Square, Moscow 1934 P13.5 651 191 20k.
1934 350th Anniversary of Ivan Fyodorov (First Russian Printer)
Fyodorov Monument, Moscow, and Hand and Rotary Presses
1934 Birth Centenary of Dmitri Mendeleev (Chemist)
1934 P13.5 W103 657 194 15k.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907)
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1934 AIR Stratosphere Balloon Osoaviakhim Disaster Victims
1934 P11 W103 659 195 5k.
SAMPLEI. D. Usyskin and A. V. Vasenko and P. F. Fedoseenko and Osoaviakhim Osoaviakhim Osoaviakhim
1934 1934 1934 P14 P14 P14 W103 W103 W103 659B 195 660B 195 661B 195 5k. 10k. 20k.
1934 AIR Airship Travel Propaganda
Airship Pravda Airship Landing
Airship’s Gondolas and Mooring Mast
Airship Voroshilov Airship Lenin and Route Map
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1934 10 Years without Lenin 1924-1934
1934 P14 670 198 10k.
SAMPLELenin at 3 Yrs. Lenin as Student Lenin as Man Lenin as Orator
Red Demonstration Stalin and Marchers at Lenin’s Mausoleum inspired by Lenin
1935 Anti-War
1935 P14 W103 676 200 20k.
War Clouds Flight from a Before War Ploughing Fraternisation Burning Village and Afterwards with the Sword
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1935 AIR Rescue of Chelyuskin Expedition
SAMPLE Capt. Voronin and A. V. Lyapidevsky S. A. Levanevsky Prof. Schmidt and Ice-breaker Chelyuskin Schmidt Camp
1935 P14 W103 682 204 15k.
M. G. Slepnev M. V. Vodopyanov N. P. Kamanin
I. V. Doronin V. S. Molokov
Schmidt Camp Deserted
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1935 Opening of Moscow Underground Railway
1935 P14 W103 689 205 10k.
Excavating a Tunnel Section of Tunnel, Underground Station SAMPLEEscalator and Station
Trains in Station
The first plans for a metro system in Moscow date back to the Russian Empire but were postponed by World War I, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. Soviet workers did the labour and the art work, but the main engineering designs, routes, and construction plans were handled by spe- cialists recruited from the London Underground. The Britons called for tunneling instead of the "cut-and-cover" technique, the use of escalators instead of lifts, the routes, and the design of the rolling stock. The paranoia of Stalin and the NKVD was evident when the secret police arrested numerous British engineers for espionage - that is for gaining an in-depth knowledge of the city's physical layout. Engineers for the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company were given a show trial and deported in 1933, ending the role of British business in the USSR!
1935 Spartacist Games, Moscow
1935 P14 693 207 2k.
Running Diving
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1935 Spartacist Games, Moscow (continued) SAMPLE
Rowing Football
Skiing
Cycling Tennis
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Skating
Hurdling
Parade of Athletes
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1935 40th Death Anniversary of Friedrich Engels (German Socialist and Collaborator of Marx)
1935 P14 W103 703 208 SAMPLE10k. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1935 AIR Moscow to San Francisco via North Pole
Sigizmund Levanevsky
Levanevsky had been a pilot with the Glavsevmorput and had accomplished several long distance flights. In April 1934 Levanevsky piloted from an improvised airfield on the Arctic ice of the Chukchi Sea, taking part in the successful aerial rescue operation saving people from the sunken steamship Cheliuskin. He was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for this deed, though actually he didn't reach their "ice-camp" because of his crash near Vankarem, so he didn't rescue anyone. In August 1935, Levanevsky completed his first North Pole flight, a journey from Moscow to San Francisco. A contemporary of Charles Lindbergh, Levanevsky was celebrated as a hero of the new age of aviation. In early 1936 he flew back from Los Angeles, USA to Moscow, USSR cover- ing 19,000 kilometers (over 11,800 miles) on his way. The airmail stamp carries an overprint with the inscription “Flight Moscow - San Francisco via North Pole 1935”.
1935 Third International Congress of Persian Art and Archaeology, Leningrad
1935 P14 W103 709 210 15k.
A Lion Hunt from a Sassanian Dynasty Silver Plate
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1935 60th Birthday of Mikhail Kalinin (Chairman of Central Exec Committee of USSR)
1935 P14 712 211 5k.
SAMPLEKalinin as Kalinin as Harvester Kalinin as Orator M. I. Kalinin Machine Worker (1875-1946)
1935 25th Death Anniversary of Leo Tolstoi (Writer 1828-1910)
1935 P11 717 212 20k.
Tolstoi in 1860 Tolstoi in 1910 Tolstoi Monument in Moscow
1936 Communist Party Activists
1936 P11 W103 720 186 40k.
M. Frunze N. E. Bauman S. M. Kirov
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1936 Pioneers
1936 P11 723 213 3k.
Pioneers Securing Letter-box Pioneers Securing Letter-box Pioneer preventing another Pioneer preventing another SAMPLEfrom throwing stones from throwing stones
1936 Birth Cent. of Dubrolyubov
Pioneers disentangling kiteline Girl Pioneer Saluting from telegraph wires
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)
1936-41 Definitive Issue Typo, No Wmk.
1940 1938 1937 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 727a 138 727b 139 727e 138 1k. 2k. 10k. worker factory girl worker
1936 1937 1937 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 727h 141 727i 145 727l 144 20k. 20k. 40k. farm girl peasant Lenin
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1937 Death Centenary of Aleksander Pushkin (Poet 1799-1837)
1937 P12.5 730 215 40k. SAMPLEchalky paper
Pushkin Monument, Moscow
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1937 Architecture of New Moscow
Meyerhold Theatre, Telegraph Agency House SAMPLETchaikovsky Concert Hall
1937 P12.5 737A 217 15k.
Meyerhold Theatre, Telegraph Agency House Red Army Theatre Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Hotel Moscow Palace of the Soviets
Red Army Theatre
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1937 Architecture of New Moscow (continued)
1937 1937 Imperf. Imperf. 734B 217 735B 217 3k. 5k. SAMPLE
1937 1937 1937 Imperf. Imperf. Imperf. 736B 217 737B 217 738B 217 10k. 15k. 20k.
1937 1937 Imperf. W103 Imperf. 739B 217 740B 217 30k. 40k.
1937 Imperf. 741B 217 50k.
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1937 1st Soviet Architectural Congress
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Palace of the Soviets
Palace of the Soviets
The Palace of Soviets was a project to construct an administrative cen- tre and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The architectural contest for the Palace of Soviets (1931-1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Schuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a supertall skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's tallest structure.
Construction started in 1937, and was terminated by the German inva- sion in 1941. In 1941-1942, its steel frame was disassembled for use in fortifications and bridges. Construction never resumed again. In 1958, the foundations of the Palace were converted into the largest ever open-air swimming pool. The Cathedral was rebuilt in 1995-2000. A nearby subway station, built in 1935 as Palace of Soviets station, was renamed Kropotkinskaya in 1957.
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1937 10th Death Anniversary of Feliks Dzerzhinsky (Founder of the Cheka - Soviet Secret Police)
1937 P12.5 743 218 20k.
SAMPLEF. E. Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926)
1937 AIR Air Force Exhibition
1937 P12.5 747 219 20k.
Yakovlev Ya-7 Air 7 Tupolev ANT-9
Tupolev ANT-6 Bomber O.S.G.A. 101 Flying Boat Tupolev ANT-4 TB1 Bomber
Tupolev ANT-20 Maksim Gorky Tupolev ANT-14 Pravda
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1937 All-Union Avion Fair
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ANT-14 "Pravda"
Tupolev ANT-14 “Pravda”
The one-off ANT-14 Pravda designed by A. N. Tupolev, was an enlargement of the ANT-9, powered by five 358kW Jupiter radials and capable of carrying a crew of five and 36 passengers at a maximum 236km/h. It spanned 40.40m as against the 23.80m of the ANT-9. Empty weight was 10,650 kg and maximum take-off weight was 17,146 kg. The ANT-14 had a range of 1,200 km, an operational ceiling of 4,220 m, and cruise speed of only 195 km/h. It was used mostly for commercial amusement flights over Moscow. Two flights were also made to Kharkiv, and one to Leningrad. Pravda made over 1,000 flights and carried over 40,000 passengers without a glitch during 10 years before being grounded in 1941.
Unfortunately, USSR had no capacities for mass production of such an airliner. There was also no internal market for large aircraft (one of the largest passenger planes of its time!). ANT-14 was transferred to the Soviet Propaganda squadron named after Maxim Gorky, where it served as a flagship for many years. ANT-14 served until its resources run out. It was transferred to exposition of military equip- ment, where it served as a documentary movie theatre during the Great Patriotic War.
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1937-38 New USSR Constitution Arms of Constituent Republics
1938 P12.5 x 12 756 220 20k.
SAMPLEArmenia Azerbaijan Byelorussia Georgia
Kazakhstan Kirghizia Tadzhikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine
Uzbekistan USSR RSFSR
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1938 Paris International Exhibition 1938 750th Anniv of Poem
1938 P12.5 x 12 765 222 5k.
Worker and Farmer Soviet Pavilion, Paris Expo Worker and Farmer Shota Rustaveli SAMPLE “Knight in Tiger Skin” 1938 North Pole Flight
1938 P12.5 x 12 772 226 80k.
Route of North Pole Flight Soviet Flag at North Pole
1938 20th Anniversary of Red Army
1938 P12.5 774 227 20k. thick buff paper
Infantryman Tank Driver Sailor Airman Artilleryman
Stalin Reviewing Cavalry Machine Gunners
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1938 First Flight over North Pole Moscow (USSR) to Portland (USA)
1938 P12.5 782 229 SAMPLE40k.
Aviators G. Baidukov, V. Chkalov and A. Belyakov
Russia's Shortcut to Fame: A Hoax Exposed or True?
The first claimed transpolar flight, in a "Russian ANT-25" which was actually one of a pair of French Dewoitine D 33's which had crashed in Russian territory in 1931 and been rebuilt. So many inconsistencies exist in the claim of having flown non-stop over the North Pole that the US Government, headed by F. D. Roosevelt, must have known that it was fraudulent. Army General George C. Marshall, later Army Chief of Staff, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Special Ambassador to China, architect of the "Marshall Plan" and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, did his best to keep the heavy-drinking fliers in check and prevent the press from asking awkward questions before Troyanovsky, the Soviet Ambassador, arrived.
