The Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Marka” Publishing and Trading Centre supervised by the Federal Communications Agency has prepared the following products to be issued:
On May 5, a postage stamp “100th Birth Anniversary of Ya.B. Zeldovich (1914–1987), Theoretical Physicist”
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (1914–1987) was a Soviet physicist and a member of the USSR Academy of Science (1958); he dealt with nuclear defense issues and astrophysics and cosmology.
FDCs with cancellation (Moscow and Saint Petersburg) have been prepared for the release.
Design: А. Povarikhin
Face value: 15 RUB.
Size of stamp: 42×30 mm, size of sheet: 142×166 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet of 15 (3×5) stamps.
Circulation: 405 thousand stamps of each value (27 thousand sheets).
On May 8, an envelope with an original stamp “100th Birth Anniversary of N.F. Makarov (1914–1988), Firearms Designer” is to be released into circulation
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The envelope depicts a portrait of N.F. Makarov and a 9mm pistol of the year 1955 type.
Design: А. Drobyshev.
Face value: letter “A”.
Circulation: 1 million.
On May 8, an envelope with an original stamp “125th Birth Anniversary of I.I. Sikorsky (1889–1972), Aircraft Designer” is to be released into circulation
The envelope depicts a portrait of I.I. Sikorsky against the VS-300 helicopter design in the background and the Ilya Muromets aircraft.
Design: R. Komsa.
Face value: letter “A”.
Circulation: 1 million.
On May 21, two postage stamps “Joint Issue of the Russian Federation and the Swiss Confederation. Architecture. Tower Clocks” are to be released into circulation. The launch commemorates the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries
The history of diplomatic relations between Russia and Switzerland dates back 200 years. The first Russian ambassador in Switzerland was I. A. Kapodistrias, Russia’s diplomat who took charge of the Russian Embassy in 1814 году. He actively facilitated the initiation of a new Constitution of the Swiss Confederation and signed the finalizing documents of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 declaring the Russian Empire as one of the guarantee powers for the Swiss neutrality.
The Kazansky Railway Station in Moscow is justly considered an outstanding national architectural masterpiece. A peculiar charm of the railway station is given by the tower clock that was designed by the architect A.A. Shchusev personally. It was him who drew Zodiac signs for the big blue clockface.
The Zytglogge is a medieval tower with an astronomical clock in the historical centre of Bern built between 1218 and 1220 as a defense tower in the west end of the city central street. Its striking clock was a precise time-keeper for the citizens.
The postage stamps depict a tower clock of the Kazansky Railway Station in Moscow designed by the architect A.V. Shchusev and the Zytglogge tower clock in Bern, with Kaspar Brunner’s clockwork.
An illustrated cover has been prepared for the release with two RF postage stamps and two Swiss postage stamps inside and FDCs with cancellation (Moscow and Saint Petersburg).
Design: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face values: 15 RUB, 20 RUB.
Size of stamps: 37×37 mm, size of sheet: 138×138 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet with illustrated margins of 8 (3 x 3) stamps and a coupon.
Circulation: 200 thousand stamps of each value (50 thousand sheets).
On May 21, a postal card with an original stamp “100th Birth Anniversary of S.B. Speransky (1914–1983), Architect” is to be released into circulation
Sergey Borisovich Speransky (1914–1983) was a Soviet architect.
His main works in Saint Petersburg: residential houses in Moskovsky (1956–1961) and Novoizmailovsky (1964–1965) Prospekts, TV Broadcasting Centre (1962), Diesel Industry Institute (1963); Politekhnicheskaya underground station (1975).
The postal card depicts a portrait of S.B. Speransky and a fragment of the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War, 1975.
Design: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: letter “B”.
Circulation: 12 thousand.
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