September 1, a postage stamp dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the city of Ulan-Ude to be issued
Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia. The city was founded in 1666 as a Cossack winter settlement of Udinskoye; from 1783, it was called Verkhneudinsk. Later, the town was renamed Ulan-Ude in 1934.
The city is a major industrial center of East Siberia and an important transport hub of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Nowadays Ulan-Ude is also a leading scientific center of Siberia and the Russia’s Far East. Fundamental science is represented by the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It comprises five 5 research institutes, whose spheres are management of natural resources, Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, general and experimental biology, geology, material physics, as well as scientific institutions of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
The postage stamp features the coat of arms of Ulan-Ude against the background of the fountain on the Teatralnaya Square and Tsidinzhapov Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmarks for Moscow and Ulan-Ude.
Design: O. Shushlebina
Face value: 24.00 RUB.
Size of stamp: 42×30 mm, size of sheet: 146×170 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 15 (3×5) stamps.
Circulation: 390,000 stamps (26,000 sheets).
September 6, a postage stamp dedicated to Lukoil Oil Company to be issued
PJSC LUKOIL is one of the largest companies that extract oil and gas, and produce petroleum and petrochemicals. The company dominates Russian and world markets in its main spheres of activity.
The company’s history can be traced back to 25 November 1991, when the Government of the RSFSR issued the Decree No. 18 on establishing the LangepasUrayKogalymneft petroleum corporation. The company plays a major part in the fuel and energy sector of Russia accounting for 16% of crude production and 15 % of oil refining.
Nowadays, LUKOIL produces a wide range of high-quality refined oil products, gas processing products and petrochemicals, and operates in 63 Russian regions, 35 countries of the world constantly expanding its reach.
The postage stamp depicts an oil industry worker against the background of an oil-producing complex.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: S. Ulyanovskiy.
Face value: 24 RUB.
Size of stamp: 65×32.5 mm, size of sheet: 170×167 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 8 (2×4) stamps.
Circulation: 224,000 stamps (28,000 sheets).
September 13, an envelope with an original stamp dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory to be issued
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and one of the leading music universities in the country and in the world.
The Moscow Conservatory was founded in 1866. Its creation was initiated by Nikolai Rubinstein and co-founded by Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy, the President of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society.
There are following faculties in the conservatory currently: vocal, conductor, history and theory, composer, orchestral, piano, historic and modern performing art.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: A. Fedulov.
Circulation: 1,000,000 copies.
September 14, a postage stamp dedicated to Unified State Exam to be issued
The Unified State Exam (USE) is the main form of graduation examinations in schools and a form of preliminary examinations in Russian universities since 2009.
The USE is administered by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor) together with executive authorities that perform public management in education in constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as foreign countries for graduates of schools at embassies, military units, etc.
The postage stamp features the USE logo and
Choice of the Future motto.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: A. Drobyshev.
Face value: 19.00 RUB.
Size of stamp: 37×37 mm, size of sheet: 152×152 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 9 (3×3) stamps.
Circulation: 315,000 stamps (35,000 sheets).
September 15, a postcard with an original stamp dedicated to the 125th birth anniversary of Otto Schmidt, a scientist, to be issued
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (1891–1956) was a Soviet mathematician, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer, professor, member of the Academy of Science of the USSR, a Hero of the Soviet Union (1937), an explorer of the Pamir Mountains and the Polar Circle.
Schmidt was one of the creators and an editor-in-chief of the
Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He initiated the founding of an academic geophysics institution. In 1930–1934, he led the famous arctic expeditions on
Georgy Sedov,
A. Sibiryakov and Chelyuskin steam icebreakers.
Otto Schmidt was an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society; he made a major contribution to the exploration of the northern polar territories. In 1932, Schmidt was the head of the expedition on the A. Sibiryakov steam icebreaker, which made a non-stop voyage along the Northern Sea Route without wintering for the first time in history.
On 27 June 1937, under a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Otto Schmidt was awarded a title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for spearheading establishing the North Pole-1 drifting ice station.
The postcard with an original stamp depicts a portrait of Otto Schmidt against the background of the Tupolev TB-3 aircraft. The main image features Schmidt's expedition on the
A. Sibiryakov steam icebreaker.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a special cancellation postmark for Moscow.
Design: F. Sukhinin.
Circulation: 15,000 copies.
