September 4, a postal card with a commemorative stamp “300th Anniversary of the City of Sestroretsk” is to be released into circulation
Sestroretsk is a municipal town in Kurortny District of Saint Petersburg and a seaside climatic resort on the northern shores of the Gulf of Finland.
The town is named after the Sestra River. It is here that Peter the Great ordered to build a summer residence with a garden as well as a munitions factory in 1714.
After the construction of the Primorskaya Railway in 1893, Sestroretsk became the largest recreation resort on the shores of the Gulf of Finland.
Sestroretsk received city status on June 16, 1925.
The postal card with a commemorative stamp depicts Sestroretsk coat of arms and Saint Peter and Paul Church (laid down on June 4, 2004 to commemorate Russian submariners).
Design: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: letter “B”.
Circulation: 12 thousand.
September 4, a postal card with a commemorative stamp “Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) is to be released into circulation
On September 1, 1904 Saint Petersburg Telegraph Agency was established. It was the first official information agency.
On July, 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was created by a decree of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union, which became the central information body of the country. TASS had the exclusive right to distribute news outside the USSR.
In January 1992, the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia was established. The TASS abbreviation was preserved as an internationally recognized and reputed brand. That is how ITAR-TASS started.
ITAR-TASS – a leding state information agency of Russia and a legend of the national news reporting. 74 overseas bureaus and 48 regional offices and press centres across Russia enable the Agency to rapidly report news from any spot of the Earth.
The postal card with a commemorative stamp depicts the ITAR-TASS logo with the globe in the background, and a photograph of a Sibir match factory worker listening to the radio. Tomsk. 1929. TASS photo reports.
Design: А. Drobyshev.
Face value: letter “B”.
Circuation: 12 thousand.
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