1938 Second Flight over North Pole Moscow (USSR) to San-Jacinto (USA)
1938 P12.5 786 230 50k.
Aviators M. Gromov, A. Yumashev and S. Danilin
Disputed Second Flight over North Pole
The second claimed transpolar flight. After supposedly flying for 60-odd hours, the engine of the second ANT-25 "was absolute- ly clean of any oil and it gave the general appearance of an engine having just been completely cleaned. The exhaust smudge on the fuselage was exceedingly light." The Air Force personnel who inspected the aircraft remarked that the general work- manship "was very poor, welding was poor, riveting unevenly spaced, the heads of rivets generally crushed, inferior painting, apparently brushed on, and the fabric very loose." (Russia's Shortcut to Fame, p. 209)
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1938 Rescue of Palpanin’s North Pole Meteorological Party
1938 P12.5 789 232 30k.
SAMPLEIce-breaker Rescue Ships Ivan Papanin and Approaching Survivors Survivors
1938 Soviet Union Children - Child Welfare
1938 P12 x 12.5 793 235 20k.
Nurse Weighing Children Visiting Biology Lesson Health Camp Baby Statue of Lenin
Biology Lesson Young Model Builders Young Inventors at Play
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1938 Views of Crimea and Caucasus
1938 P12.5 799 235 5k. Crimean LandscapeSAMPLEView along Crimean Shore Georgian Military Road
View near Yalta
Crimean Shoreline Swallows’ Nest Castle
Dzerzkhinski Rest House for Workers (Crimea) Sunset in Crimea Alupka
Crimean Gardens Swallows’ Nest Castle
Gurzuf Park
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1938 AIR Aviation
1938 P12.5 x 12 812 236 15k.
Schoolchildren and Model Captive Observation Airship Osoaviakhim Glider in Flight TupolevSAMPLE ANT-6 Bomber Balloon over Kremlin
Parachutists Yakovlev VT-2 Seaplane Balloon in Flight Stratosphere Balloon Tupolev ANT-6 Bomber
1938 Moscow Underground Railway 1938 Extension P12.5 820 237 15k.
Mayakovskaya Station Sokol Terminal Kievskaya Station
Dynamo Station Train in Tunnel Revolutskaya Station
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1938 20th Anniversary of Federation of Young Lenin Communists
1938 P12 x 12.5 827 238 40k.
Girl Parachutist SAMPLEMiner and Harvesting Students & University Airman, Sailor Pneumatic Drill and Battleship Marat
1938 Soviet Sports
1938 P12.5 831 240 10k.
Diving Discus Throwing Tennis Motor Cycling
Skiing Sprinting Football Athletic Parade
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1939 New Moscow
1939 P12.5 x 12 838 241 10k.
SAMPLEGorky Avenue
Council of Peoples’ Commissars Headquarters Lenin Library Crimea Suspension Bridge and Hotel Moscow over River Moskva
Arched Bridge over River Moskva Khimki River Station
Dynamo Underground Station
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1939 Women’s Moscow-Far East Flight 1939-43 New Definitive Issue The first non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East
1939 P12.5 847 242 60k.
1939 P12 x 12.5 847f Paulina Osipenko SAMPLEManna Raskova Valentina Grisodubova 242f 60k.
1939 New York World’s Fair
1939 1939-40 P12.5 P12.5 No Wmk. 848 243 851 105 30k. 5r.
Statue over Russian Russian Pavilion, Pavilion N.Y. World’s Fair
1939 125th Birth Anniversary of Taras G. Shevchenko (Ukrainian Poet and Painter)
1939 P12.5 855 244 60k.
T. G. Shevchenko Last Portrait of Monument to Shevchenko in early Manhood Shevchenko in Kharkov
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1939 All-Union Agricultural Fair
1939 P12.5 859 245 30k.
Milkmaid Harvesting Sheep Farming Agricultural Fair SAMPLE Emblem
Agricultural Fair Gathering Cotton Thoroughbred Horses Agricultural Wealth Pavilion
Girl with Sugar-beet Trapper
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1939 Aviation Day (Designs from 1938, new colours, overprinted)
1939 P12.5 x 12 overprinted 867 236 30k. blue
Glider inSAMPLE Flight Parachutists Yakovlev VT-2 Seaplane Balloon in Flight
Tupolev ANT-6 Bomber
1939 P12 x 12.5 No Wmk. 871a 141 30k. on 4k. Farm Girl
1939 50th Death Anniv of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Writer and Satirist)
1939 P12.5 x 12 875 249 60k.
Saltykov-Shchedrin Saltykov-Shchedrin Saltykov-Shchedrin Saltykov-Shchedrin as a young man in later years as a young man in later years
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1939 Caucasian Health Resorts
1939 P12.5 878 250 15k. KislovodskSAMPLE Sanatorium Sochi Convalescent Home Sochi Convalescent Home
Abkhazia Sanatorium Sochi Convalescent Home
Sochi Convalescent Home Sukumi Rest Home Sochi Convalescent Home
1939 125th Birth Anniv of Mikhail Lermontov (Poet and Novelist)
1939 P12.5 886 251 45k.
M. I. Lermontov (1814-1841)
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1939 50th Death Anniv of Nikolai Chernyshevsky (Writer and Politician)
1939 P12.5 x 12 889 252 60k.
SAMPLEN. G. Chernyshevsky (1828-1889)
1939 1939 1939 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 887 252 888 252 889 252 15k. 30k. 60k.
1940 80th Birth Anniversary of Anton Chekhov (Writer)
1940 P12.5 x 12 893 253 30k.
A. P. Chekhov A. P. Chekhov (1860-1904) with hat on
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1940 Occupation of Eastern Poland The Re-unification of the West Ukraine with Ukraine SSR and West Byelorussia with Byelorussia SSR
1940 P12.5 894 254 30k.
Welcoming Villagers Welcoming SAMPLESoviet Red Army Troops Tank Crew
Soldier Distributing Soldier Distributing People Waving Newspapers to Crowd Newspapers to Crowd to Column of Tanks
1940 Polar Research Heroism of the Sedov crew which drifted in the Polar Basin for 812 days
1940 P12 x 12.5 900 255 50k.
Ice-breaker Iosif Stalin and Ice-breaker Georgy Sedov and Meeting between Portraits of Chief Papanin and Portraits of Captain Bagdin and First Bagdin and Papanin Captain Belousov Mate Trofimov
Route of Georgy Sedov’s Drift
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1940 10th Death Anniv. of Vladimir Mayakovsky (Poet)
1940 P12.5 905 256 80k.
V. V. Mayakovsky V. V. Mayakovsky (1893-1930) (1893-1930) SAMPLEPortrait of Mayakovsky Wearing Cap
1940 20th Death Anniversary of Timiryazev (Scientist)
1940 P12.5 909 257 60k.
Miniature of Timiryazev and Timiryazev in Laboratory K. A. Timiryazev Timiryazev’s Statue, Academy of Agricultural (1843-1920) Moscow Sciences, Moscow
1940 2nd All-Union Physical Culture Festival (Relay Race, Girls’ Parade, Children and Sports Badges, Skiing, Grenade-throwing)
1940 P12.5 913 258 60k.
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1940 All-Union Agricultural Fair, Moscow
Leningrad and Three Central Regions Ukrainian SSR Byelorussian SSR Azerbaijan SSR North East RSFSRSAMPLE(RSFSR)
Armenian SSR Uzbek SSR Tadzhik SSR Kirgiz SSR Karelo-Finnish SSR
Kazakh SSR Main Pavilion Mechanisation Pavilion and Statue of Stalin
Volga Provinces (RSFSR) Far East Georgian SSR Turkmen SSR
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1940 Birth Centenary of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Composer 1840-1893)
1940 P12.5 x 12 917 259 30k.
Tchaikovsky’s HouseSAMPLE Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky’s House Full-face Portrait of at Klin and Passage from his and Passage from his at Klin Composer and Excerpt “Fourth Sympthony” “Fourth Sympthony” from “Eugene Onegin”
1940 20th Anniv of Wrangel’s Defeat at Perekop (Crimea)
1940 P12.5 937 261 10k.
Red Army Grenade Thrower Map of Perekop and Heroes Monument Portrait of M. V. Frunze
Soldiers Crossing the Sivash A Victorious Soldier Army H.Q. at Stroganovka
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1940 20th Anniv of Wrangel’s Defeat 1940 1940 1940 at Perekop Imperf. Imperf. Imperf. (continued) 937B 261 938B 261 939B 261 10k. 15k. 30k.
SAMPLE 1940 Imperf. 1940 1940 942B 261 Imperf. Imperf. 1r. 940B 261 941B 261 50k. 60k.
1941 Industrial and Agricultural Records (Stakhanov Output)
Coal Miners and Blast Furnace Railway Bridge and Steam Locomotives Pithead Moscow-Volga Canal
Harvesting on a Ball-bearing Vehicles Derrick and Collective Farm Petroleum Refinery
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1941-43 23rd Anniversary of Red Army
1941 P12.5 951 263 10k.
Red Army Ski CorpsSAMPLESailor Artillery Cavalry Automatic Rifle Sqad
1943 P12.5 957b 263 3r.
Clearing a Hurdle Airman Marshal’s Star Marshal’s Star
1941 20th Death Anniv of Zhukovsky
1941 P12.5 960 264 50k.
Zhukovsky N. E. Zhukovsky and Zhukovsky Lecturing ( 1847-1921) Air Force Academy
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow. He was the first scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift, through his circulation hypothesis, the first to dimension the lift force generated by a body moving through an ideal fluid as proportional to the velocity and the circulation around the body, and through a mathematical conformal transformation the first to define the shape of the aerodynamic profile having as essential elements a rounded nose (leading edge), dou- ble surface (finite thickness), cambered or symmetrical, and a sharp tail (trailing edge). He built the first wind tunnel in Russia.