September 16, two souvenir sheets dedicated to Perm Krai and the Republic of Ingushetia to be issued as part of Coat of Arms of Constituent Territories and Cities of the Russian Federation series
The coat of arms of Perm Krai depicts a silver bear heading to the right placed on a red escutcheon, with a gospel in a golden cover featuring an eight-pointed cross on its back. The gospel is capped with a silver widened cross caved-in at the ends. The escutcheon is capped with a princely crown.
A heraldic description of the coat of arms of Perm is as follows: “Against the red background field, there is a silver walking bear carrying a golden gospel on its back and accompanied with a silver widened cross at the head of the escutcheon”.
The postage stamp depicts the coat of arms of Perm, and the souvenir sheet margins feature the coat of arms of Perm Krai and a map of the Russian Federation.
The coat of arms of the Republic of Ingushetia is a circle surrounding an eagle with its wings outstretched, a symbol of nobility and valor, wisdom and loyalty.
The coat of arms of Magas is a modern French shield. The shield is an embodiment of protection, warrior’s honor and valiance. There is a golden eagle with its wings outstretched. The eagle represents an idea of renaissance and renewal, as well as a rebirth of a city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia.
The postage stamp depicts the coat of arms of Magas, and the souvenir sheet margins feature the coat of arms of the Republic of Ingushetia and a map of the Russian Federation.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmarks for Moscow, Perm and Magas.
Design: A. Moscovets.
Face value: 50.00 RUB.
Size of sheet: 90×60 mm, size of stamp in sheet: 30×42 mm.
Circulation: 70,000 sheets each.
September 20, a postage stamp bearing an image of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation to be issued
The history of RANEPA can be traced back to the beginning of 1920s. The Institute of Red Professors was opened in October 1921 to train professors of social sciences for universities, as well as employees for research institutions, central Communist Party and state bodies.
The Academy of National Economy under the Council of Ministers of the USSR was founded in Moscow in 1977.
The Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation was established in 2010 by merging the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation with the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, as well as 12 federal state educational institutions.
It is a Russian institution of higher professional education that trains specialists in socioeconomics and humanities, and the largest socioeconomic and humanities University in Russia and Europe, which rightfully tops all national ratings.
The postage stamp depicts the building and the logo of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmarks for Moscow and Vladimir.
Design: A. Moscovets.
Face value: 19.00 RUB.
Size of stamp: 50×37 mm, size of sheet: 170×168 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 9 (3×3) stamps.
Circulation: 348,000 stamps (29,000 sheets).
September 22, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Alexander Prokhorov, a physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, to be issued
Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002) was an outstanding Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics. A laser technology pioneer, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
Prokhorov’s works are dedicated to radio physics, accelerator physics, radio spectroscopy, quantum electronics and its applications and non-linear optics. He established a major physics school; there were many prominent scientists among his students. The General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been bearing the name of Prokhorov since 2002.
The postage stamp depicts a portrait of Alexander Prokhorov against the background of a blackboard with notes from a 1964 colloquium on it.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: G. Schegol.
Face value: 21.50 RUB.
Size of stamp: 32.50×32.50 mm, size of sheet: 118×118 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 9 (3×3) stamps.
Circulation: 252,000 stamps (28,000 sheets).
September 23, an envelope with original stamp dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of a ground attack aircraft pilot Anna A. Timofeyeva to be issued as a part of “To the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” series
Sr.Lt. Anna Alexandrovna Timofeyeva (before her marriage – Yegorova) was a ground attack aircraft pilot, an air navigator of the 805th Attack Aviation Regiment (197th Ground Attack Division, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front).
She was born in village Volodovo on September 23, 1916 (now in the Tver Region). In 1939 she was successfully graduated from the Kherson flying school and became instructor at the Kalinin (Tver) Flying Club. Since summer 1941 she flew with the 130th Independent Communication Squadron of the Southern Front. In 1942 she got a transfer to ground attack aircraft into the 805th Attack Aviation Regiment.
Anna Timofeyeva took part in air battles over the Taman Peninsula, the Malaia Zemlia. She completed 277 mission sorties. May 6, 1945 she was awarded a title of a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Until retirement Anna Timofeyeva worked in the Moscow metro.
She was awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st class, the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari (Poland), the Order “For Honor and Gallantry” of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Medal “For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”, the Medal “For the Defence of the Caucasus”.
