Emissions of state valuable postal matter in October

On October 3, a surcharged stamp with an image of a KA-32 helicopter dedicated to the National Helicopter Building Centre Mil and Kamov will go into postal circulation

The National Helicopter Building Centre Mil and Kamov (JSC NCV Mil and Kamov) is a Russian aviation industry enterprise located in urban village Tomilino, Lyubertsy District of the Moscow Region. It is engaged in the development and experimental operation of helicopters. It was founded in 2019 on the basis of JSC Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and JSC Kamov. The company weaved together two unique engineering schools of the Russian helicopter industry - the Mil School and the Kamov School. It forms part of JSC Russian Helicopters.

Ka-32 helicopters have become widely used in mountainous conditions: whole-tree logging, construction of power transmission lines and carrying out of mountain rescue operations. The navigation equipment of Ka-32 helicopters makes it possible to fly along the selected route in the automatic mode. Ka-32 helicopters can be flown day and night, both in easy and complicated weather conditions.

The postage stamp provides an image of a Ka-32 helicopter and a surcharge of a new face value; the margins of the sheet of stamps carry the overprinted text: «Национальный центр вертолётостроения имени М.Л. Миля и Н.И. Камова» (The National Helicopter Building Centre Mil and Kamov).

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Lyubertsy of the Moscow Region.


Design Artist: R. Komsa (stamp); Design: M. Miloradova (overprint).
Face value: 19 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 186×140 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (4×4) with 14 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 168 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).


On October 4, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of the Gosfilmofond (a state film archive) of Russia will go into postal circulation

The Gosfilmofond of Russia is a chief and the largest archive of films of the Russian Federation, a member of the International Federation of Film Archives. It is a state cultural institution: a depository of the national collection of films and other film materials; it carries out collecting, creative and manufacturing, cultural and educational, investigative, methodological and informational activities in the sphere of cinematography.

Since 2019, the State Film Archive has been digitizing film materials within the framework of the Culture national project. The Gosfilmofond collection contains more than 70,000 film titles, ranging from silent films by the Lumière brothers shot in France in 1895 to modern Russian and foreign cinema production.

The postage stamp provides an image of the building of the Gosfilmofond of Russia; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a cine film, reels and reel boxes.

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 95×70 mm, stamp size in the sheet: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 20 thousand sheets.


On October 8, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Alexey Shchusev, an architect, will go into postal circulation

Alexey Shchusev (1873-1949) was an architect, a Full Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1908), an academician of architecture (1910), an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943).

In 1911, Shchusev became the chief architect of the Kazan railway station in Moscow. In 1912-1916, he designed railway stations in Sofrino, Krasnoufimsk, Sergach and Murom. In 1918-1923, Shchusev headed the development of the New Moscow master plan, was the chief architect of the first All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft-and-Industrial Exhibition held in Moscow in 1923. The most famous work by Shchusev was the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square. In 1925-1926, Alexey Shchusev fulfilled the project of the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen. In 1926-1929, he was the director of the Tretyakov Gallery.

A significant place in the Shchusev's activity belonged to projects for the renewal of the cities destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.

One of his latest creations was the Komsomolskaya station of the Ring Line of the Moscow Metro that reflects the triumph of victory over fascism.

The postage stamp provides an image of the Memorial Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh on the Kulikovo Field; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of Alexey Shchusev, his desk, his projects and books.

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as illustrated covers for the souvenir sheet with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside and for the second emission type: an imperforated souvenir sheet with embossing.


Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 150 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 95×83 mm, stamp size in the sheet: 42×30 mm.
Quantity: 19 thousand sheets (the first emission type); 3.8 thousand sheets (the second emission type*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.


On October 13, two postage stamps dedicated to a bridge over the Moscow Canal and a bridge named after composer Sergei Rachmaninoff will go into postal circulation in the Architectural Structures series

The bridge over the Moscow Canal makes part of the start-up complex of the Central Ring Motorway-3, the longest section of the Ring Motorway, running parallel to the Small Ring Road A-107 and connecting the new expressway M-11 Moscow-St. Petersburg and motorway M-7 Volga. The bridge is 1,410.15 m long and covers an area of 38,497 m².

The Composer Rachmaninoff Bridge is the longest bridge on the M-11 Neva expressway located at the 539th km in the Novgorod Region. Its length is 730 m.

A multifunctional zone with access to the Oneg estate, where Sergei Rachmaninoff spent his childhood, has been arranged near the bridge.

The postage stamps provide images of the bridge over the Moscow Canal in the Moscow Region and the Composer Rachmaninoff Bridge in the Novgorod Region.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod, as well as maxi-cards and illustrated covers with a postage stamp, a label and an envelope with a cancel for Moscow (the bridge over the Moscow Canal) and Veliky Novgorod (the Composer Rachmaninoff Bridge) inside each cover.


Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 45 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×174 mm.
Emission form: sheets with 15 (3×5) stamps.
Quantity: 120 thousand each stamp (8 thousand each sheet).


On October 14, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of the foundation of the Moscow Artistic Public Theatre (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre) by V. Nemirovich-Danchenko and K. Stanislavsky will go into postal circulation

The Moscow Artistic Public Theatre was founded by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1898. Since 1989, the theatre bears the name of Anton Chekhov, one of its main authors.

Among the best performances of the Moscow Art Theatre, one may quote Woe from Wit (1906) by Griboyedov, The Blue Bird (1908) by Maeterlinck, A Month in the Country (1909) by Turgenev, Shakespeare's Hamlet (1911) and others. Since 1912, the Moscow Art Theatre started to establish studios to train actors in the principles of the MKHAT School.