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1941 First Anniv of Karelo-Finnish Republic
1941 15th Anniv of Kirghiz SSR
1941 P12.5 1941 964 266 P12.5 45k. 962 265 30k.
Thoroughbred Horses Coal-miner and Colliery Arms of Arms of SAMPLEKarelo-Finnish SSR Karelo-Finnish SSR
1941 150th Anniversary of Battle and Capture of the Turkish Fortress, Izmail
1941 P12.5 967 267 30k.
Storming of Izmail Marshal Suvorov (1729-1800)
1941 Definitive Issue
1941 P12 x 12.5 971 268 2r.
Spassky Tower, Krermlin Palace Kremlin
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1941 25th Death Anniversary of Surikov (Artist)
1941 P12.5 974 269 50k.
“Suvorov’s March SAMPLE“Razin on the Volga” “Suvorov’s March “Razin on the Volga” V. I. Surikov Through the Alps, 1799” Through the Alps, 1799” (1848-1916)
1941 Fifth Anniversary of Lenin Museum
1941 P12.5 979 270 45k.
Lenin Museum Exterior of Lenin Museum Lenin Museum Exterior of Lenin Museum
1941 Death Cent of Lermontov 1941 Mobilisation (Poet and Novelist) (“Be a Hero!”) 1941 National Defence
1941 P12.5 982 271 30k.
M. Yu. Lermontov Mother’s Farewell to a People’s Militia (1814-1841) Soldier Son
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1942 5th Centenary of Ukbek Poet “Mir Ali Shir”
(Mir) ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī (also spelled Nevā’ī) was a Central Asian Turkic politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet. He was the greatest representative of Chagatai language literature. Under the pen name Navā'i, Mīr Alī Shīr was among the key writers who revolutionized the literary use of the Turkic lan- guages. Navā'ī himself wrote primarily in the Chagatai language and produced 1942 30 works over a period of 30 years, during which Chagatai became accepted as P12.5 a prestigious and well-respected literary language. Navā'ī's best-known poems 986 274 are found in his four divans, or poetry collections, which total roughly 50,000 1r. verses. Each part corresponds to a different period of a person's life:
Ghara’ib al-Sighar ("Wonders of Childhood") Navadir al-Shabab ("Rarities or Witticisms of Youth") Bada'i' al-Wasat ("Marvels of Middle Age") SAMPLEFawa'id al-Kibar ("Advantages of Old Age") Alishir Navai (1441-1501)
1942 Russian War Heroes (1st Issue)
Lt. Talalikhin ramming Capt. Gastello and Burning Fighter Maj.-Gen Dovator and Cossack Enemy Bomber Plane diving into enemy Cavalry in Action petrol tanks
1942 P12.5 990 275 30k.
Shura Chekalin Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya Shura Chekalin Guerilla Fighting being led to death Guerilla Fighting
Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya being led to death
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1942-43 War Episodes (1st Issue)
SAMPLEAnti-tank Gun Signallers Guerillas Attacking Train
Munition Worker Defenders of Leningrad Machine Gunners
1942-43 War Episodes (2nd Issue)
1943 P12.5 1002 277 30k.
Distributing Gifts to Soldiers Bomber Destroying Tank Food Packers Woman Sewing Anti-aircraft Gun
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1943 25th Anniversary of October Revolution
1943 P12.5 1006 278 10k.
Munition Worker Lorry Convoy with Bread Red Guard, 1917 The Assault of Zimniy Palace, SAMPLEwith Lenin’s Banner Leningrad, 1917
Spassky Tower and Portraits Parade of Tanks Lenin Speaking Star of the Order of Lenin of Lenin and Stalin
1943 War Episodes (3rd Issue)
Nurses and Wounded Soldier Scouts
1943 P12.5 1015 279 30k.
Mine-thrower Anti-tank Troops Sniper
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1943 Death Bicentenary of Vitus Bering (Explorer 1681-1741)
SAMPLERoutes of Bering’s Voyages Mt. St. Ilya 1943 P12.5 1021 280 2r.
Mt. St. Ilya Routes of Bering’s Voyages 1943 75th Birth Anniv. of Maksim Gorky (Novelist)
1943 P12.5 1023 281 60k.
M. Gorky (1868-1936)
1943 War Orders and Medals (1st Issue) 1943 125th Birth Anniv of Marx
1943 P12.5 1943 1025 282 P12.5 10r. 1027 283 olive-black 10r.
Order of the Order of Suvorov Karl Marx Great Patriotic War (1818-1883)
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1943 25th Anniversary of Red Army and Navy
1943 P12.5 1030 284 60k.
Sailor and Anti-aircraft Gun Tank and Infantry
Naval Landing SAMPLEParty Naval Landing Party
1943 125th Birth Anniv of Turgenev (Novelist)
1943 P12.5 1033 285 60k.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
1943-44 25th Anniversary of Young Communist League
1944 P12.5 1034 286 20k.
Loading a Gun Tank and Banner Bayonet Fighter and Flag Infantryman Grenade Thrower
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1943 50th Birth Anniversary of Mayakovsky (Poet)
1943 Teheran Three Power Conference and 25th Anniversary of Revolution
1943 P12.5 1039 287 1943 60k. P12.5 1040 288 30k.
SAMPLEV. V. Mayakovsky Memorial Tablet and Allied Flags 1893-1930
1944 AIR 10th Anniversary of Stratosphere Disaster
1944 P12.5 No Wmk. 1044/661 195 (new value & picture) 1r.
Usyskin Vasenko Fedoseenko
1944 Liberation of Russian Towns
1944 P12.5 1046 289 30k. blue
Stalingrad Sevastopol Leningrad Defence of Odessa
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1944 Liberation of Russian Towns SAMPLE
1944 Minisheet Imperf. MS1048 Type I 1047 x 4
Liberation of Leningrad
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1944 Liberation of Russian Towns SAMPLE
Liberation of Leningrad
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1944 Russian War Heroes (2nd Issue)
1944 P12.5 1048e 275 30k.
Lt. Talalikhin ramming Capt. Gastello and Burning Fighter Shura Chekalin Enemy Bomber Plane diving into enemy Guerilla Fighting SAMPLEpetrol tanks
Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya Five Heroes being led to death
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)
On June 22, 1941 the German army launched Operation Barbarossa. At 03:00 in the morning, 153 German divisions stormed across the Soviet border. They were aided by forces from 9 other nations. The attack was a complete surprise and by the end of 1941 most of European Russia was under German domination. The Germans soon reached the edges of Moscow, surrounded Leningrad, and advanced rapidly towards the Caucasus and a city on the Volga called Stalingrad. It was at these cities that the seemingly unstoppable Wehrmacht ground to a halt in the winter of 1942. From that point on the Workers and People's Red Army would give the Germans only one choice - go back or be destroyed. This was shown at the battle of Kursk in 1943, which is considered by many to be the point when the Germans lost the strategic initiative forever.
Even thought the opening of the second front in 1944 by the United States and her allies diverted German resources, the die had already been cast. Hitler's thousand year Reich was doomed, it was only a matter of time before the Red Army would punish it for its aggression. The titanic struggle would end on May 9, 1945 when Soviet forces would accept the surrender of Nazi Germany in the ruins of its capi- tal. The war was the largest in history and resulted in over 18 million Soviet casualties. The Red Army that ended the war was very dif- ferent than the Army that faced the initial German invasion in 1941. Weapons technology advanced dramatically during the war years. New tanks, aircraft, and infantry weapons reached the front and helped turn the tide. The Great Patriotic War was the largest war in his- tory in terms of area, casualties, resources used, and devastation caused.
1944 AIR
1944 P12.5 1049 275 Surc. T290 1r. on 30k. blue-grey
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1944 War Orders and Medals (2nd Series)
1944 Imperf 1053A 291 30k. blue-green (blue)
Order of Patriotic War Order of Alexander Order of Suvorov Order of Kutusov SAMPLENevsky
1944 1944 1944 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 1051B 291 1052B 291 1054B 291 15k. 20k. 60k.
Order of Patriotic War Order of Alexander Order of Suvorov Order of Kutusov Nevsky
Order of Patriotic War Order of Alexander Order of Kutusov Order of Suvorov Nevsky
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1944 “20 years without Lenin”
1944 P12 1059 198 30k. SAMPLE Lenin at 3 Years of Age Lenin at School Lenin when a Man Lenin as Orator
Stalin and Marchers Lenin Mausoleum and Red Square, Stalin and Marchers inspiried by Lenin Moscow inspired by Lenin
1944 14th June (Allied Nations Day)
1944 P12.5 1067 294 3r.
Allied Flags
The Allies of World War II ("Anti-Hitler coalition") were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies became involved in World War II either because they had already been invaded, were directly threatened with invasion by the Axis or because they were concerned that the Axis powers would come to control the world. The anti-German coalition at the start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom, soon to be joined by the British domin- ions (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa). After 1941, the leaders of the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America known as the "Big Three", held leadership of the allied powers. China, at that time, was also a major Ally. Other Allies included Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Greece, India (as part of the British Empire), Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway and Yugoslavia.
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1944 Birth Cent of Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer)
1944 Imperf. 1070A 295 1r.
Rimsky-Korsakov and Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov and Rimsky-Korsakov BolshoiSAMPLE Theatre and Open Book Bolshoi Theatre and Open Book
1944 1944 1944 1944 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 1068B 295 1069B 295 1070B 295 1071B 295 30k. 60k. 1r. 3r.
1944 War Heroes (3rd Issue)
A. M. Matrosov (1924-1943) F. A. Luzan (1921-1941) and his Feat and his Feat
Kh. Nuradilov (1920-1942) Polivanova and Kovshova and Machine-gun
B. Safonev, Medals and Aerial Battle over Sea
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1944 75th Birth Anniv of Chaplygin 1944 Death Centenary of Krylov (Scientist) (Fabulist)
1944 1944 P12.5 P12.5 1078 298 1088 302 1r. 1r.
SAMPLES. A. Chaplygin I. A. Krylov (1869-1942) (1769-1844)
1944 Heroes of 1918 Civil War
V. I. Chapaev N. A. Shchors S. Lazo
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (1887-1919) was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. Chapayev was born into a poor peasant family in a village called Budayka, now part of Cheboksary. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St. George three times. In September 1917, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). In December he was elected commander of the 138 Infantry Regiment by a vote of the reg- iment's soldiers. He later commanded the 2nd Nikolaev Division and the 25th Rifle Division.
