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 6 U.S.S.R. Soviet Period 1980 - 1991
Currency: 100 Kopeks = 1 Rouble USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 13th Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid
1980 P12.5 x 12 4957 1910 6k.
SAMPLEFigure Skating Ice Hockey
Downhill Skiing
Speed Skating Luge
Cross-country Skiing
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 659 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 50th Anniversary of Mordovian ASSR of Russian Federation 1980 Birth Cent of Podvoisky (Revolutionary) SAMPLE N. I. Podvoisky (1880-1948) Industry and Agriculture, Coat of Arms of Mordovia
1980 22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow - Athletics (7th Series)
1980 P12.5 x 12 4963 1911 6k. + 3k.
Running Hurdling
High Jumping Long Jumping
Walking
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 660 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 Olympiada-80 “Tourism around the Golden Ring” (6th Series)
SAMPLE
Moscow Kremlin Moscow, Kalinin Prospect
1980 Birth Anniversaries of Soviet Artists
“Rainbow” A. K. Savrasov (1830-1897)
“On Harvest Summer” A. G. Venetsianov (1780-1847) “Old Yerevan” M. S. Saryan (1880-1972)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 661 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow - Athletics (8th Series)
SAMPLEPole Vaulting Discus Throwing
1980 P12.5 x 12 4975 1911 10k. + 5k.
Throwing the Javelin Throwing the Hammer Putting the Shot
Relay Racing
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 662 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 15th Anniversary of First Walk in Space
SAMPLE
Aleksei Leonov & Spaceship “Voskhod-2”
1980 Olympiada-80 “Tourism around the Golden Ring” (7th Series) 1980 60th Birth Anniversary of Georg Ots (Estonian Singer)
G. K. Ots (1920-1975) Leningrad, Admiralty Leningrad, Monument to the and St. Isaac's Cathedral Defenders of Leningrad
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 663 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1980 Intercosmos Space Programme
SAMPLE
Cosmonauts, “Salyut” - “Soyuz”, Complex and Emblem
1980 110th Birth Anniv of Lenin
1980 50th Anniversary of Order of Lenin
Order of Lenin
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 664 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Birth Cent of Bonch-Bruevich 1988 125th Anniversary (Radio Engineer) of International Red Cross
SAMPLE M. A. Bonch-Bruevich Nurse and Emblem (1888-1940)
1988 World Speed Skating Championships
Skater Label. Emblem of Speed Skating and Medeo Ice-rink
1988 500th Anniv of Frantsisk Skorina (Printer)
1988 Birth Cent of Makarenko 1988 Labour Day (Educationist and Writer)
A. S. Makarenko (1888-1939) Banners and Globe
Frantsisk Skorina (1485-1540)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 810 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Birth Cent of Kingisepp (Revolutionary) 1988 Centenary 1988 Birth Cent of Shaginyan of Russian Athletics (Writer)
Track and Athlete M. S. Shaginyan SAMPLE (1888-1982) V. E. Kingisepp
1988 Cosmonautics Day 1988 Victory (V.E.) Day
1988 40th Anniversary of USSR-Finland Friendship
State Flags, Kremlin Palace of Congresses and Finlandia Hall
"Victory" "Mir"; "Soyuz TM” Space (P. Krivonogov, 1948) Complex and "Progress” Spacecraft
1988 150th Anniversary of Sochi
Railway Station Building
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 811 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 118th Birth Anniversary of V. I. Lenin
SAMPLE
Lenin and Lenin Museum in Moscow; Lenin and Lenin Museum in Kiev Lenin and Lenin Museum in Leningrad; Lenin and Lenin Museum in Krasnojarsk
1988 Birth Cent of Akulov 1988 World Exhibition 1988 170th Birth Anniversary (Communist Party Official) EXPO-88 of Karl Marx
I. A. Akulov Exhibition Emblem Portrait of Karl Marx (Soviet Display)
1988 Perestroika (Reformation)
Workers and Soldiers Banner, Industrial Scenes and Worker
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 812 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 XV Winter Olympic Games, Soviet Medal Winners
1988 Birth Cent of Shvernik (Politician) SAMPLE
N. M. Shvernik (1888-1970)
Red overprint on margin "Sportsmen of USSR win 11 gold, 9 silver and 9 bronze medals"
1988 Hunting Dogs
Russian Borzoi Kirgizian Borzoi Russian Hound
1988 P11.5 5875 2374 20k.
Russian Spaniel East Siberian Husky
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 813 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Soviet-American 1988 Birth Cent of Kuibyshev 1988 Soviet-Bulgarian Summit in Moscow (Politician) Space Flight
State FlagsSAMPLE of USSR and V. V. Kuibyshev Flags of USSR and Bulgaria; USA and Handshake (1888-1935) "MIR" and Spacecraft "Soyuz TM-5" 1988 XIX Conference 1988 For Nuclear-free World of Communist Party of USSR
Emblem of Conference Portrait of Lenin and Interior of Palace of Congresses
Demonstration with Peace Banners, Globe
1988 Soviet-Canadian Transarctic Ski Expedition
Flags, Skis and Globe Palace of Congresses and Spasskaya Tower Portrait of Lenin and Hammer and Sickle
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 814 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Summer Olympic Games, Seoul