In 1970, Oleg Yefremov became the theatre principal director. In 2000, Oleg Tabakov became the Artistic Director of the theatre.
In 2001, the theatre's third stage, a New Stage, was opened, intended specifically for experimental stage performances.

In spring of 2018, Sergei Zhenovach spearheaded the theatre and on October 28, 2021, Konstantin Khabensky took up the post of the Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

The main image features the front entrance of the Moscow Artistic Public Theatre (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre); the commemorative stamp provides an emblem of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.

In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce a special cancel for Moscow.


Design Artist: A. Eghiazaryan.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.


On October 17, four postage stamps dedicated to Samara monuments will go into postal circulation in the Contemporary Art of Russia series

The Contemporary Art of Russia series is reflective of the artwork of contemporary authors who convey the atmosphere of new Russia, its uniqueness and dynamism, demonstrates the techniques and approaches in creating paintings and sculptural compositions peculiar to our era.

The postage stamps show the following:

— sculpture Uncle Styopa the Militiaman by Z. Tsereteli (2015);
— sculpture Buratino (Pinocchio) by S. Karslyan (2013);
— monument to Comrade Sukhov by K. Chernyavsky (2012); and
— monument to Yury Detochkin by I. Melnikov (2012).

In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Samara.


Design: O. Savina.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, 32.5×65 mm; sheet size: 131×126 mm, 117×156 mm.
Emission form: 
a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 60 thousand each stamp (10 thousand each sheet).


On October 20, a surcharged stamp with an image of a KA-226 helicopter dedicated to the National Helicopter Building Centre Mil and Kamov will go into postal circulation

Currently, JSC NCV Mil and Kamov incorporates two development bureaus - Mil Design Bureau and Kamov Design Bureau, a trial plant, as well as an experimental and research (bench) complex and a flight test center. The company carries out explorations; it designs, builds and tests prototype helicopters, introduces them into serial production, retrofits, and supports Mi and Ka helicopters in production and operation.

The Ka-226 helicopter was designed by JSC Kamov. The first flight was performed on September 4 of 1997. The Ka-226 multi-purpose helicopter is designated for transportation of people and cargo, as well as for solution of a wide range of tasks of civil aviation.

The postage stamp provides an image of a Ka-226 helicopter and a surcharge of a new face value; the margins of the sheet of stamps carry the overprinted text: «Национальный центр вертолётостроения имени М.Л. Миля и Н.И. Камова» (The National Helicopter Building Centre Mil and Kamov).

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Lyubertsy of the Moscow Region and Yaroslavl.


Design Artist: R. Komsa (stamp); Design: M. Miloradova (overprint).
Face value: 19 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 186×140 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (4×4) with 14 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 168 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).


On October 24, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 125th Birth Anniversary of Zinaida Ermolyeva, a microbiologist, an epidemiologist, a creator of antibiotics in the USSR, will go into postal circulation

Zinaida Ermolyeva (1898-1974) was a Soviet microbiologist and epidemiologist, a Full Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, a creator of antibiotics in the USSR, an Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, a Winner of the Stalin Prize, first grade, for the development of a new method of rapid diagnostics and phagoprophylaxis of an infectious disease.

From 1925, she headed the department of microbial biochemistry at the Biochemical Institute under the People's Commissariat for Health of the RSFSR in Moscow. In 1939, she was sent on a mission to Afghanistan, where she invented a drug whose effectiveness during the cholera epidemic, as well as diphtheria and typhoid fever was so high that Ermolyeva was advanced to a professorship for the creation of this drug.

In 1942, she received penicillin for the first time in the USSR and took an active part in the organization of its industrial production in the country. This saved hundreds of thousands of lives of Soviet soldier during the Great Patriotic War.

In 1945-1947, she was the Director of the Institute of Biological Prophylaxis of Infections. In 1947, on the basis of this Institute, the All-Union Research Institute of Penicillin (afterwards the All-Union Research Institute of Antibiotics) was founded where she headed the Department of Experimental Therapy.

At the same time, from 1952 until the end of her life, she headed the Department of Microbiology and the Laboratory of New Antibiotics at the Central Institute of Microbiology (currently, the Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education).

She is the author of more than 500 scientific papers and 6 monographs. About 180 theses, including 34 doctoral dissertations, were prepared and defended under her supervision.

The commemorative stamp provides a portrait of Zinaida Ermolyeva and a schematic of benzylpenicillin of her invention; the main image features Zinaida Ermolyeva at work.

In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow, Volgograd and Rostov-on-Don.


Design Artist: R. Komsa.
Quantity: 6 thousand cards.


On October 24, a postage stamp dedicated to the Tehran Conference of 1943 will go into postal circulation in the History of Russian Diplomacy series

From November 28 to December 1, 1943, a meeting was held between the leaders of the three allied states of the anti-Hitler coalition: Joseph Stalin, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President of the USA, and Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The meeting went down in history as the Tehran Conference

At the end of the conference, the Declaration of the Three Powers was published. According to the document, the leaders of the Big Three agreed upon the plans for the destruction of Nazi armed forces in terms of the timing and scale of operations undertaken from the east, west and south. The Declaration stated the determination of the three states to work together both during the war and in the ensuing time of peace.

The Tehran Conference is one of the major diplomatic events of the Second World War. It was an important stage in the development of international and inter-Alliances relations of that period.

The postage stamp features the leaders of the three states: Joseph Stalin, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President of the USA; and Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×50 mm, sheet size: 170×130 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).

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