On September 5, 1919, the divisional headquarters near Lbishchensk (now renamed Chapayev in his honour) were ambushed by White Army forces. According to official sources, Chapayev tried to escape by swimming across the Ural River, but was never again seen alive. "In 1919, a wounded Chapayev was shot and drowned in the Ural river". His body was never recovered, but the town where he died was later renamed Chapaev, and a museum was established in 1927.
Private life: In 1908 Chapayev became acquainted with Pelageya Metelina, who was 18. Although his father didn't approve of their relations, Vasily Ivanovich married her. They lived together for 6 years, and had three children, one of which was Klavdia Chapayeva. Though there was no official divorce, in 1917 Chapayev started living with the widow of his deceased fellow-soldier Petr Kishkertsev. Curiously enough, her name was also Pelageya. Chapayev adopted both of her children. Currently the only relative that remains is his great-great-grand daugh- ter Vasilisa Chapayeva, with her parents Yevgenia Chapayeva and Viktor Pecherin.
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1944 Birth Anniv of Ilya Refimovich Repin (Artist)
1944 Imperf. 1085A 300 “Reply of the Cossacks 1r. SAMPLEto Sultan Mahmoud IV”
Ilya Repin Ilya Repin (1844-1930) (self portrait)
“Reply of the Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV”
1944 1944 P12.5 P12.5 1083B 301 1084B 301 50k. 60k.
1944 1944 P12.5 P12.5 1082B 300 1085B 300 30k. 1r.
1944 P12.5 1086B 301 2r.
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1945 War Orders and Medals (3rd Series)
1945 Imperf 1090A 302a 30k. blue (pale blue)
Partisans’ Medal Medal for Bravery Order of Bogdan Order of Victory SAMPLEChmielnitsky
Order of Ushakov Order of Nakhimov
1945 1945 1945 1945 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 P12.5 1089B 302a 1090B 302a 1091B 302a 1092B 302a 15k. 30k. 45k. 60k.
1945 1945 P12.5 P12.5 1093B 302a 1094B 302a 1r. 1r.
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1945 150th Birth Anniversary of Aleksander Griboedov (Author)
1945 P12.5 1096 303 60k.
SAMPLEA. S. Griboedov (1795-1829)
1945-49 War Orders and Medals (4th Series)
1948 P12.5 1098a 304 2r. blackish-purple
Medal for Bravery Order of Bogdan Order of Bogdan Order of Bogdan Chmielnitsky Chmielnitsky Chmielnitsky
1948 P12.5 1099a 304 3r. brown-purple
Order of Nakhimov Order of Nakhimov
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1945 Liberation of Leningrad SAMPLE
Soldier
1945 P12 1101 305 3r.
Soviet Soldier with Banner
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1952 50th Death Anniversary of Uspensky (Writer) 1952 75th Death Anniv of Ogarev 1952 150th Birth Anniversary (Poet and Revolutionary Writer) of Admiral Nakhimov
SAMPLEG. I. Uspensky (1843-1902)
N. P. Ogarev P. S. Nakhimov (1813-1877) (1802-1855)
1952 150th Anniv of Extension of Tartu University
The University of Tartu is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia. Established by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632, it is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe.
Tartu University, Estonia
1952 War Orders and Medals (7th Series)
Order of Insignia Order of Red Star Order of Red Banner Order of Red Banner Order of Lenin of Honour of Labour
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1952 50th Death Anniv of Nasyri 1952 150th Death Anniversary (Tartar Educator) of Radishchev (Writer)
SAMPLEKayum Nasyri A. N. Radishchev (1825-1902) (1749-1802)
1952 35th Anniv of Russian Revolution 1952 Death Cent of Fedotov (Painter)
Entrance to Lenin, Stalin, Spassky Tower P. A. Fedotov Volga-Don Canal and Flags (1815-1852)
1952 50th Death Anniv of Polenov (Painter)
V. D. Polenov “Moscow Courtyard” (1844-1927)
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1952 25th Death Anniversary 1952 150th Birth Anniversary of Bekhterev (Psychiatrist) of Odoevsky (Poet)
1952 Birth Centenary of Mamin-Sibiryak (Writer) SAMPLE A. I. Odoevsky D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak V. M. Bekhterev (1802-1839) (1852-1912) (1857-1927)
1952 Moscow Underground Stations
1952 P12.5 1792 537 40k.
Belorussia Koltsevaya Botanical Gardens
Novoslobodskaya Komsomolskaya Koltsevaya Station
1952 30th Anniv of USSR
USSR Arms and Flags
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Georgy Malenkov Russian Leader from 1953-1955 1953 29th Death Anniv of Lenin Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician, Communist Party leader and close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death, he became Premier of the Soviet Union and was considered the most powerful Soviet politician before being overshadowed and ousted by Nikita Khrushchev. Malenkov was forced to resign, in 1955, after he came under attack for abuse of power and his close connection to Beria (who was executed as a traitor in December 1953). He was held responsible for the slow pace of reforms, particularly when it came to rehabilitating political prisoners.
In 1957, Malenkov organised another attempted coup against Khrushchev and Georgiy Zhukov. In a dramatic standoff in the Kremlin, Malenkov was turned on by both Khrushchev and Zhukov, who had the support of the Soviet armed forces. Malenkov's attempt failed. Bulganin together with his co-conspirators Vyacheslav Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich, who were characterised by Khrushchev at an extraordinary session of the Party Central Committee as the 'Anti-Party Group', were swiftly fired from the Politburo. In 1961, SAMPLEMalenkov was expelled from the Communist Party and exiled to a remote province of the Soviet Union. Malenkov in his later years converted to Russian Orthodoxy, as did Lenin and Flags his daughter.
1953 65th Birth Anniv of Kuibyshev (Statesman - Bolshevik Leader) 1953 60th Birth Anniversary 1953 Stalin Peace Prize of Mayakovsky (Poet)
V. V. Mayakovsky Morozov Monument, (1893-1930) Moscow V. V. Kuibyshev (1888-1935)
1953 Birth Cent of Korolenko 1953 125th Birth Anniv of Chernyshevsky (Writer) 1953 125th Birth Anniversary (Writer, radical leader - exiled to Siberia) of Leo Tolstoi (Writer)
N. G. Chernyshevsky Count L. N. Tolstoi (1828-1889) V. G. Korolenko (1828-1910) (1853-1921)
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1953 Volga-Don Canal
Volga RiverSAMPLE Lighthouse Lock No. 9 Lock No. 13
1953 P12.5 1806 544 1r.
Lock No. 15 Tsimlyanskaya Dam M. S. Iosif Stalin Hydro-electric Station
1953 35th Anniversary of “Komsomol” (Russian Youth Organisation)
Lomonosov University Four Medals and and Students “Komsomol” Badge
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1953 36th Anniversary 1953 50th Anniversary of Russian Revolution 1917-1953 of Russian Communist Party
SAMPLE Peoples of the Lenin and Stalin in Lenin Medallion USSR Smolny Institute 1917
1953 Views of Leningrad
1953 P12.5 1815 550 40k.
Lenin Statue Lenin Statue Admiralty Building Admiralty Building
Peter 1 Monument, Decembrists’ Square Peter 1 Monument, Decembrists’ Square Smolny Institute
Smolny Institute
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1953 50th Anniv of Second Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party Congress 1954 125th Death Anniversary 1953 Peace Propaganda of Griboedov (Author)
1954 P12.5 1822 554 SAMPLE40k.
Lenin and Book Pioneers and Moscow A. S. Griboedov “What is to be Done?” University Model (1795-1829)
1954 50th Birth Anniversary 1954 General Election of Chkalov (Aviator)
Kremlin, Moscow V. P. Chkalov (1904-1938)
1954 First Death Anniv of Stalin
Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, still flock to the Kremlin to praise him for making his country a world power, while experts and politicians puzzle and despair over his enduring popularity. Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Communists and other hardliners credit him with leading the country to victory in World War II and turning it into a nuclear superpower, while critics condemn his repressions.
Historians estimate that more than 800,000 people were executed during the purges that peaked dur- ing the Great Terror in the late 1930s, and millions more died of harsh labour and cruel treatment in the giant Gulag prison camp system, mass starvation in Ukraine and southern Russia and deportations of ethnic minorities. An opinion survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment found Stalin has remained widely admired in Russia and other ex-Soviet nations despite his repressions. Its authors noted that public attitudes to the dictator have improved during Russian President Vladimir Putin's rule, as the Kremlin has found Stalin's image useful in its efforts to tighten control. Joseph V. Stalin (1979-1953)
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1954 30th Death Anniv of Lenin
SAMPLE
Lenin in Smolny Institute Lenin 1954 Cottage Museum (Lenin’s home), (1924-1954) Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk)
Lenin Proclaims Soviet Regime Lenin with Students at to Workers Kazan University
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1954 300th Anniversary of Reunion of Ukraine with Russia
SAMPLESupreme Soviet Buildings in T. G. Shevchenko State Opera House, Kiev Kiev and Moscow Memorial, Kharkov
Shevchenko University, Kiev Bogdan Chmielnitsky Flags of RSFSR and Academy of Sciences, Kiev Memorial, Kiev Ukrainian SSR
Shevchenko Monument, “Pereyaslavskaya Rada” - Chmielnitsky Order of Bogdan Kanev proclaiming reunion of Ukraine Chmielnitsky and Russia, 1654
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1954 Sports
1954 P12.5 1846 561 40k.
SAMPLERunning Yachting Cycling
Swimming Hurdling
Mountaineering Basketball Skiing
Soviet Sports “Wars”
The USSR considered the Olympic Games bourgeois and anti-Communist until Stalin changed his mind when suddenly a need to beat the West festered a demand for young athletes, a demand for victory. In the early 1950s, Stalin launched a massive Soviet sports program to demonstrate to the world that communism was superior to capitalism. The Soviet Union made a strategic deci- sion to support the development of sport sciences in order to assure athletic dominance at major world events and the Olympic games. Huge psychological pressure was put on young athletes to succeed; the government was weak if they were weak just as in war. Eventually premier Soviet athletes came to learn a brutal truth - they performed not for themselves or their fans but for the state. From the 1950s until the late 1980s, the Soviet sports science industry was heavily financed and an enormous research infrastructure and multiple research data banks were developed. Each Olympic sport was meticulously studied and the informa- tion was processed through associated scientific research centres. Optimised systems were developed based on this accumu- lated knowledge. The models and algorithms made it possible to achieve desired individual results in various sports and events with an accuracy of 90 percent. Until recently, this information was kept “top secret” and extremely proprietary.