SAMPLEHurdling Long Jumping
1988 P12 5887 2381 15k.
Basketball Gymnastics Swimming
Football
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 815 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Deciduous Forest Flowers
Spring Pea (Orobus vernus) Giant Bellflower Lungwort SAMPLE(Campanula latifolia) (Pulmonaria obscura)
Turk's-cap Lily Ficaria verna (Lilium martagon)
1988 International Space Project Phobos 1988 70th Birth Anniversary 1988 70th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela of Komsomol (Fighter for freedom of Africa)
Komsomol Badge Nelson Mandela
Phobos and "Phobos" Space Probe
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 816 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Horses in Paintings
“Light-grey Arab Stallion" SAMPLE(N. Sverchkov, 1860)
1988 P12 x 12.5 5902 2386 20k.
"Horsewoman on Orlov-Rastopchin Horse" (N. Sverchkov) "Konvoets" "Letuchy. Grey Stallion of (M.A. Vrubel, 1882) Orlov Trotter Breed" (V. Serov, 1886)
1988 Philatelic Exhibition 1988 Birth Cent of P. Voikov 70th Anniversary of Komsomol (Diplomat)
"Serdar. Akhaltekin Stallion" (A. Villevalde, 1882
Black overprint P. L. Voikov "Philexhibition. Moscow" (1888-1927)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 817 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Paintings - Soviet Culture Fund
1988 P12.5 x 12 5907 2389 SAMPLE15k. + 7k. "Boyarynya looking at Embroidery Design" (K. V. Lebedev, 1905) "Portrait of O.K. Lansere" "Talent" (N. P. Bogdanov-Belsky, (Z. E. Serebryakova, 1910) the end of 1910's)
"Holy Trinity" Icon, Novgorod School)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 818 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 30th Anniv of Magazine 1988 Soviet-Afghan Space Flight Problems of Peace and Socialism 1988 International Letter Week
SAMPLEEnvelopes and UPU Emblem "Mir" and Spacecraft Emblem and Open "Soyuz TM-6" Book 1988 71st Anniversary of October Revolution
1988 Birth Cent of Kviring 1988 250th Birth Anniv of Bolotov (Politician) (Writer and Scientist)
"Appeal of the Leader" (I .M. Toidze, 1947)
1988 Birth Cent of Tupolev E. I. Kviring (Aircraft Designer) A. T. Bolotov (1888-1937) (1738-1833)
A. N. Tupolev (1888-1972)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 819 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Epic Poems of Soviet Union (1st Series)
SAMPLEKazakh Epic Poem "Koblandy Batyr"
Byelorussian Epic Poem "Musician-Magician" Uzbek Epic Poem "Alpamysh"
Ukrainian Epic Poem "Kosak Golota"
Russian Bylina "Ilya Muromets"
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 820 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Zoo Relief Fund
SAMPLE
Bear; Label - Fund Emblem; Wolf; Fox; Wild Boar; Lynx
1988 Tenth Anniversary of USSR-Vietnam Friendship
1988 80th Birth Anniversary 1988 Soviet Arctic Expedition of Ustinov (Marshal)
Anniversary Composition
1988 50th Anniv of State Broadcasting and Sound Recording House
Ice-breaker Sibir, map with D. F. Ustinov route, scientists (1908-1984)
Broadcasting and Recording House
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 821 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 40th Anniversary 1988 Happy New Year of Declaration of Human Rights 1988 Soviet-French Space Flight
Anniversary Emblem Flags and Cosmonauts Life Guard with Peter I SAMPLENew Year Decree 1988 Lenin Soviet Children’s Fund Children’s Paintings
V.I. Lenin Soviet Children's Fund, Moscow
The Soviet Children's Fund has made significant progress in developing present day, diversified forms of foster care for children who are casualties, as it were, of decades of social deterioration.
The Fund has become a national promoter of the rights of children and has enlisted both the public and the government in supporting programs to pro- tect children and to care for those who need out-of- home care.
"Skating rink" (Yulya Krutova, 10 y.o.); "Cock" (Nastya Scheglova, 7 y.o.) "May is flying over the meadows, May is flying over the fields" (Larisa Gaidash, 8 y.o.)
1988 Birth Cent of Lacis (Revolutionary) 1988 Space Post
Martin Janovič Lacis Red overprint (pseudonym of Jan "Space Post" Fridrichovič Sudrabs)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 822 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Summer Olympic Games, Seoul Soviet Medals
SAMPLE
Blue overpint "Sportsmen of the USSR win 55 Gold, 31 Silver and 46 Bronze Medals"
1988 13th Definitive Issue
Post Messenger Cruiser Aurora Spassky Tower State Flag and "The Worker and Dish Aerial and Lenin's Tomb, Emblem the Collective "Orbit" Red Square Farmer"
1988 P12 x 11.5 5949 2410 35k.
Symbols of Art "The Map of Antarctica Statue "Mercury" Great White Emblem of and Literature Discus-thrower" and Emperor by Giovanni da Cranes UPU Penguins Bologna
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 823 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 Petrodvorets Fountains
SAMPLE
5 K. Great Cascade (1715-1723; Samson Fountain (1802) and Big Palace (1714) 10 K. Adam Fountain; 15 K. Golden Mountain Cascade; 30 K. Roman Fountains; 50 K. Oaklet Trick Fountain
1988 Armenian History
The history of Armenia begins with Neolithic cultures of the South Caucasus, such as the Shulaveri-Shomu culture, followed by the Bronze Age Kura-Araxes and Trialeti cultures. The Iron Age kingdom of Urartu lasted from the 9th century to 585 BC, when it was replaced by the Orontid dynasty. Following Persian and Macedonian rule, the Artaxiad dynasty from 190 BC gave rise to the Kingdom of Armenia which rose to the peak of its influence under Tigranes II before falling under Roman rule.
