On November 3, a postage stamp dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of Petrodvorets Watch Factory Raketa will go into postal circulation
Petrodvorets watch factory Raketa is one of the oldest factories in Russia. Its history dates back to the establishment in 1721 by decree of Peter I of the Peterhof lapidary works. After the October Revolution of 1917, the factory produced precision industrial stones for the USSR Military Department and the Red Army. Over the years, the factory manufactured various products from tops for umbrellas and canes, mosaic for the throne of the Naval Cathedral in Kronshtadt, tombs for the Peter and Paul Cathedral to ruby Kremlin stars. In 1949, the plant was restored after the Great Patriotic War and began producing watches Pobeda (Victory) and Zvezda (Star) and in 1954, the factory was given its present name Petrodvorets Watch Factory. Since 1961, the plant has been producing watches for civilians, as well as for polar explorers, cosmonauts, undersea boatmen and for the Army and Navy. By 1980, the annual output of the factory reaches about 4 500 000 watches.
Currently, the factory serves the aviation, marine, scientific and industrial sectors of the country, as well as directly produces watches of the Raketa and Svet brands and watches for other brands.
The postage stamp provides images of the Raketa Classic watch and the historic building of the factory in Peterhof.
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: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 56 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×138 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 108 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).
On November 5, in the framework of the joint issue of the Russian Federation and Mongolia, a postage stamp dedicated to national musical instruments will go into postal circulation
The bilateral diplomatic relations between Russia and Mongolia were officially established on November 5, 1921, after the victory of the People's Revolution in Mongolia. Starting from the Soviet period, relations between the two countries have remained traditionally friendly.
The subject of the joint issue is national musical instruments: balalaika and morin khuur.
The balalaika is a Russian folk trichord pizzicato musical instrument with a triangular wooden sound box.
The morin khuur is a Mongolian national bowed instrument widespread in Mongolia, China, and Russia (Buryatia, Kalmykia, Irkutsk Region, and Trans Baikal Territory
The postage stamp features national musical instruments of Russia and Mongolia: balalaika and morin khuur.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow.
Design Artist: M. Bodrova.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×138 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 108 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).
On November 11, a postal block dedicated to the 200th Birth Anniversary of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, writer, will go into postal circulation
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is one of the most significant and world-famous Russian writers, a classic of Russian literature.
Dostoevsky wrote his first novel Poor Folk in 1845, and in 1846, he wrote The Double novella followed by The Landlady novella in 1847. In later years, novellas White Nights and Netochka Nezvanova were published.
In 1864, Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground. In 1865, the writer began to work on the Crime and Punishment (1866) novel, which mirrored the complete complex path of his inner quest. In 1868-1871, the writer worked on novels The Idiot and Demons. In 1875, novel The Adolescent was published, and in 1879-1880, The Brothers Karamazov came out.
From 1873, the writer became the Editor-in-Chief of the The Citizen magazine; in the pages of this magazine, he began to publish A Writer's Diary, which at that time was a teacher of life for thousands of Russian people.
The postal block provides images of a book, a writer’s facsimile, and paintings by I. Glazunov: F.M. Dostoevsky (1992) and First Date. Illustration for Dostoevsky's story “White Nights” (2012) from the collection of the Gallery of Ilya Glazunov.
In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Veliky Novgorod and Omsk.
Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Block size: 77×116 mm; stamp size in the block: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 30 thousand blocks.
On November 12, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to annual international educational campaign Geographical Dictation will go into postal circulation
Since 2015, the Russian Geographical Society, on the initiative of the Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Society, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, has been annually holding the All-Russian Geographical Dictation. This is a large-scale educational campaign aimed at evaluation of the people’s level of geographical literacy.
In 2015, the Dictation was held in every region of our country, and in 2017, it reached the international scale: the campaign took place all throughout Russia and in 24 foreign countries.
In 2021, the campaign will be held for the seventh time on November 14. It will be possible to check your knowledge in person or remotely on dedicated sites, as well as online on the campaign website dictant.rgo.ru.
The main illustration features students during a geographical dictation, a map of the Earth's hemispheres, an armillary sphere, and the Vostok sloop; the commemorative stamp provides images that symbolically reflect geographic projects.
In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky, S. Kapranov.
Quantity: 6 thousand cards.
On November 15, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum will go into postal circulation
The history of the present-day Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum dates back to 1921, to the establishment of two museums devoted to the heritage of the Great Russian classics: the Anton Chekhov Moscow State Museum and the Dostoyevsky Memorial Apartment.