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1954 Agriculture
1954 P12.5 1853 561 40k.
Cattle Potato Cultivation Collective-Farm, SAMPLEHydro-electric Station
1954 50th Death Anniv of Checkhov (Writer)
1954 Rebuilding of Pulkov Observatory
A. P. Checkhov Bredikhin, Struve, Belopolsky (1860-1904) and Observatory
1954 150th Birth Anniversary of Glinka (Composer)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian com- poser to gain recognition within his own country, often regarded as father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music. “A Life for the Tsar” was the first of Glinka's operas. In his second, “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, the plot, based on the tale by Alexander Pushkin, was concocted in 15 minutes by Konstantin Bakhturin, a poet who was drunk at the time!
M. I. Glinka Glinka playing piano for Pushkin (1804-1857) and Zhukovsky
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1954 Agricultural Exhibition, Moscow
SAMPLEExhibition Emblem
1954 P12.5 1862 566 40k.
Agriculture Pavilion Cattle-breeding Pavilion Mechanisation Pavilion
Exhibition Entrance Main Pavilion
All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) was opened in 1939 in the northern suburbs of Moscow not far from Yaroslavskoye Shosse. This display of the fruits of Socialism and showpiece of Stalinist monumental art was intended to open two years earlier, but was delayed by the purging of many of its leading participants. The exhibition functioned until 1941 when the war broke out. The exhibition was reopened in 1954 with some eighty pavilions spread over 578 acres, but its concept had greatly changed. New pavilions in Stalin Empire style were built to demonstrate achievements of the Soviet people in building of the Communist socie- ty and friendship between different republics constituting the Soviet Union. Each republic had its own pavilion to demonstrate the best production samples and to share science and engineering ideas.
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1954 50th Birth Anniv of Ostrovsky (Blind Writer)
“How the Steel Was Tempered”
Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist real- ist writer. He is best known for his renowned novel “How the Steel Was Tempered”, on the Russian Civil War - Pavel Korchagin is the central character. The first part of the novel was published serially in 1932 in the maga- zine “Young Guard”. The second part of the novel appeared in the same magazine from January to May, 1934. The novel was published in 1936 in book form in a heavily edited version that conformed to the rules of SAMPLEsocialist realism. N. A. Ostrovsky (1904-1936)
1954 Centenary of Defence of Sevastopol
Heroes of Sevastopol
Monument Admiral Nakhimov 1802-1855
1954 37th Anniversary of October Revolution
1954 150th Anniversary of Kazan University
1954 P12.5 1870 570 40k.
Marx, Engels, Lenin Kazan University and Stalin
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1954 50th Birth Anniv of Salomea Neris (Lithuanian Poet)
Controversy surrounds her involvement with the Soviet occupation. She was appointed as a deputy to the Soviet- backed "People's Seimas" and was a member of the delegation to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to 1954 75th Birth Anniversary of Stalin request Lithuania be accepted into the Soviet Union.
1954 P12 1878 573 SAMPLE 1r.
Salomea Neris (1904-1945) Nėris was requested to write a poem in honour of Stalin and was subsequently awarded the Stalin Prize (posthumously, in 1947). After that, she wrote more verses Joseph Stalin on the theme, as encouraged by the USSR Communist (1879-1953) Party officials. She spent World War II in the Russian SFSR.
1954 Agriculture
1954 P12.5 1874 572 40k.
Cultivating Vegetables Tractor and Plough
Harvesting Flax Harvesting Sunflowers
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1954 125th Birth Anniversary of Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks amongst the great 19th-century key- board virtuosos. He became most famous for his series of histori- cal recitals - seven enormous, consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music. Rubinstein played this series throughout Russia and Eastern Europe and in the United States when he toured there.
A. G. Rubinstein (1829-1894) 1955 International Conference of Postal and Municipal Workers, SAMPLE Vienna 1955 AIR 1955 Birth Centenary of Garshin (Writer)
1955 P12 x 12.5 1881 576 1r.
Globe and Clasped Hands
Ilyushin II-12 over Ilyushin II-12 over Coastline Landscape
V. M. Garshin (1855-1888)
Nikita Khrushchev Russian Leader from 1955-1964 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domes- tic policy. His party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
The Cold War (1947-1989) was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others), and powers in the Eastern Bloc, (the Soviet Union (USSR) and its allies in Warsaw Pact). It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Korea and Vietnam. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences over capitalism and democracy.
The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation of an all-out nuclear World War III. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to the total destruction of the attacker - the doctrine of mutually assured destruction or MAD.
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1955 50th Death Anniv of Savitsky (Painter)
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1955 50th Death Anniversary of Savitsky (Painter) SAMPLE
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1955 10th Anniversary of Russo-Polish Friendship Agreement
Pushkin and MickiewiczSAMPLE“Brotherhood in Arms” Palace of Culture and Science, Copernicus - Painting by Monument, Warsaw Warsaw Jan Matejko (in Medallion)
1955 85th Birth Anniversary of Lenin
Lenin and Shushenskoe Lenin in Secret Lenin and Krupskaya at Gorky Printing House
1955 150th Death Anniversary of Schiller (German Poet) 1955 25th Death Anniversary of Mayakovsky (Poet) 1955 AIR
1955 P12.5 1894 582 2r. blue
Ilyushin II-12 over Globe Friedrich von Schiller Vladimir Mayakovsky (1759-1805) (1893-1930)
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1955 All-Union Agricultural Fair
SAMPLERSFSR Byelorussian SSR Tadzhik SSR All-Russia Exhibition Centre
All-Russia Exhibition Centre (Всероссийский выставочный центр - called also: "All-Russian Exhibition Center") is a permanent general-purpose trade show in Moscow, Russia. The exhibition was established February 17, 1935 as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) (Russian: Всесоюзная Сельско-Хозяйственная Выставка Vsesoyuznaya Selsko-Khozyaystvennaya Vystavka). An existing site (then known as Ostankino Park, a country territory recently incorporated into the city limits), was approved in August 1935. The master plan by Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was approved in April 1936, and the first show season was announced to begin in July 1937.
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However, plans did not materialise, and three weeks before the deadline Joseph Stalin personally postponed the exhibition by one year (to August 1938). It seemed that this time everything would be ready on time, but again the builders failed to complete their work, and regional authorities failed to select and deliver proper exhibits. Some pavilions and the 1937 entrance gates by Oltarzhevsky were torn down to be replaced with more appropriate structures (most pavilions were criticised for having no windows).
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According to Oltarzhevsky's original plan, all of the pavilions were to be constructed from wood. In 1938, a government commission examined the construction and decided that it did not suit the ideological direction of the moment. The exhibition was considered too modest and too temporary. Oltarzhevsky was arrested, together with the Commissar for Agriculture and his staff, and eventually released in 1943. Later, he worked on the 1947-1953 Moscow skyscraper project. SAMPLE
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As a result, in August 1938 Nikita Khrushchev, speaking at the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union assembly, declared that the site is not ready, and the opening was extended to August 1939. It opened indeed August 1, 1939, and worked in 8AM - 11PM mode until October 25 (40,000 daily attendance). 1940 and 1941 seasons followed; after the German invasion, July 1, 1941 the exhibition was closed - until the end of World War II.
In October, 1948 the State ordered to renew the Exhibition, starting with the 1950 season. Again, the opening was postponed more than once; the first post-war season opened in 1954 (still as Agricultural exhibition). In 1956 season the planners set aside an Industrial area within the main territory; more restructuring and rebuilding followed.
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1955 All-Union Agricultural Fair SAMPLE
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1955 All-Union Agricultural Fair SAMPLE
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1955 All-Union Agricultural Fair SAMPLE
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1955 Bicentenary of Moscow Lomonosov State University
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1955 Bicentenary of Moscow Lomonosov State University
SAMPLELomonosov University
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1955 200th Birth Anniversary of Venetsianov (Painter)
A. G. Venetsianov (self-portrait) and SAMPLE“The Labours of Spring”
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1955 60th Anniv of Popov’s Radio Discoveries (Radio Pioneer)
1955 Birth Centenary of Lyadov (Composer)
1955 P12.5 x 12 1916 588 40k. SAMPLEpale blue A. Lyadov Aleksandr S. Popov (1855-1914) (1859-1906)
1955 38th Anniversary of Russian Revolution
“Capture of Winter Palace” Lenin Lenin Speaking to Revolutionaries
1955 AIR Opening of North Pole Scientific Stations
1955 P12 x 12.5 1922 T591 2r.
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1955 25th Anniv of Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. The rapid development of Magnitogorsk stood at the forefront of Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans in the 1930s. It was a showpiece of Soviet achieve- ment. Huge reserves of iron ore in the area made it a prime location to build a steel plant capable of challenging its Western rivals. However, a large propor- tion of the workforce, as ex-peasants, typically had few industrial skills and lit- tle industrial experience. To solve these issues, several hundred foreign spe- cialists arrived to direct the work, including a team of architects headed by the German Ernst May. Magnitogorsk
SAMPLE1955 North Pole Scientific Stations
1955 P12.5 x 12 1925 593 60k.
Mil Mi-4 Helicopter Mil Mi-4 Helicopter Meteorologist Taking over Station over Station Observations
Since 1954 Soviet North Pole ("NP") manned drifting ice stations worked continuously, with one to three such stations operating simultaneously each year. The total distance drifted between 1937 and 1973 was over 80,000 kilometres. “North Pole-22” is par- ticularly notable for its record drift, lasting nine years. On June 28, 1972 the ice floe with North Pole-19 passed over the North Pole for the first time ever. During such long-term observations by "NP" stations, a lot of important discoveries in physical geography were made, valuable conclusions on regularities and the connection between processes in the polar region of the Earth's hydros- phere and atmosphere were obtained. Some of the most important discoveries were finding the deep-water Lomonosov Ridge, which crosses the Arctic Ocean, other large features of the ocean bottom's relief, the discovery of two systems of the drift (circu- lar and "wash-out"), the fact of cyclones' active penetration into the Central Arctic. The last Soviet "NP" station, North Pole-31, was closed in July 1991.