In 301, Arsacid Armenia was the first sovereign nation to accept Christianity as a state reli- gion. The Armenian Apostolic Church later became a great defender of Armenian national- ism. The Armenians later fell under Byzantine, Persians, and Islamic hegemony, but rein- stated their independence with the Bagratuni Dynasty kingdom of Armenia, rival to nearby Atropatene. After the fall of the kingdom in 1045, and the subsequent Seljuk conquest of Armenia in 1064, the Armenians established a kingdom in Cilicia, where they established cordial relations with the Europeans and prolonged their existence as an independent entity to 1375.
Greater Armenia was later divided between the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Armenians then suffered in the genocide that was inflicted on them by the Ottomans. As a result, 1.5 million Armenians were killed, and the rest of the Western Armenians were dispersed throughout the world via Syria and Lebanon. Armenia, from then on corresponding to much of Eastern Armenia, once again gained independence in 1918, with the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, and then in 1991, with the Republic of Armenia.
Tombstone and text "For the victims of Armenian earthquke relief" Gold Coin with Portrait of Tigran II the Great (1st-century B.C.) Church of St. Ripsime (682) "Madonna and Child" (18th-century fresco, Ovnat Ovnatanyan)
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 824 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1988 XIX Soviet Communist Party Conference
SAMPLESymbols - Hammer and Sickle
Symbols - Hammer and Sickle Symbols - Hammer and Sickle
1988 First Space Flight of Shuttle “Buran”
Space Shuttle Buran
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 825 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 30th Anniversary of First Soviet Moon Flight 1989 Birth Centenary 1989 40th Anniversary of Council of Jalmari Virtanen for Mutual Economic Aid
Jalmari Virtanen Council Building (1889-1939) "Vostok" and Automatic SAMPLEStation "Luna-1"
1989 Nature Conservation
Forest Protection
Arctic Preservation
Anti Desertification Campaign
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 826 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Russian Samovars
1989 P11.5 5972 2419 20k.
Samovar, Samovar-barrel by Ivan Samovar-kabachok. Tula, Samovar-vase. Tula, 18thSAMPLE century Lisitsin of Tula, Sokolov's Brothers Factory, Malikov's Factory, 19th century 1830-1840 1840-1850
1989 Birth Cent of Dybenko 1989 175th Birth Anniversary 1989 150th Birth Anniversary (Military Leader) of Taras Shevchenko of M. P. Mussorgsky
M. P. Mussorgsky and Scene from Boris Godunov T. G. Shevchenko P. E. Dybenko
1989 Lilies
1989 P12 5977 2423 5k.
Lilium speciosum "African Queen" "Eclat du Soir" "White Tiger"
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 827 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Zoo Relief Fund
SAMPLE
Marten; Label Emblem of Zoo Relief Fund; Squirrel; Hare; Hedgehog; Badger
1989 Centenary of Declaration of 1st May as Labour Day
Red Flag, Rainbow and Globe, Workers with Red Flags
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 828 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Victory Day
1989 Cosmonautics Day
SAMPLE
"Victory Banner" by P. Loginov and V. Pamfilov, 1954
1989 USSR-USA Expedition Bering Bridge
Orbital Station linked with Space Ship
Expedition Emblem and Flags
1989 119th Birth Anniversary of Lenin
1989 P12 5991 2367 5k.
Lenin and Lenin Museum in Kazan Lenin and Lenin Museum in Kuibyshev
Lenin and Lenin Museum in Frunze
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 829 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 International Space Project Phobos
SAMPLE
“Phobos” with Mars in the Background
Phobos Space Program
The Phobos (Russian: Фобос, Fobos) program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 2 became Mars orbiter and returned 38 images with a resolution of up to 40 meters. Both probes suffered from critical failures. Phobos 1 and 2 were of a new spacecraft design, succeeding the type used in the Venera planetary missions of 1975-1985, last used during the Vega 1 and Vega 2 missions to comet Halley. Phobos 1 was launched on July 7, 1988 and Phobos 2 on July 12, 1988, each aboard a Proton-K rocket. They each had a mass of 2600 kg (6220 kg with orbital insertion hardware attached). The program featured co-operation from 14 other nations including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, France, West Germany, and the United States (who contributed the use of its Deep Space Network for tracking the twin spacecraft).