The envelope with an original stamp features an emblem of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945; the main image depicts a portrait of Anna Timofeyeva against a ground-attack aircraft Il-2 and the Gold Star Medal.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: R. Komsa.
Emblem: A. Moscovets.
Circulation: 1 000 000 copies.
September 27, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of the Degtyarev plant to be issued
The Degtyarev plant was founded during the First World War. August 27, 1916 the construction of the first buildings of the Kovrov machine-gun plant started (the Kovrov machine-gun plant was renamed the Degtyarev plant in 1949).
The establishment of the plant is connected with the name of outstanding Russian scientist Vladimir G. Fyodorov and his apprentice and assistant outstanding engineer Vasily A. Degtyaryov.
Nowadays, the Degtyarev plant manufactures the products the high level of which is well known and appreciated in many countries.
The Degtyarev plant is producing weapons for air, naval and ground forces for armies of 17 countries of the world.
The postage stamp features the stele “The Degtyarev plant workers for the Motherland. 1941–1945” against the front of building A of the Degtyarev plant.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and a first day postmark for Moscow and Kovrov (the Vladimir Region).
Design: A. Povarihin.
Face value: 21.50 RUB.
Size of stamp: 37×37 mm, size of sheet: 131×131 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 9 (3×3) stamps.
Circulation: 252,000 stamps (28,000 sheets).
September 27, an envelope with an original stamp dedicated to the 150th birth anniversary of Herbert George Wells to be issued as part of World Cultural Luminaries series
Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer and an opinion journalist. He was the author of such famous science fiction novels as
The Time Machine (1895),
The Invisible Man (1897) and
The War of the Worlds (1898).
During his writing career, H. G. Wells wrote approximately 40 novels and several volumes of short stories, more than a dozen of polemical works on philosophical problems and near the same number of works on rebuilding the society, as well as two world histories, ca 30 volumes of political and social forecasts, more than 30 brochures regarding the Fabian Society, arms, nationalism, world peace, 3 children books and an autobiography.
The works of H. G. Wells are translated in many languages.
The envelope with an original stamp contains a composition of symbols of various kinds of art: a lyre, palette, books, a quill, column and a theatre curtain, as well as a portrait of H. G. Wells against the background of an illustration for
The War of the Worlds.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a special cancellation postmark for Moscow.
Design: I. Ulyanovskiy.
Circulation: 1,000,000 copies.
September 29, two postage stamps dedicated to the 200th birth anniversary of the Tarkhankut and the Chersonesus Lighthouses to be issued
A lighthouse is a high building, a tower on the sea shore designed to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea using visual surveillance, radiolocation and audio detection.
The Tarkhankut and the Chersonesus Lighthouses is located on the Black Sea coast of the Republic of Crimea. They are called “twin-brothers” because they both were built in 1816 by one and the same design and they were put into service in June 1817 after installation of parabolic reflectors that were delivered from St. Petersburg.
The Chersonesus Lighthouse belongs to Sebastopol, it is located on the most western point of the city. During the Great Patriotic war the lighthouse was completely destroyed and built anew in 1950-1951 by the military engineers of the Black Sea Fleet. The white architecturally styled reinforced-concrete lighthouse’s tower topped by a huge glassed-in lantern construction is 36 metres high. The tower is coated with Inkerman limestone The Chersonesus Lighthouse is known by the seamen by the signal letters “SB” that is short of “Sebastopol”. The lighthouse transmits this two-letter identifier in Morse code every night.
The Tarkhankut Lighthouse is made of the Inkerman limestone. The lighthouse is about 40 metres high and it can be seen from afar off. It is a conical stone tower topped by a wooden hexagonal-shaped lantern construction. The lighthouse was built so qualitatively that in the past 200 years there was held only cosmetic repairs.
The postages stamps feature the Tarkhankut and the Chersonesus Lighthouses against the maps appropriating to their location, and the mariner's cards.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture an illustrated cover with postage stamps and first day covers with cancellation (Moscow, Sebastopol) inside.
Design: O.Shushlebina
Face value: 14.00 RUB.
Size of stamp: 42×30 mm, size of sheet: 146×170 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 15 (3×5) stamps.
Circulation: 405,000 stamps (27,000 sheets).
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