1956 10th Death Anniv of Krylov 1955 150th Death Anniversary (Mathematician/ Maritime Engineer) of Shubin (Sculptor)
1955 P12.5 1928 594 1r.
Fedor Ivanovich Shubin (self-portrait) A. N. Krylov (1740-1805) (1863-1945)
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1955 North Pole Scientific Stations SAMPLE
Scientific Observations
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1956 International Horse Racing
1956 5th Spartacist Games
1956 P12 x 12.5 1931 596 60k.
Trotting Racing SAMPLERacing Badge and Stadium
1956 Foundation of Atomic Power Station of Russian Academy of Sciences
1956 P12.5 x 12 1936 598 1r.
Atomic Power Station Top of Atomic Reactor Atomic Power Station
1956 20th Communist Party Congress
1956 150th Birth Anniversary of Khatchatur Abovyan 1956 50th Anniversary of 1905 Revolution
1956 P12 1937 599 40k.
Kh. Abovyan Statue of Lenin, Revolutionaries (Armenian Writer) Kremlin and Flags with Red Flag 1809-1848* (*date disappeared)
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1956 Agricultural Exhibition
1956 P12.5 1941 602 1r. SAMPLEUral North East Central Black Soil Region
Leningrad Moscow-Tula-Kaluga-Ryazan-Bryansk Bashkir
Far East Tatar Central Regions
Young Naturalists North Caucasus Siberia
Volga
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1956 Kasatkin Commemoration (Painter)
1956 Arkhipov Commemoration (Painter)
1956 P12.5 1956 604 SAMPLE 1r. N. A. Kasatkin A. E. Arkhipov and Painting A. E. Arkhipov and Painting (1859-1930) “On the Oka River” “On the Oka River”
1956 220th Birth Anniv of Kulibin (Inventor)
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin was a Russian mechanic, optician and inventor. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a trad- er. From childhood, Kulibin displayed an interest in constructing mechanical tools. Soon, clock mechanisms became a special interest of his. His many inventions included a searchlight, screw- drive elevator, self-rolling carriage (with flywheel, brake, gear box, and bearing), searchlight optical telegraph, and a mechani- cal artificial leg. His realisations as well as his prolific imagination inspired the work of many.
I. P. Kulibin (1735-1818)
1956 Vassili Grigorievitch Perov Commemoration
“Fowler” V. G. Perov (self-portrait) “Hunters Resting” (1833-1882) Artist
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1956 86th Birth Anniv of Lenin 1956 Death Centenary of Lobachevsky (Mathematician)
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1956 Red Cross and Red Crescent 1956 AIR Opening of North Pole Scientific Station No. 6
1956 P12.5 x 12 (1963 P12.5) 1964 609 40k.
Student Nurses Nurse and Textile Factory Scientific Station
1956 Death Anniversary (1955) 1956 Arsenev of Dr. Sechenov (Physiologist) (Explorer and Writer)
I. M. Sechenov V. K. Arsenev (1829-1905) (1872-1930)
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1956 Birth Centenary (1955) of Michurin (Soviet Biologist)
1956 P12.5 x 12 1970 613 1r.
I. V. Michurin Michurin with Pioneers I. V. Michurin (1855-1935)SAMPLE (1855-1935)
1956 125th Birth Anniv (1955) 1956 70th Birth Anniversary of Savrasov (Painter) of Kirov (Statesman)
1956 Krupskaya Commemoration (Lenin’s Wife)
A. K. Savrasov N. P. Krupskaya S. M. Kirov (1830-1897) (1869-1939) (1886-1934)
1956 Blok 1956 125th Birth Anniv of Leskov Commemoration (Poet) (Writer)
1956 P12 x 12.5 1976 618 1r.
A. A. Blok N. S. Leskov (1880-1921) (1831-1895)
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1956 25th Anniv of Rostov 1956 Fedotova Agricultural Machinery Works Commemoration (Actress)
Factory Building G. N. Fedotova SAMPLE(1846-1925)
1956 3rd World 1956 Cent of Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow Parachute-jumping Competition
P. M. Tretyakov “Rooks have Arrived” Parachutist Landing
1956 Builders’ Day
1956 P12.5 1997 624 60k.
Construction Work Plant Construction Work Dam Construction
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1956 All-Union Spartacist Games, Moscow
Relay-race
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Diving Cycle Racing Fencing Football
1956 P12.5 x 12 1990 622 40k.
Flag and Stadium Tennis Medal
Gymnastics Boxing Netball
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1956 26th Death Anniversary of I. E. Repin (Artist)
Self-portrait and “Volga River Boatmen” “Reply of the Cossacks to SAMPLESultan Mahmoud IV”
1956 160th Death Anniversary of Burns (Scottish Poet) 1956 Birth Centenary of Franko (1st Issue) (Ukrainian Poet and Writer)
1956 P12.5 Recess 1956 2002 627 P12.5 40k. 2004 628 sepia and blue 1r.
Robert Burns Ivan Franko (1759-1796) (1856-1916)
1956 148th Birthday of Aivazov (Azerbaijan Collective Farmer)
1956 Lesya Ukrainka Commemoration (Ukrainian Writer)
L. Ukrainka Makmud Aivazov 2006a 629 with corrected (1871-1913) inscription “Makmud” bluish green
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1956 900th Birth Anniversary of Nestor 1956 150th Birth Anniversary (Russian Historian/ Monk-manuscriptmaker) of Ivanov (Painter)
1956 P12 x 12.5 2008 630 SAMPLE1r. Statue of Nestor A. A. Ivanov (1806-1858)
1956 Agriculture
Feeding Poultry Harvesting
1956 P12.5 x 12 2014 632 40k.
Gathering Maize Maize Field Tractor Station
Cattle Grazing “Agriculture and Industry”
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1956 Cultural Anniversaries (World Famous People)
1956 P12.5 2018 633 40k. bluish green
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Benjamin Franklin - Journalist, George Bernard Shaw Sesshu-Toyo Oda Rembrandt Harmenszoon publisher, author, scientist, Irish Playwright Japanese Painter van Rijn - Painter inventor (1706-1790) (1856-1950) (1420-1506) (1606-1669)
1956 Soviet Scientific Antarctic Expedition 1956 Julia Zhemaite Commemoration 1956 125th Birth Anniversary (Lithuanian Novelist) of Bredikhin (Astronomer)
J. Zhemaite Fedor A. Bredikhin (1845-1921) (1831-1904) Mirnyi Base and Supply Ship Lena
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1956 75th Birth Anniv of Kotovsky (Military Commander) 1956 30th Anniv of Shatura Electric Power Station
Shatura is a town and the adminis- trative centre of Shatursky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on Lake Svyatoye 124 kilometres (77 mi) east of Moscow. A settlement on place of modern Shatura has been known to exist since 1423. In 1917, peat deposits started to be mined in the vicinity. In 1918, construction of the first peat-fueled electric Shatura Power Station started near the SAMPLEvillage of Torbeyevka. Shatura Electric Power Station
G. I. Kotovsky (1881-1925)
1956 225th Birth Anniv of Field Marshall Suvorov (Great Russian Military Commander)
1956 P12.5 2032 638 1r.
Count A. V. Suvorov (1730-1800)
1956 225th Anniv of First Balloon 1956 30th Death Anniversary 1956 Birth Centenary of Shokalsky Flight by Kryaktutni of Vasnetsov (Artist) (Oceanographer & Geodesist)
Kryaktutni’s Ascent A. M. Vasnetsov and Y. M. Shokalsky “Dawn at the Voskresenski Gate” (1856-1940)
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1956 Birth Cent of Franko (2nd Issue) 1956 Kalidasa Commemoration (Ukrainian Poet and Writer) (Indian Sanskrit Poet)
1956 Bicentenary of State Theatre, Leningrad SAMPLE Ivan Franko F. G. Volkov (actor) and Indian Temple and Books (1856-1916) State Theatre 1st Century BC Poet
1956-57 Russian Writers
Lomonosov and Gorky and Scene St Petersburg University from “Mother”
Pushkin and Statue of Rustavely and Episode from Tolstoy and Scene from Peter the Great, Leningrad “The Knight in the Tiger Skin” “War and Peace”
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1956 275th Birth Anniversary of Bering (Danish Navigator and Explorer)
Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681 in Horsens, Denmark on Bering Island, Russia, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering) was an explorer and officer in the Russian Navy. He is known for his two explorations of the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge have since all been (posthumously) named in his honour.