Currently, the Museum collection consists of more than half a million items, which permitted to arrange more than ten memorial exhibitions, known not only in Russia, but also far beyond our country: F. Dostoevsky Memorial Apartment, Anton Chekhov Memorial House, A. Hertzen Memorial House, M. Lermontov Memorial House, L. Tolstoy Memorial Apartment, the Silver Age Museum, M. Prishvin Memorial House in the village of Dunino, B. Pasternak Memorial House in Peredelkino, K. Chukovsky Memorial House in Peredelkino, and the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum Information and Cultural Center in Kislovodsk.
The postage stamp provides images of the Museum building, the cover of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language by V. Dahl, images of books and manuscripts.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: V. Khablovsky.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 170×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 12 (3×4) stamps.
Quantity: 108 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).
On November 17, a postal block timed to the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Prosecutor's Office will go into postal circulation
The Russian Prosecutor's Office was established on January 12, 1722, in accordance with the Edict of his Imperial Majesty of Peter the Great to the Directing Senate. The prosecutorial system of that time was headed by an Attorney General subordinate to the Emperor. The main purpose of the prosecutor's office was to supervise the observance of the law. The first person whom the Emperor appointed the Attorney General of the Senate was Count Pavel Yaguzhinsky.
Since 1802, the institution of the Public Prosecutor's Office became an integral part of a newly formed Ministry of Justice, and the Minister of Justice by virtue of his position became an Attorney General. In November 1917, the highest government authority in the country, the Council of People's Commissars, adopted No. 1 Decree on Courts, which abolished pre-revolutionary courts, institutions of court investigators, procurator’s supervision, as well as jury and private advocateship. Their functions undertook the newly instituted people's courts and revolutionary tribunals. Special investigation commissions were formed to conduct preliminary investigations.
In May 1922, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted the first Regulations on Prosecutorial Supervision; in compliance with the document, the State Prosecutor's Office was established as part of the People's Commissariat of Justice. In November 1923, the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court of the USSR was formed. In June 1933, the Decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics passed a resolution to establish the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR. The Regulations on the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR approved in December of 1933 defined the legal status of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR as an independent government body.
In January 1992, after the breakup of the USSR, new Federal Law On the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation was adopted. At present, the prosecutor's offices attach great importance to timely provision of information for representative and executive authorities of all levels on the state of lawfulness in established practice in applying the law.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Count Pavel Yaguzhinsky (unknown Russian artist, 2nd half of the 18th century, Kuskovo Estate Museum); the margins of the postal block feature the emblem of the prosecutor's office, a portrait of Peter I, and the Instructions for the position of the Attorney General of the Senate, approved by Peter I (Russian State Historical Archive).
In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Block size: 90×75 mm; stamp size in the block: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 25 thousand blocks.
On November 23, a postage stamp dedicated to the Lukoil Oil Company will go into postal circulation
PJSC LUKOIL is one of the largest international private energy companies, accounting for over 2% of global oil production and about 1% of proved hydrocarbon reserves.
The name LUKOIL was formed from the initial letters of the names of Langepas, Uray and Kogalym cities where the Company's major oil producing enterprises are located.
Over 30 years of its operation, LUKOIL has become the world's leading company in the basic areas of its activities. Being engaged in crude oil and gas extracting, and their refinement into petroleum products and petrochemicals the Company supplies products, power and heat to millions of customers all over the world. LUKOIL operates in 6 federal districts (64 constituent entities) of the Russian Federation and over 30 countries worldwide.
The postage stamp provides an image of a family of LUKOIL employees against the background of the Company infrastructure facilities and the Oil exposition hall of the VDNKh.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow as well as an illustrated envelope with a postal stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×142 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 108 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).
On November 24, two postage stamps dedicated to the Russkie Vityazi and Strizhi aerobatics teams will go into postal circulation
Aerobatics teams Russkie Vityazi and Strizhi were formed almost simultaneously on April 5 and May 6, 1991. Both groups were named by their pilots themselves. The groups are based in Kubinka of the Moscow Region in the composition of the Aircraft Demonstration Center named after I.N. Kozhedub.
Russkie Vityazi is the only aerobatic team in the world performing aerobatics with the Su heavy combat fighters. In 2016, the Russian Vityazi team gradually switched over to a new type of aircraft, multirole fighters Su-30SM (serial, modernized).
