On March 1, a stamp dedicated to the World Youth Festival 2024 in Russia will go into postal circulation
The World Youth Festival is an international festival to be held in the Russian Federation in the period from March 1 to 7 of 2024 in the Sirius federal territory. The slogan of the Festival is Let's start the future together!.
The festival will be held in order to develop international youth co-operation. It is expected that the Festival will be attended by about 20,000 people from more than 100 countries: participants from the field of business, media, international cooperation, culture, volunteer services and charity work, sports and various spheres of life.
The regional program of the World Youth Festival will take place from March 10 to 17 of 2024, with foreign participants visiting 30 Russian cities. The organization and conduction of the Festival will involve 5 thousand volunteers from all regions of Russia.
The postage stamp provides an image of the logo of the World Youth Festival.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Kaliningrad and Sochi of the Krasnodar Territory, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with the postage stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Sochi of the Krasnodar Territory inside.
Design: M. Korneeva.
Face value: 85 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×30 mm, sheet size: 174×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 16 (4×4) stamps.
Quantity: 112 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On March 5, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Murzilka magazine will go into postal circulation
Murzilka is a monthly literary magazine that has been in production since 1924; it is intended for children aged from 6 to 12. Until 1991, it was a magazine of the Central Committee of Komsomol and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin; currently it is issued by the “Murzilka” Magazine Editors LLC. It was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1974) and is a laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2014). In 2012, it was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the children's magazine with the longest continuous period of publication.
In 1937, renowned artist Aminadav Kanevsky created a fairy-tale character named Murzilka.
The greatest advantage of the magazine is high-quality children's literature illustrated by talented artists such as E. Charushin, Yu. Vasnetsov, A. Kanevsky, T. Mavrina, V. Chizhikov. In different years, it published outstanding authors such as A. Barto, K. Chukovsky, S. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov, E. Uspensky and others. At present, the magazine continues to publish works by contemporary authors.
The postage stamp provides an image of Murzilka.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with a sheet with formatted margins with four postage stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: N. Karpova.
Face value: 70 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×50×70 mm, sheet size: 80×80 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 4 stamps.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (15 thousand sheets).
On March 7, four stamps dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Caucasian State Reserve will go into postal circulation in the Flora of Russia series
The Caucasus ecosystems are distinguished for exceptional biodiversity and are home to many rare plant species. Today, there are two large areas with virtually undisturbed mountain-forest, mountain-meadow and subniveal ecosystems in the western part of the Greater Caucasus: the Caucasian and Teberda Nature Reserves. The Caucasus State Reserve is located in the Western Caucasus within three entities of the Russian Federation: the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Adygea and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Its territory comprises many mountain formations with original and unique flora peculiar only for the Western Caucasus region. Every fifth plant in the Caucasus Reserve is an endemic or a relic.
Some of them are featured on postage stamps: Caucasian rhododendron, golden pasque flower, broad-leaved fritillaria and twice-serrated yarrow.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Maykop, Penza, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Sochi of the Krasnodar Territory, Tomsk, Cherkessk and Yaroslavl, as well as maxi-cards and an illustrated cover with postage stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 67 rubles.
Stamp size: 36.5×29 mm, sheet size: 100×150 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 54 thousand each stamp (27 thousand sheets).
On March 7, two stamps featuring the Order of Gagarin and the Order of Mother Heroine will go into postal circulation in the State Awards of the Russian Federation series
State awards of the Russian Federation are the highest form of encouraging nationals for transcendental merits to the Homeland defense, nation-building, economy, science, culture, Arts, upbringing, education, protection of citizens’ health, life and rights, charity activities and other achievements for the state.
The state awards are instituted and granted by the President of the Russian Federation.
The Order of Gagarin was instituted on May 27 of 2023.
The Order of Gagarin is to be conferred on citizens of the Russian Federation for successful performance of manned space programs to explore and use of outer space; for outstanding services in organization and successful implementation of a manned space mission; for outstanding services in the development, production, testing and accident-free operation of rocket and space equipment, as well as for development and introduction of new technologies and conduction of efficient scientific research.
The Order of Mother Heroine is a special insignia instituted on August 15 of 2022.
The title of Mother Heroine is the highest degree of honor for women who have given birth and raised ten or more children. The awardee and her children are citizens of the Russian Federation and form a socially responsible family ensuring an appropriate level of care for health, education, physical, spiritual and moral development.
The postage stamps provide images of the Order of Gagarin and of the special insignia - the Order of Mother Heroine.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kaluga.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 90 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×65 mm, sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Emission form: sheets with formatted margins (4×2) with 7 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 56 thousand each stamp (8 thousand each sheet).