Vitus Bering and Routes SAMPLEof his Voyages
1957 50th Anniversary 1957 Death Centenary of Glinka of Death of Mendeleev (Chemist) (Composer)
1957 P12 x 12.5 1957 2048B 647 P12.5 40k. 2050 648 unissued overprint 1r. “VIII Mendeleev Kongres 1958”
Dmitri I. Mendeleev Mikhail I. Glinka Scene from (1834-1907) (1804-1857) “Ivan Susanin”
1957 All-Union Festival of Soviet Youth 1957 23rd World Ice Hockey Championships, Moscow
1957 P12.5 2054 650 60k.
Youth Festival Championship Ice Hockey Player Goal Keeper Emblem Emblem
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1957-60 Russian Wildlife
Grey PartridgeSAMPLEBlack Grouse Polar Bear Sika Deer
1960 P12.5 2059a 653 20k.
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Mallard European Bison Elk Sable
Eurasian Red Squirrel Yellow-throated Marten Hazel Grouse Mute Swan
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1957 6th World Youth Festival, Moscow (1st Issue) 1957 Cent of Red Proletariat Plant
1957 P12 x 12.5 2055 651 40k.
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1957-58 Regional Handicrafts
Moscow Woodcarving Woman Engraving Vase Vologda Lace-making
1958 P12.5 2067b 654 40k.
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1957 Birth Centenary of Plekhanov 1957 Birth Centenary (Political Philosopher & Marxist) of Bakh (Biochemist)
1957 250th Anniv of Birth of Euler (Swiss Mathematician and Physicist) SAMPLE Georgi V. Plekhanov Leonid Euler Aleksei N. Bakh (1856-1918) (1707-1783) (1857-1946)
1957 87th Birth Anniversary of Lenin
1957 P12 x 12.5 2072 658 40k.
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1957 300th Death Anniv of William Harvey 1957 125th Birth Anniversary (Discoverer of Circulation of Blood) of Balakirev (Composer)
1957 “The Tale of the Host of Igor” (Russia’s Oldest Literary Work)
Dr. William Harvey 12th Century Narrator/ Folksinger M. A. Balakirev English Physician (1836-1910)
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1957 Centenary of Publication 1957 Cultivation of Virgin Soil of the Magazine Kolokol
“Kolokol” (Russian: Колокол, lit. "bell") was the first Russian censorship-free weekly newspaper in Russian and French languages, published by Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogaryov in London (1857–1865) and Geneva (1865–1867). Circulation – up to 2500 copies. Initially, the publishers viewed Kolokol as a supple- ment to a literary and socio-political almanac “Polyarnaya Zvezda” (Polar Star), but soon it would become the leader of the Russian censorship-free press. Founders SAMPLENewspapers Pod sud (To Trial; A. I. Herzen and N. P. Ogarev 1859–1862) and Obshcheye veche (General Veche; 1862–1864) were pub- lished as supplements to the Kolokol. Agricultural Medal
1957 250th Anniversary of Leningrad
1957 P12.5 x 12 2080 664 40k. deep bluish violet
Monument Nevsky Prospect, Lenin Statue Leningrad
1957 P12.5 x 12 2082 551 1r. brown-black/turquoise optd.
Peter 1 Monument, Smolny Institute Decembrists’ Square
The city of Leningrad was founded on 16 May of 1703 with the construction of the fortress of Petropavlovsk. Originally the city was called Saint Petersburg, but with the outbreak of the Great War the name was changed to Petrograd. In 1924 the city was renamed Leningrad in honor of V. Lenin. The city name reverted back to Saint Petersburg following the collapse of the Soviet State in 1992. It was the capital of Russia from 1712 to 1918. The city was also named a 'Hero City' on May 1st 1945 and had received two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, and the Order of the Red Banner.
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1957 6th World Youth Festival, Moscow (2nd Issue)
1957 P12 x 12.5 2085A 666 25k.
Youths with Banner SAMPLESculptor with Statue Youths with Banner Dancers Festival Emblem and Fireworks
1957 1957 1957 Imperf. Imperf. Imperf. 2084B 666 2084aB 666 2087B 666 10k. 20k. 1r.
Youths with Banner Sculptor with Statue Festival Emblem and Fireworks
The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students
The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students was opened on 28 July 1957, in Moscow, Soviet Union. The festival attracted 34,000 peo- ple from 130 countries. This became possible after the bold political changes initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. It was the first World Festival of Youth and Students held in the Soviet Union, which was opening its doors for the first time to the world. The Khrushchev reforms, known as Khrushchev's Thaw, resulted in some changes in the Soviet Union. Foreigners could come for a visit, and Russians were allowed to meet foreigners, albeit only in groups under supervision. However, that did not stop people from making friends. Russian foreign language students volunteered as interpreters.
1957 Birth Cent of Lyapunov (Mathematician) 1957 19th-century Writers
A. M. Lyapunov (1857-1918) T. G. Shevchenko and Scene N. G. Chernyshevsky and Scene from “Katharina” from “What is to be Done?”
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1957 250th Anniv of Birth of Fielding (Playwright and Novelist)
1957 10th International Cycle Race SAMPLE Henry Fielding Racing Cyclists (1707-1754)
1957-58 International Geophysical Year (1st Issue)
Rocket
Interior of Observatory Meteor in Sky
The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was an international scientific project that lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. It marked the end, after Joseph Stalin's death, of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West was seriously interrupted. 67 countries participated, although one notable exception was mainland China, which was protesting against the participation of the Republic of China (Taiwan). East and West agreed to nominate the Belgian Marcel Nicolet as secretary general of the associated international organization. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determina- tions (precision mapping), meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity.
Malakhit Radar Scanner Research Schooner "Zarya" Northern Lights and and Balloon (geo-magnetism) C-180 Camera
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1957 Third International Youth Games Athletes from 49 countries gathered in Moscow for the Third International Friendly Youth Games.
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1957 P12.5 2098 672 40k.
Young Athletes
Moscow Stadium Javelin-Thrower
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1957 Russian Successes at Summer Olympic Games, Melbourne
1957 P12 x 12.5 2103 673 SAMPLE25k. Throwing the Javelin Running Gymnastics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the “Games of the XVI Olympiad”, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1956, apart from equestrian events, which were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden. Equestrian could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. This was the second Olympics not to be held entirely in one coun- try, the first being the 1920 Summer Olympics. The 1956 Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America. The Soviet Union won 98 medals in total - 37 Gold, 29 Silver and 32 Bronze.
1957 P12 x 12.5 2105 673 40k.
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1957 75th Birth Anniversary of Kupala (Poet)
Yanka Kupala was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, a Belarusian poet and writer. Kupala is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century. Kupala's first serious literary attempt was Ziarno, a Polish-language sentimental poem which he completed around 1903–1904 under the pseudonym "K-a." His first Belarusian-language work ("Мая доля") was dated July 15, 1904. Kupala's first pub- lished poem, "Мужык" ("Peasant"), was published approximately a year later, appearing in Belarusian in the Russophone Belarusian newspaper Severo-Zapadnyi Krai (Northwestern Krai) on May 11, 1905.
Yanka Kupala (1882-1942)
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1957 Sixth World Youth Festival (3rd Issue)
1957 P12.5 2109 675 40k.
Stadium Bolshoi State Theatre
1957 International Philatelic Exhibition, Moscow KremlinSAMPLE Moscow State University
Lenin Library
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1957 “Defence of Peace”
1957 Birth Cent of Clara Zetkin (German Revolutionary)
1957 P12 x 12.5 2114 677 1r.
SAMPLEDove of Peace Encircling Globe C. Zetkin (1857-1933)
1957 Death Cent of Pierre Beranger (French Poet and Song Writer)
1957 Cent of Krengholm 1957 Cent of Krasny Textile Factory, Narva, Estonia Vyborzhetz Plant, Leningrad
Krengholm Factory, P. Beranger Factory Plant and Narva (1780-1857) Statue of Lenin
1957 50th Death Anniv of Stasov (Art Critic)
1957 International Correspondence Week
1957 P12.5 2120 681 1957 1r. P12 x 12.5 2122 682 60k.
V. V. Stasov Carrier Pigeon with Letter (1824-1906)
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1957 Birth Centenary of Tsiolkovsky 1957 Fourth World Trade Unions (Rocket and Astronautics Pioneer) Congress, Leipzig
K. E. Tsiolkovsky Congress Emblem SAMPLE(1857-1935) 1957 40th Anniversary of Russian Revolution (First Issue)
1957 P12 x 12.5 2126A 685 40k.
Students Railway Worker Portrait of Lenin Lenin and Workers Harvester on Banner with Banners
1957 1957 1957 Imperf. Imperf. Imperf. 2124B 685 2127B 685 2128B 685 1957 10k. 40k. 40k. Imperf. 2129B 685 60k.
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1957 40th Anniversary of Russian Revolution (Second and Third Issues)
Workers & Emblem Estonia Uzbekistan RSFSR Belorussia (Ukraine) SAMPLE
Lithuania Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia
1957 P12 x 12.5 2139 686 40k.
Kirghizia Turkmenistan Tadzhikistan Kazakhstan
1957 P12.5 2146 687 60k.
Latvia Moldavia Lenin Lenin at Desk
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1957 40th Anniversary of Russian Revolution SAMPLE
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1957 40th Anniversary of Russian Revolution SAMPLE
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1958 Centenary of First Russian Postage Stamp SAMPLE
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1958 Stamp Cent Philatelic 1958 50th Death Anniversary Exhibition, Leningrad of Chigorin (Chess Player) 1958 850th Anniversary of Town of Vladimir
1958 P12 x 12.5 2248 742 60k
SAMPLEVladimir Gateway Street Scene in Vladimir Facade of Exhibition M. I. Chigorin Building (1850-1908)
1958-60 Definitive Issue
Farm Girl Architect Furnaceman Farm Girl Architect Furnaceman Furnaceman (Recess P12.5) (Recess P12.5) (Recess P12.5) (Litho P12 x 12.5) (Litho P12 x 12.5) (Litho P12 x 12.5) (Litho P12 x 12.5)
1958 40th Anniversary of Red Cross and Crescent Societies 1958 69th Death Anniv of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Writer)
1958 Bicentenary of Birth of Kapnist (Poet)
Red Cross Nurse & Patient
M. Saltykov-Shchedrin and Scene from his Works 1958 P12 x 12.5 2255 745 40k
V. Kapnist (1758-1823) Convalescent Home
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1958 Republican Capitals
Yerevan, ArmeniaSAMPLEBaku, Azerbaijan Minsk, Byelorussia
Tbilisi, Georgia Tallin, Estonia Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Frunze, Kirgizia Riga, Latvia Vilnius, Lithuania
Kishinev, Moldavia Moscow, RSFSR Stalinabad, Tadzhikistan
Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan Kiev, Ukraine Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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1958 1100th Birth Anniv of Rudaki (Tadzhik Poet & Musician)
1958 Asian-African Writers’ 1958 1500th Anniv of Founding Conference, Tashkent of Tbilisi, Georgian Capital
OpenSAMPLE Book, Torch, Rudaki Statue of Founder Lyre and Flowers (859-c.941) Vakhtang I. Gorgasal
1958 40th Anniv of Young Communists League
Young Revolutionary Riveters
1958 Soldier P12 x 12.5 Students 2280 753 20k
Harvester Builder
During the revolution, the Bolsheviks did not display any interest in establishing or maintaining a youth division. However, by 1918 the first Komsomol Congress met with the patronage of the Bolshevik Party, despite the two organisations having not entirely coincident membership or beliefs. By the time of the second Congress, a year later, however, the Bolsheviks had, in effect, acquired control of the organisation, and it was soon formally established as the youth division of the Communist party.