Aerobatics team Strizhi performs flights with MiG-29. The current coloring for the Strizhi planes was suggested by the MiG Russian Aircraft Corporation in 2000. This is how the outlines of giant blue birds appeared on the top and bottom of the fuselage of the planes.
The renewed Strizhi and Russkie Vityazi formations (of six aircraft) have been performing since 2014. Each new pilot has to undergo profound training in order to qualify to fly in the team.
The postage stamps provide images of the aircraft of Russkie Vityazi (Su-30SM) and Strizhi (MiG-29) aerobatics teams.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Kubinka of the Moscow Region and Sevastopol, as well as an illustrated envelope with the postal stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 25 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 170×177 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (3×4) stamps in 4 strips (of 2 stamps and a coupon).
Quantity: 64 thousand each stamp (16 thousand each sheet).
On November 25, two postage stamps dedicated to tourism in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation will go into postal circulation
Arctic tourism in Russia is a part of tourism in Russia in the Arctic area, that is a physical and geographical region of the Earth adjacent to the North Pole and incorporating the continental margin in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Arctic Ocean and the land domains of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.
Tourist operators of the Russian Federation offer sea cruises, rafting, boating, fishing and hunting, skiing and hiking routes in the Arctic region. There is a trend of increasing interest of Russians in Arctic tourism. In 2009, the Russian Arctic national park was established in the northern part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. It is of interest from the viewpoint of both ecological and scientific and educational tourism.
In demand is the Arctic expedition tourism; its routes pass through the islands of the Arctic Ocean: Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, to the North Pole from Murmansk, along the coasts of the Baltic, Barents and White Seas, along the Chukchi Peninsula with a visit to Wrangel Island, along the coast of Sakhalin and Kamchatka, with visits to the Commander and Kuril Islands. The Development of domestic and inbound tourism (2019-2025) Federal Target Program specifies cruises as the main direction of tourism development in the Arctic.
The postal stamps provide images of Hooker Island, Tikhaya Bay, and Chump Island, stone balls.
In addition to the issue of the postal stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Penza and Krasnoyarsk, as well as an illustrated envelope with postal stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 24 and 56 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 124×60 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 2 stamps.
Quantity: 55 thousand each stamp (55 thousand each sheet).
On November 30, two postage stamps dedicated to Marshals of the Soviet Union Georgy K. Zhukov and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky will go into postal circulation
Georgy K. Zhukov (1896-1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, four-time Hero of the Soviet Union.
During the Great Patriotic War, he approved himself as a talented military leader who played a crucial role in the defeat of Nazi forces in the battles of Leningrad and Moscow, in breaking through the Siege of Leningrad, in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, in the military advance in Right-Bank Ukraine, as well as in Belorussian, Vistula-Oder and Berlin operations. On May 8, 1945, Georgy K. Zhukov enacted the Germany surrender, and on June 24, 1945, he inspected the Victory Parade on the Red Square in Moscow.
The postal stamp features painting Portrait of Marshal Zhukov by P.I. Kotov (1945, the State Tretyakov Gallery).
In addition to the issue of the postal stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kaluga.
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (1896-1968) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
During the Great Patriotic War, he commanded a mechanized corps, an army and fronts. In the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, the front under Rokossovsky's command, along with other fronts, managed to encircle 22 enemy divisions with the total number of 330 thousand people. During the Kursk operation, Rokossovsky’s Central Front caused disturbing casualties to the Nazi army. During the liberation mission in Belorussia, the First Belorussian Front under the command of K. Rokossovsky destroyed the German Army Group Center. At the final stages of the War, the Second Belorussian Front under Rokossovsky’s command participated in the East-Prussian, Pomeranian and Berlin operations.
On June 24, 1945, Konstantin K. Rokossovsky inspected the Victory Parade on the Red Square in Moscow.
The postal stamp features painting Portrait of K.K. Rokossovsky by P.I. Kotov (1946, State Russian Museum)
In addition to the issue of the postal stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk and Volgograd.
Besides, by the time of issuance of the two postal stamps, JSC Marka will produce a maxi-card and an illustrated envelope with the postal stamps, a label and First Day Covers with cancels for Moscow inside.
Design: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, sheet size: 168×177 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 12 (4×3) stamps.
Quantity: 156 thousand each stamp (13 thousand each sheet).
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