On March 18, a stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Nikolai Berdyaev, a philosopher, a sociologist, will go into postal circulation
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a religious and political philosopher, a sociologist, a representative of Russian existentialism and personalism.
Nikolai Berdyaev became one of the leading figures of the movement that criticized the ideology of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia. This trend first announced itself with the collection of articles Problems of Idealism (1902), then collections Landmarks (1909) and Out of the Depths (1918), which gave a sharply negative assessment of the role of radicals in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Berdyaev wrote many articles and books, including The Meaning of the Creative Act and The Meaning of History.
After the revolution of 1917, he founded the Free Academy of Spiritual Culture that existed for three years from 1919 until 1922.
In September of 1922, he was expelled from the USSR. He lived first in Berlin, and then moved to Paris in 1924. He was the editor of the journal of Russian religious thought The Pathway and actively participated in the European philosophical process.
Among the books published by N. Berdyaev in exile are the New Middle Ages (1924), the Destiny of a Person. Experience of Paradoxical Ethics (1931), On Human Slavery and Freedom. The Experience of Personalistic Philosophy (1939), The Russian Idea (1946), The Experience of Eschatological Metaphysics. Creativity and Objectification (1947). The books published after N. Berdyaev’s death are Self-Knowledge. An Essay in Autobiography (1949), The Spirit Realm and the Kingdom of Caesar (1951) and others.
The postage stamp features a portrait of N. Berdyaev and his works.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Design Artist: V. Beltyukov.
Face value: 67 rubles.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 160×96 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).
On March 19, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of urologist N. Lopatkin will go into postal circulation
Nikolai Lopatkin (1924-2013) was an outstanding Russian scientist, the originator of Russian urology, a graduate of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, the founder and the Head of the Research Institute of Urology, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a Hero of Socialist Labor. He headed the Urology Department of the 2nd Order of Lenin Moscow Medical Institute in 1968-1991, was a Doctor of Medical Sciences (1959), a Professor (1964), an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998).
In 1947, he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. In 1953, he defended a thesis for a Candidate of Medical Sciences themed Penicillin Penetration through Pleural Laminae, and in 1959, a thesis for a Doctor of Medical Sciences entitled Renal Angiography. Since 1962, Nikolai Lopatkin was a professor, and since 1968, the Head of the Department of Urology and Operative Nephrology of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.
N. Lopatkin introduced into clinical practice a number of the latest methods of diagnostics and treatment in the field of urology and nephrology. In 1958, in cooperation with A. Pytel, he was the first in the USSR to use a renal dialyzer; besides, he initiated the creation of chronic hemodialysis departments in the USSR. Since 1966, he headed the research into problems of surgical treatment of patients with the terminal chronic renal failure, as well as deceased-donor kidney transplantation. He was the first in the USSR to develop and introduce into clinical practice extracorporeal kidney operations and an original autotransplantation technique.
On Lopatkin's initiative, the Research Institute of Urology of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR (presently the Russian Federation) was established in Moscow, which he headed over the period of 1979-2007.
The postage stamp features a portrait of N. Lopatkin against the background of some of his scientific works.
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: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 160×96 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 56 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On March 27, ten postage stamps dedicated to professions of staffers of the Federal Service of National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation will go into postal circulation
The Russian National Guard is a federal executive authority responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and statutory regulation in the field of the state and public security, protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, arms circulation, private security activities and extra-departmental protection.
The National Guard troops are a Russian military organization intended to maintain state and public security as well as to ensure human and civil rights and freedoms.
The National Guard troops are entrusted with the following tasks: maintaining of public order, ensuring public security; close protection of major state facilities, special cargoes and buildings; combating terrorism and extremism; ensuring emergency situation regime, martial law situation, legal regime of counter-terrorist operation; territorial defense of the Russian Federation; assistance to border authorities of the Federal Security Service in protecting the state border of the Russian Federation; control over compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of arms trafficking and private security activities; ensuring security of fuel and energy facilities; protection of particularly important and sensitive facilities; protection of property of physical and legal entities under contracts; ensuring security of top officials.
The postage stamps present military units of the Federal Service of National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation:
— aviation and artillery units;
— extra-departmental security service;
— military units for the protection of critical state facilities and special cargoes;
— engineer service;
— canine service;
— naval military units and subdivisions;
— licensing service units;
— riot police forces;
— special operations forces;
— special motorized military units.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kaliningrad.
Design Artists: M. Podobed, S. Kapranov, S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 67 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 141×183 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (3×4) 10 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 20 thousand each stamp (20 thousand sheets).
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