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1958 25th Anniversary of Industrial Plants
1958 P12 x 12.5 2277 752 40k
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Ural Machine-construction Zaporozhe Foundry Plant SAMPLEPlant 1958 41st Anniversary of October Revolution
1958 Tenth Anniv of Declaration of Human Rights
1958 P12.5 2286 754 1r
Marx and Lenin Lenin with Student, Peasant “Human Rights” Torch, Wreath and Miner and Family
1958 Kuan Han-ching Commemoration 1958 21st Death Anniversary 1958 30th Death Anniversary (Chinese Playwright) of Ordzhonikidze of Sergei Yesenin (Poet)
S. A. Yesenin Kuan Han-ching G. K. Ordzhonikidze (1895-1925) (1241-1320) (Georgian Statesman) (1886-1937)
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1958 350th Birth Anniv 1958 40th Anniversary 1958 Fuzuli Commemoration of John Milton (Poet) of Byelorussian Republic (Azerbaijan Poet)
SAMPLEJ. Milton Lenin’s Statue, Fuzuli (1608-1674) Minsk (1480-1556)
1958 Birth Centenary 1958 Death Centenary of Eleonora Duse 1958 All-Union Census, 1959 of K. Rulye (Naturalist)
E. Duse Census Emblem Census Official with K. F. Rulye (Italian Actress) Worker’s Family (1814-1858) (1859-1924)
1958 All-Union Industrial Exhibition
Atomic Ice-breaker, Class E3 Diesel-electric Lenin Freight Locomotive
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1959 21st Communist Party Congress, Moscow
1959 P12 x 12.5 2301 766 60k.
SAMPLELenin, Red Banner and Workers beside Lenin Moon Rocket and Kremlin View Hydro-electric Plant Sputniks
1959 350th Birth Anniversary 1959 Women’s World Ice Skating 1959 150th Birth Anniversary of Evangelista Torricelli (Physicist) Championships, Sverdlovsk of Charles Darwin (Naturalist)
1959 P12.5 x 12 2305 768 40k.
E. Torricelli Ice Skater C. Darwin (1608-1647) (1809-1882)
1959 Russian (Unofficial) Victory in World Basketball Championships, Chile 1959 Birth Cent of Gamaleya 1959 Birth Cent of Sholem (Microbiologist) Aleichem (Jewish Writer)
Basketball (overprinted #1851) N. Gamaleya S. Aleichem (1859-1949) (1859-1916)
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1959 Birth Cent of Selma Lagerlof 1959 Birth Bicent of Robert Burns 1959 50th Birth Anniv (Swedish Writer) of Cvirka (Lithuanian Poet)
S. SAMPLELagerlof R. Burns P. Cvirka (1858-1940) (1759-1796) (1909-1947) (overprinted #2002)
1959 Birth Centenary of Popov (Radio Pioneer) 1959 Joliot-Curie Commemoration (Scientist)
1959 P12 x 12.5 2315 777 60k
Popov and Polar Rescue by Popov and Radio Tower Ice-breaker Ermak
Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic radio waves. In 1894 he built the first radio receiver, a version of the coherer. Further refined as a lightning detector, it was presented to the Russian F. Joliot-Curie Physical and Chemical Society on May 7, 1895 - the day has been (1900-1958) celebrated in the Russian Federation as ‘Radio Day’.
1959 Orbeliani Commemoration 1959 Tercent of Birth of Ogata Korin (Georgian Writer) (Japanese Artist)
1959 Saadi Commemoration (Persian Poet)
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi “Hero Riding Dolphin” (1658-1725) c. 1210-1290
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1959 Various Writers
Anton Chekhov Ivan Krylov SAMPLE(1860-1904) (1769-1844)
1959 P12 x 12.5 2318 746 40k.
Aleksandr Ostrovsky Aleksandr Griboedov Nikolai Gogol (1823-1886) (1826-1871) (1809-1852)
Sergei Aksakov Aleksei Koltsov (1791-1859) (1809-1842)
1959 Launching of Moon Rocket
1959 P12 x 12.5 2333 782 40k
Trajectory of Moon Rocket Preliminary Route of Rocket after Launching
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1959 Russian Liners
Sovetsky Soyuz Feliks Dzerzhinsky
1959 Rossiya SAMPLEP12 x 12.5 Baltika 2330 778 60k
Kooperatsiya Mikhail Kalinin
1959 90th Birth Anniv of Cachin 1959 10th Anniversary 1959 89th Birth Anniv of Lenin (French Communist) of World Peace Movement
Lenin M. Cachin Youths with Banner (1869-1958)
1959 Death Cent of Von Humboldt 1959 150th Death Anniv of Haydn (German Naturalist) (Austrian Composer)
A. von Humboldt F. J. Haydn (1769-1859) (1732-1809)
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1959 Tourist Publicity
1959 P12.5 x 12 2340 788 40k
Canoeing
Mountain SAMPLEClimbing Map-reading Cross-country Skiing 1959 Russian Scientific, Technological and Cultural Exhibition, New York
1959 Cultural Celebrities
1959 P12 x 12.5 2344 789 40k.
Exhibition Emblem and New York Coliseum
Statue of I. Repin, Statue of Lenin, Statue of V. Mayakovsky, Moscow Ulyanovsk Moscow
1959 P12.5 x 12 2349 790 60k
Statue of A. Pushkin, Statue of Maksim Gorky, Statue of Tchaikovsky, Leningrad Moscow Moscow
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1959 Fisheries Protection
SAMPLEZander Northern Fur Seals Russian Sturgeon
1959 P12.5 2352 791 60k.
Common Whitefish Chum Salmon and Map
1959 Djalil Commemoration 1959 150th Birth Anniv of Louis Braille (Tartar Poet)
Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a sys- tem of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired. As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness; and as a young man, he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blind- ness and transformed the lives of millions. After two centuries, the braille system remains an invaluable tool of learning and communication for the blind.
L. Braille M. Djalil (1809-1852) (1906-1944)
1959 Second Russian Spartakiad
1959 P12.5 2358 794 60k.
Vaulting Running Athletes and Emblem Water Polo
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1959 Seven Year Plan
Chemist Spassky Tower, Builder’s Labourer Farm Girl SAMPLEHammer & Sickle
Machine-minder Tractor Driver Oil Technician Cloth Production
1959 P12.5 x 12 2367 796 40k.
Steel Worker Coal Miner Iron Moulder Power Station
Five and Seven-Year Soviet Plans
Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Russia’s ‘Five-Year Plan’, of which there were six imlemented up to 1957, was replaced by a Seven-Year Plan (1959–65), which fell far short of estimated increases in agricultural (especially wheat) production. The Seven-Year plan was considered the start of a longer period (20 years) devoted to the establishment of the material and technical basis of a Communist society. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw increased emphasis placed on consumer goods, and the 9th Five- Year Plan (1971–75) for the first time gave priority to light industry rather than heavy industry. The agricultural sector still grew far less than projected in the 10th (1976–80) and 11th (1981–85) Five-Year Plans, and overall economic performance was poor. The 12th and final Five-Year Plan (1986–90) projected increases in consumer goods and energy savings, but the economy began to slide, shrinking by 4% in 1990. The dissolution of the Soviet Union made the formation of a 13th Five-Year Plan a moot point.
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1959 2nd Intl. Trade Unions Conference
SAMPLEGlobe and Hands
1959 International Geophysical Year (2nd Issue)
1959 P12 x 12.5 2372 797 25k.
Glaciologist Oceanographic Antarctic Map, Camp and Observatory and Rocket Survey Ship Vityaz Emperor Penguin
1959 Industrial Training Scheme for School-leavers
1959 11th Cent of Novgorod
1959 P12.5 x 12 2376 799 1r.
Novgorod Schoolboys in Children at Workshop Night-school
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1959 All-Union Exhibition 1959 Tenth Anniversary of Chinese Peoples’ Republic
1959 P12.5 x 12 2379 801 40k.
Exhibition Emblem Russian and Chinese Russian Miner and SAMPLEStudents Chinese Foundryman
1959 International Correspondence Week 1959 225th Anniv of Mahtumkuli (Turkestan Writer)
1959 P12 x 12.5 2381 802 60k.
Postwoman
1959 Tenth Anniv of German Democratic Republic Mahtumkuli (1733-1782)
1959 Launching of Lunik 3 Rocket
Arms & Workers of the DDR
1959 P12 x 12.5 2384 804 60k.
Lunik 3’s Trajectory around the Moon
Town Hall, East Berlin
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1959 30th Anniversary of Tadzhikistan Republic
1959 42nd Anniversary October Revolution 1959 Visit of Russian Prime Minister to the USA SAMPLE Republican Arms and Emblems Red Square, Moscow Capitol, Washington and Kremlin, Moscow
1959 Military Sports
1959 P12.5 2390 809 25k.
Mil Mi-1 Helicopter Skin Diver Racing Motor Cyclist Parachutist
1959 15th Anniv of Hungarian Republic
1959 Landing of Russian Rocket on Moon
1959 1959 P12 x 12.5 P12 x 12.5 2394 810 2395 811 40k. 20k.
Track of Moon Rocket Diagram of Flight Trajectory Sandor Petofi (Poet) Liberty Monument, 1823-1849 Budapest
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1959 Voskresensky Commemoration (Chemist)
1959 Manolis Glezos Commemoration 1959 40th Anniv Russian Cavalry (Greek Communist)
M. GlezosSAMPLEA. Voskresensky “The Trumpeters of the (1922- ) (1809-1880) First Horse Army”
1959 Tourist Publicity
River Chusovaya Riza Lake, Caucasus River Lena
1959 P12.5 2405 814 60k.
Iskanderkuly Lake Coastal Region Lake Baikal Beluha Mountains, Altay
Khibinsky Mountains Gursuff Region, Crimea
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