1989 70th Anniv of Declaration 1989 400th Anniversary of Hungarian Soviet Republic of Volgograd
Monument in honour of "Motherland" Statue and Hungarian Soviet Republic Ancient Town-fortress in Budapest Tsaritsin
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 830 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Beekeeeping
1989 P12 5999 2432 35k.
Drone Bees, Flowers and Bee on Flower Queen Bee and Bees SAMPLEHive in Hive
1989 Birth Cent of Mukhina (Sculptress)
1989 150th Anniv of Photography
Negative and Positive Images
V. I. Mukhina (1889-1953)
1989 Europe - Our Common Home
1989 P11.5 6001 2434 5k.
Map of Europe and Dove Map of Europe and Laying Map of Europe and as Galley Foundations of Peace White Stork's Nest
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 831 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Lenin Soviet Children’s Fund Children’s Paintings
1989 350th Birth Anniv of Jean Racine (Dramatist) SAMPLE
Jean Racine (1639-1699)
1989 150th Birth Anniv of Kuratov (Poet) Hare (Olya Kirina 6 years old) Red cat (Maiya Medkova 7 years old) Doctor (Masha Ivanova 6 years old) Label. 707-the Fund’s bank account number and chicks in nest
1989 13th World Festival I. A. Kuratov of Youth and Students (1839-1875)
World Festival of Youth and Students
The World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), a left-wing youth organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947. The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34,000 young people from 131 countries attended the event.
For the 13th festival, held in Pyongyang, North Korea, and the first time world-wide youth was celebrated in an Asian country, the official motto was “"For Anti- Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship". There were 22,000 participants from 177 countries. Festival Emblem
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 832 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Ducks (1st Series)
1989 P12 6012 2440 15k.
Common Shelduck Green-winged Teal Ruddy Shelduck (TadornaSAMPLE tadorna) (Ana screcca) (Tadorna ferrudinea)
1989 Bicentenary of French Revolution
1989 P11.5 6014 2441 5k.
"Storming of Bastille" (by picture of Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Danton "Marseillaise" (Relief by F. Rude Sh. Monnet) and emblem of and Maximilien Robispierre from Triumphal Arch) exhibition "Philexfrance"
1989 International 1989 50th Anniversary Letter Week of Tallin Zoo 1989 150th Anniversary of Pulkovo Observatory
Observatory Building
Posthorn, Roses in Envelope Lynx and Zoo Emblem and Hemispheres
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 833 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 70th Anniversary of Soviet Circus
SAMPLE
Moscow Circus Building, Tsvetnoi Bouvelard
History of The Russian Circus
In 1919 the Soviet government issued a decree declaring all Russian circuses a state property. But the Russian circus has much a longer history going back to medieval times when roaming buffoons known as "skomorokhi" entertained people with acrobatic numbers. In the 18th centu- ry circus shows became an ordinary event, and in the 19th century every large city had its sta- tionary circus, let alone numerous traveling troupes. Back then, circus performers employed by traveling troupes, most of then too poor to pay for their children's education, could not imagine that a state-owned circus network, the only one in the world, would be created and where new circus stars would be born.
The history of the Russian circus is full of glorious names - the Durov animal training dynasty, all-genre man Boris Eder, illusionists Kio, tiger trainer Irina Bugrimova, clowns Pencil (Mikhail Rumyantsev), Oleg Popov, Yuri Nukulin, Leonid Yengibarov, and the Zapashny dynasty. Today several private troupes have emerged, but the state circus company remains the largest one, it unites more than 40 circus collectives in various Russian cities.
The Russian circus has always been a multi-ethnic circus reflecting the multi-ethnic structure of Russia that includes foreign artists: Chinese, Koreans, Frenchmen and Englishmen. However, Russian circus performers are generally regarded as the best in the world. Russians account for 62% of the actor's staff in the famous Canadian circus and for 87% of in the three-stage American circus. Young Russian circus artists win top awards at prestigious circus festivals in Warsaw, Paris, Monte Carlo. The Russian circus is, has been and will remain one of the best-favoured arts in Russia.
The Great Moscow State Circus, opened on 30th of April 1971, was designed and built by a group of the architects and engineers under the leadership of Mr. I.Belopolsky and is technically very advanced. Its auditorium features a 36m high amphitheatre consisting of 3,400 seats. Five interchangeable rings are located in a huge machine hall to a depth of 18m and with perfect precision, the replacement of one ring with another takes just 5-6 minutes. The Circus also has a sixth ring - for rehearsing.
The Circus has everything necessary for creative activities - its directors, choreographers, musicians, and designers all help the artists to create new acts. The Circus workshops manufactures their own costumes and props. Many of the artistes hold the honourary titles of People's Artistes and Honoured Artistes of Russian Federation and every year the artistes of the Great Moscow Circus take part in pres- tigious international festivals and contests. Annually, the whole circus program and separate acts tour in over 20 countries, performing not only in the circuses, but on the theatre stages, cabarets and theme parks.
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 834 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Epic Poems of Nations of USSR (2nd Series)
1989 P12 x 12.5 6018 2394 SAMPLE10k. Georgian Epic Poem Azerbaijan Epic Poem "Amirani" "Koroglu"
Lithuanian Epic Poem "Fir - Queen of Grass Snakes"
Moldavian Epic Poem Latvian Epic Poem "Mioritsa" "Lachplesis"
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 835 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 275th Anniversary of Battle of Hango Head
SAMPLE
Portrait of Peter I and Battle Scene
1989 80th Birth Anniv of Nkrumah 1989 Bicentenary of Nikolaev
Anniversary Emblem, Container Ship, Buildings First President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) 1989 Sixth All-Union Philatelic Society Congress
Image of stamp RSFSR su155 and memorable text Label. Emblem of Society and philatelic composition
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 836 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 Birth Bicent of J. F. Cooper (Writer)
SAMPLE
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
1989 70th Anniversary of Soviet Circus
V. L. Durov (Trainer) and Sealions Clown Karandash (M. N. Rumyantsev, 1901-1983) with Donkey
V. I. Filatov (Founder of Bear Circus) and Bears
1989 P12 6033 2450 5k.
E. T. Kio (Illusionist) V. E. Lazarenko (Clown and Acrobat) and Jump
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 837 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
1989 130th Birth Anniv of Khetagurov (Writer and Painter)
1989 Fifth World Amateur 1989 Birth Cent of Li Dazhao Boxing Championship (Communist Founder in China)
K. L. Khetagurov SAMPLE(1859-1906) 1989 72th Anniversary of Great October Revolution
Emblem on Glove Li Dazhao (1889-1927)
"October Guardsmen" by M. Chepik, 1967
1989 National Musical Instruments (1st Series)
Russian garmonika, balalaika, gusli, Ukrainian bandura, tsimbaly, trembita, zhaleika and spoons svyril and drymba
1989 P12 x 11.5 6041 2455 10k.
Byelorussian basetlya, lera, Uzbek kkarnai, gidzhak, zang, dudka, buben nagora and rubab
Russia Stamp Album - U.S.S.R. Page 838 www.ruskystamps.com USSR
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1989 130th Birth Anniversary 1989 40th Anniv of German of A. S. Popov Democratic Republic
1989 45th Anniversary of Liberation of Poland SAMPLE "Demonstration of First Radio" State Flag and Polish National Colours (1895, N.A. Sysoev) Coat of Arms of GDR forming “45”
1989 Birth Cent of S. Kosior 1989 Birth Cent of J. Nehru 1989 Birth Cent of Berzin (Council of People's Commissars) (Indian Statesman) (Head of Red Army Intelligence)
S. V. Kosior Jawaharlal Nehru Yan Karlovich Berzin (1889-1939) (Kyuzis Peteris) (1889-1938) 1989 Historical Monuments (1st Series)
1989 P11.5 6063 2464 15k.
St. Basil's Cathedral and St. Sophia's Cathedral Khazret-Khyzr Mosque, Minin and Pozharsky and Statue of Bogdan Samarkand Statue, Moscow Chmielnitsky, Kiev
Statue of Peter I and Sts. Khodzha Ahmed Yasavi Peter and Paul Cathedral, Mausoleum, Turkestan St Petersburg
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1989 Birth Bicent of James Fenimore Cooper (2nd Series) 1989 Soviet Culture Fund
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"Village Market" "Lady in Hat" "The Pioneers", 1823; "The Prairie", 1827
"Portrait of Actress Bazhenova" "The Hunter", 1841; "Last of the Mohicans", 1826; "The Pathfinder", 1840
1989 P12 X 12.5 6052 2461 20k. + 10k.
"Two Women" Plates and Teapot from Popov Porcelain Works
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1989 International Stamp Exhibition Expo-89
1989 Happy New Year SAMPLE
Father Frost on Horse (Dymkovo Toy)
Soviet Lunar Vehicle; Astronaut and Landing Module on Moon Cosmonauts on Mars; Flag and Shield on Mars
Soviet Lunar Vehicle; Astronaut and Landing Module on Moon Cosmonauts on Mars; Flag and Shield on Mars
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1989-91 13th Definitive Issue 1989 Nature Preservation (Litho, new values)
SAMPLEPost Messenger Old Mail Cruiser Aurora Transport
Spassky Tower State Flag and Modern Mail and Lenin's Tomb, Emblem Transport Red Square
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
"The Worker and Rocket on Satellite the Collective Launch Pad Farmer"
1989 P12 x 12.5 6085 2410 35k.
Dish Aerial Symbols of Art "The Map of Antarctica Statue "Mercury" Great White Emblem of "Orbit" and Literature Discus-thrower" and Emperor by Giovanni da Cranes UPU Penguins Bologna
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1989 Russian Naval Commanders (2nd Series)
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5k. V.A. Kornilov, 1806-1854. In the background sea battle 10 K. V.I. Istomin, 1809-1855. In the background the sailing ship "Paris" 15 K. G.I. Nevelsky, 1813-1876. In the background the sailing ship "Baikal" 20 K. G.I. Butakov, 1820-1882. In the background the armoured ships of the Baltic fleet 30 K. A.A. Popov, 1821-1898. In the background a battleship "Petr Veliky" and the armoured ship "Vice-admiral of Popov" 35 K. S.O. Makarov, 1849-1904. In the background sea battle
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1990 Nature Conservation
Acid Rain destroying Oil-smeared Bird Blade Sawing down SAMPLERose on Globe Tree
1990 Capitals of Soviet Republic
Konstantino- Herman the Long, Freedom Monument, Yeleninskaya Tower and Oleviste Church, Domskaya Church and Ivan the Great Bell Domskij Cathedral and "Three Brothers" (Riga) Tower (Moscow) Town Hall Tower (Tallin)
St. Anne's Church and Government Palace and Golden Gates and Victory Arch and Monument to Vakhtang David Sasunskij Maiden's Tower and Gediminas Tower Liberation Monument Monument "Lad'ya" Cathedral Gorgasal and Metekh Moniment and Opera Divan-Khane Palace (Vilnius) (Minsk) (Kiev) (Kishinev) Temple (Tbilisi) and Ballet Theatre (Baku) (Yerevan)
1990 P12 x 12.5 6112 2469 5k.
Palace of Culture, Kukeldash Medrese Manas Monument and State library, Mollanepes Ibn Sine Monument Government House and and University Philharmonic Society Theatre and War Heroes (Avitsenna) and Sdridin Academy of Sciences (Tashkent) Building (Frunze) Monument (Ashkhabad) Aini Theatre (Dushanbe) (Alma-Aty)
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1990 60th Anniv of Vietnamese 1990 Birth Cent of Ho Chi Minh Communist Party (Vietnam Communist Leader)
SAMPLE Independence Monument Ho Chi Minh Hanoi, and State Flag
1990 Owls
1990 P12 x 12.5 6117 2472 10k.
Snowy Owl Long-eared Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) (Asio otus)
Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo)
1990 Victory Day
1990 125th Anniv of International Telecommunications Union 1990 Labour Day
Emblem of UIT, electric cables 1st May and Flowers and computer
"Victory, 1945" (A. G. Lysenko, 1975)
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1990 150th Anniversary Penny Black (First Stamp)
Image of First Stamp, Post Horn Image of First Stamp (T and F) Image of First Stamp (T and P) andSAMPLE Post Vessel and Anniversary Composition and Anniversary Composition
Image of First Stamp (A and H) Image of First Stamp (V and K) and Philatelic Exhibition and Philatelic Exhibition "London-90" Emblem "London-90" Emblem
Image of First Stamp and Anniversary Composition Post Transport
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1990 All-Union Philatelic Exhibition “Leniniana ‘90”
1990 Cosmonautics Day
Orbital Complex and SAMPLECosmonaut Portrait of Lenin
1990 120th Birth Anniversary of Lenin
1990 P12 6132 2367 5k.
Lenin and Lenin Museum in Ulyanovsk Lenin and Lenin Museum in Baku
Lenin and Lenin Museum in Tashkent
1990 150th Birth Anniv of Chaikovsky (Composer)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era, born in a small town in present-day Udmurtia. He was the son of a mining engineer in the government mines. Iolanta (sometimes Iolanthe) is a lyric opera, Opus 69, in one act. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René’s Daughter) by Henrik Hertz. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere in 1892 at the Maryinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg. Composed after the completion of The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky was worried that he had lost his creative inspiration after such a large project. He started Iolanta with the final duet in June of 1891, and despite his worries, finished composition in September and orchestration in November. The public reception was quite favourable, though Tchaikovsky was disappointed when compared to his earlier work, The Enchantress. P. I. Chaikovsky (Tchaikovsky) and Scene from "Iolanta"
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1990 Birds Zoo Relief Fund 1990 World Football Championship “Italy-90”
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10k+5k Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) 20k+10k Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) 20k+10k Raven (Corvus corax)
1990 550th Anniv of Kalmykian Epic Poems Dzhangar
Dzhangar and Horses Goalkeeper; Players; Attempted Tackle; Players and Referee; Goalkeeper Saving Ball
1990 15th Anniv of European Security and Co-operation Conference
Globe, "Finlandia Hall", Helsinki
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1990 Epic Poems of Soviet Union (3rd Series)
SAMPLEKirgisian Epic Poem "Manas"
1990 P12 x 12.5 6142 2394 10k.
Armenian Epic Poem "David Sasunsky" Turkmenian Epic Poem "Gerogly"
Tadjic Epic Poem "Gurugli"
Estonian Epic Poem "Kalevipoeg"
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1991 Marine Animals of Black Sea
Jellyfish Anemone (Rhizostoma pulmo)SAMPLE (Anemonia sulcata)
Spurdog European Anchovy Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Squalus acanthias) (Engraulis encrasicolus) (Tursiops truncatus)
1991 75th Birth Anniv of Paul Keres 1991 5th Anniv of Chernobyl (Estonian Chess Player) Nuclear Power Station Disaster
Paul Keres Allegory - Radioactive Particles killing Vegetation Chernobyl Reactor No.4 after the dis- aster, showing the extensive damage Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Ukraine
On April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The workers were performing an experiment with the reactor's safety systems during which the computer-controlled safety systems were disabled. Problems occurred during the tests, the reactor did not receive enough coolant, had built up too much heat in the core and had fully withdrawn control rods, all of which contributed to unsta- ble and unpredictable reactor operation. When the control rods were manually reinserted in an attempt to regain control of the unstable reac- tor, there was a sudden increase in reactivity, caused by the design of the RBMK reactor and its control rods, and an uncontrollable runaway reaction occurred. The reactor produced tremendous amounts of steam, eventually causing a steam break/explosion, which destroyed part of the reactor. Radioactive debris was flung several miles, and smoke containing radioactive contaminants from the burning graphite traveled as far as Belarus. All permanent residents of Chernobyl and the Zone of alienation were evacuated because radiation levels in the area had become unsafe. The Chernobyl City and its surrounding suburbs are now home to nuclear scientists, maintenance officials for the Chernobyl Power Plant, Liquidation Officials, doctors, physi- cists, and most of all, radiation physicists. Although neighboring Pripyat remains unmaintained, Chernobyl has been renovated and is now home to more than 500 permanent residents, including visitors to the Zone of Alienation who stay at a local lodge in the Chernobyl suburbs.
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1991 Russian Landscape Painting
"Sorrento Coast with View of Capri."; "New Rome. View of St. Angelo's Castle." (both by Silvestr Shchedrin); SAMPLELabel. Portrait of Silvestr Shchedrin, 1791-1830
"Evening in the Ukraine."; "Birch Grove." (both by Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1879); Label. Portrait of Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1841-1910
1991 Environmental Protection
1991 P11.5 6229 2513 20k.
Volga - region of ecological disaster. Baikal - a unique natural Aral Sea - region of ecological Sturgeon and Bell Tower complex, Sable disaster, Saiga
1991 Zoo Relief Fund
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
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1991 25th Anniversary of All-Union Philatelic Society
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Butterflies on Flowers
1991 Russian America
1991 P12 x 11.5 6234 2515 20k.
Harbour of Three Prelates based in 1784 City New-Arkhangelsk based in 1804 on island Fortress Ross in California based in 1812. on island Kadiak. Russian merchant Sitha. Governor A. A. Baranov, 1746-1819 Governor I. A. Kuskov, 1765-1823 and seafarer G. I. Shelihov, 1747-1795.
1991 Historical Monuments (3rd Series)
Minaret in Uzgen Mohammed Bashar Talkhatan-baba Mosque (Kirgizia) Mausoleum (Tadzhikistan) (Turkmenistan)
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1991 30th Anniversary of First Man in Space
1991 10th Anniversary of the UN program ESCAP SAMPLE
Satellite and Liner
Yury Gagarin in uniform; Yury Gagarin wearing space suit Yury Gagarin in uniform with cap; Yury Gagarin in civilian dress
First Man in Space - Yury Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first per- son in space and the first to orbit the Earth. The Vostok 1 mission was the first time anyone had journeyed into outer space and the first time anyone had entered into orbit. The Vostok 1 was launched by the Soviet space program and architected by the Soviet rocket sci- entists Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov. Gagarin orbited the Earth once in 108 minutes. He returned unharmed, ejecting from the Vostok capsule 7 km above the ground and parachuting separately to the ground (the capsule's parachute landing was too rough for cos- monauts to risk). Gagarin received many medals from different countries for his pioneering tour in space.
1991 Birth Cent of Prokofiev (Composer)
1991 Victory Day 1991 121st Birth Anniversary of Lenin
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
"May 1945" "Lenin working on Book Materialism and (A. and S. Tkachev, 1980-1981) Empirical Criticism in Geneva Library." (P. Belousov, 1978)
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SAMPLE with black overprint Stamp Exhibition, Moscow 1991 “Ad Astra-91” International of First Man in Space 1991 30th Anniversary "To stars!" and inscription: "30th Anniversary of First Man in Space"
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1991 30th Anniversary of First Man in Space
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"To stars!" and inscription: "30th Anniversary of First Man in Space"
1991 Orchids
Lady'sSlipper Bee Orchid Marsh Helleborine (Cypripedium calceolus) (Ophrys apifera) (Epipactis palustris)
Lady Orchid Calypso (Orchis purpurea) (Calypso bulbosa)
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1991 Soviet Culture Fund
1991 Letter Writing Week 1991 Soviet-Austrian Space Flight
Girl with Letter Globe, Soviet and Austrian Flags SAMPLEBell and Bell Tower. in Space Kuliga-Drakovanovo, Church of the Assumption in Pskov, Ivan the Great in Moscow and Cathedral of the Assumption in Rostov
1991 Olympic Games, Barcelona (1992)
1991 P12 x 12.5 6281 2536 30k.
Kayak Race and Santa Maria Running and Church of the Football and Stadium Holy Family
1992 Summer Olympic Games, Barcelona
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were celebrated in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, the birth city of IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, was select- ed over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane and Paris in Lausanne, Switzerland in October 1986. 169 nations sent athletes to compete in these Games. With the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve states formed a Unified Team, while the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had their own teams. Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina competed as independent nations after separation from Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia were banned due to UN sanctions, but individual Yugoslav athletes were allowed to take part as Independent Olympic Participants.
The medal count for the top 3 teams was:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Unified Team 45 38 29 112 2 United States 37 34 37 108 3 Germany 33 21 28 82
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1991 Defeat of Attempted Coup
1990 P11.5 6298 2539 7k.
Hero of Soviet Union Hero of Soviet Union Hero of Soviet Union SAMPLEDimitry Komar Vladimir Usov Ilya Krychevsky
Barricades around Russian Federation Government House
1991 Soviet Coup Attempt
During the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (August 19-August 21, 1991), also known as the August Putsch or August Coup, a group of members of the Soviet Union's government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the coun- try. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party (CPSU) who felt that Gorbachev's reform program had gone too far and that a new union treaty that he had negotiated dispersed too much of the central government's power to the republics. Although the coup collapsed in only three days and Gorbachev returned to power, the event crushed the Soviet leader's hopes that the union could be held together in at least a decentralised form.
Since assuming power in 1985, Gorbachev had embarked on an ambitious program of reform, embodied in the twin concepts of pere- stroika and glasnost, meaning economic/ political restructuring and openness, respectively. These moves prompted resistance and sus- picion on the part of hardline members of the Communist system. The reforms also unleashed some forces and movements that Gorbachev did not expect. Specifically, nationalist agitation on the part of the Soviet Union's non-Russian minorities grew, and there were fears that some or all of the union republics might secede. In 1991, the USSR was in a severe economic and political crisis. There were shortages of almost all products, and people had to stand in long queues to buy even essential goods.
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1991 “Ad Astra-91” International Stamp Exhibition, Moscow
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with black overprint
1991 Nobel Prize Winners
A. D. Sakharov, 1921-1989. I. I. Mechnikov, 1845-1916. I. P. Pavlov, 1849-1936. (Peace, 1975) (Medicine, 1908) (Medicine, 1904)
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1991 Soviet-British Space Flight 1991 Tenth Death Anniversary of William Saroyan (Writer)
Soviet and British Flags in Space William Saroyan SAMPLE(1908-1981)
1991 Lenin Soviet Children's Fund Paintings
"The Universe" “Another Planet" (V. Lukyanets, 1973) (V. Lukyanets, 1974)
1991 Ducks (3rd Series)
1991 P12 6265 2528 15k.
Pintails Greater Scaups White-headed Ducks (Anas acuta) (Aythya marila) (Oxyura leucocephala)
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1991 Soviet 1991 Culture Charity and Health Fund of Medieval Russia
SAMPLEPatroness
1991 Conference on Safety and Cooperation in Europe
Conference Emblem 25 K. "The Trinity" (icon, Andrei Rublev), 1411 30 K. Illustration from book of the Apostles, 1564
15 K. Page from Russian Truth (code of laws), 11th-13th century 1991 First Anniv of Declaration 20 K. Portrait of Sergy Radonezhsky (embroidered book cover), 1424 of Ukrainian Sovereignty 10 K. Miniature from Ostromirov Gospel (first book written in Cyrillic), 1056-1057
Woman in Traditional Costume
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1991 Airships
Airship Norge, SAMPLE1923
1991 P12 6271 2532 3k.
Airship Pobeda, 1944
Airship Albatros, Airship GA-42, 1910 1987
Airship LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, 1928
1991 250th Anniversary of Vitus Bering's and A. Chirikov's Expedition
Ships of V. Bering and A. Chirikov, Sighting Land, Route Map Mountain of St.Ilya, Alaska
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1991 Folk Festivals
Shrovetide (Maslenitsa), Plugusorul (New Year) Novruz holiday, Ascension Day, SAMPLERussia holiday, Moldova Azerbaijan Armenia
New Year, Estonia Kokpar folk festival, Kazakhstan Christmas, Ukraine Palm Sanday, Lithuania
Ligo Holiday, Kyz kuumay folk festival, Khasyl toiy folk festival, Latvia Kirgizia Turkmenistan
1991 P12 x 12.5 6297 2438 15k.
Berikaoba spring Novruz holiday, Ivan Kupala summer Lola-bairam folk holiday, Georgia Tajikistan holiday, Belorussia festival, Uzbekistan
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1991 Folk Festivals (Miniature Sheet)
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1991 Election of Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Federation 1991 New Year
SAMPLEFederation Government House Decorations and Gifts 1991 Traditional Musical Instruments (3rd Series)
Moldavian traditional musical instruments. Lettish traditional musical instruments. Ganurags Flute, bagpipes and nai (pipes); kobza and and stabule(wind); tambourine, duga and kokle tsambal (string instruments) (string instruments)
1991 P12 x 11.5 6305 2455 10k.
Kirghiz traditional musical instruments. Flutes, komuzes and kyyak (string instrument)
1991 Historians’ Birth Anniversaries
1991 P11.5 6308 2542 10k.
N. Karamzin, 1766-1826 V. Klyuchevsky, 1844-1911 S. Solovyov, 1820-1879 V. Tatishchev, 1686-1750
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...End USSR
...Russian Federation
- Anomalies - 1992 12th Definitive Issue SAMPLE(Imperf. sheetlet, stamps dated 1984)
Atomic Ice-breaker (12th Definitive Issue) Date of issue: 20th April 1992 - Designer: Yu. Ryakhovsky su5428sh
This sheetlet is not listed in some catalogues (e.g. Stanley Gibbons), but we have chosen to include it because the stamps are marked “CCCP”. However, technically it was issued post USSR, on 20 April 1992, under the Russian Federation period.
Printing run: 3.800.000 stamps or 380.000 Miniature Sheets. Michel catalogue number: 5428IBv.
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