On May 3, a souvenir sheet dedicated to petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea will go into postal circulation for the 70th Anniversary of Accession of Russia to UNESCO
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was founded in 1945. The basic objective of the Organization is to favor the consolidation of peace and security by promoting collaboration among nations in the field of education, science and culture in order to ensure universal respect for justice, the reign of law and human rights for all peoples without distinction of race, sex, language or religion.
Russia has been a Member State of UNESCO since April 21 of 1954. To date, our country has 21 cultural and 11 natural World Heritage sites. In 2021, the Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea site was registered in UNESCO.
The postage stamps provide an image of petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a view on Lake Onega.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce a First Day Cover and special cancels for Moscow and Petrozavodsk.
Photo: K. Seleznev (petroglyphs of Lake Onega)
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 75 rubles (each stamp).
Souvenir sheet size: 130×110 mm; stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 37×50 mm.
Quantity: 19 thousand items.
On May 7, a stamp dedicated to the inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation will go into postal circulation
On March 15-17 of 2024, the election of the President of the Russian Federation took place. Vladimir Putin triumphed in election with 87.28% of the votes.
The President of the Russian Federation is the Head of the State, a guarantor of the Constitution, human and civil rights and freedoms. The President is elected for a term of six years via universal, equal and direct suffrage of citizens by secret ballot.
Inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation is an official ceremony of entrance upon duty of the head of state. The venue for the ceremony is the Grand Kremlin Palace.
On the solemn inauguration ceremony, the President takes the oath to the people in the presence of members of the Federation Council, deputies of the State Duma and judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The presidential decree also determines the symbols required for the ceremony. These are the Emblem of the President of the Russian Federation, his Standard, and a Copy of the Constitution, on which he takes the oath.
The postage stamp features a map of the Russian Federation and the Standard of the President of the Russian Federation.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Maykop, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, Tambov, Tver and Ufa.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 29 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 178×177 mm.; souvenir sheet size: 120×96 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 12 (3×4) stamps, a souvenir sheet with 1 stamp*.
Quantity: 156 thousand stamps (13 thousand sheets), 9 thousand souvenir sheets.
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
On May 8, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia will go into postal circulation
The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (prior to 1998, the Museum of Revolution) is a unique cultural heritage site of federal significance, one of the largest centers for the preservation, study and presentation of the history of Russia from the second half of the 19th century to the early 21st century. It was instituted by the Resolution of the Central Executive Committee on May 9, 1924.
At present time, the museum offers a new, high-tech museum display combining unique artefacts and modern multimedia technologies. The Museum of Contemporary History of Russia is the only museum in the country presenting the Contemporary Russian History.
The museum is a dynamically developing discussion, scientific, educational and enlightening platform, where topical issues of recent history and modern times are under debate.
The postage stamp provides an image of the building of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 142×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 15 (3×5) stamps
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).
On May 8, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to Heroes of the Soviet Union Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, and the Hero of the Russian Federation Viktor Tretyakevich will go into postal circulation in the On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
The names of heroes Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova and Viktor Tretyakevich are closely related to the Young Guard.
The Young Guard was a Soviet underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization of young men and women that was active during the Great Patriotic War (from September 1942 to January 1943), mainly in the town of Krasnodon, Voroshilovgrad Region of the Ukrainian SSR.
The Organization was established soon after Krasnodon occupation by Nazi Germany, which started on July 20, 1942. The Young Guard numbered above 100 participants.
The members of the Young Guard posted leaflets, collected weapons, burned grain and poisoned food intended for the occupants. Careless actions of the members of the underground organization on capturing a New Year's convoy with gifts for the Nazis in December of 1942 led to vindictive actions. On January 1 of 1943, mass arrests began. Dozens of young underground fighters were killed after terrible tortures without betraying their Homeland.
In memory of the anti-fascist heroes, an obelisk was installed with the names of the murdered Young Guard members. Besides, The Young Guard novel by A. Fadeev is dedicated to the feat of the underground fighters of Krasnodon; feature and documentary films about them have been produced, and streets in many cities of Russia and the former USSR bear their names.
The commemorative postage stamp presents an image of the emblem of celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945; the main illustration features portraits of the Young Guard members: Heroes of the Soviet Union Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, and the Hero of the Russian Federation Viktor Tretyakevich, who have their 100th Birth Anniversary this year.
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow and Lugansk.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets and V. Khablovsky.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes
On May 8, five stamps dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversaries of frontline writers Viktor Astafiev, Vladimir Bogomolov, Yuri Bondarev, Boris Vasilyev and Yulia Drunina will go into postal circulation
The Great Patriotic War has become one of the most documented subjects of Russian literature. A great contribution to the development of Soviet prose and poetry was made by frontline writers who entered the great literature in the late 1950s – early 1960s. Among them, there are V. Astafiev, V. Bogomolov, Yu. Bondarev, B. Vasiliev and Yu. Drunina. This year, each of them would celebrate the 100th Birth Anniversary.
Viktor Astafiev (1924-2001) was a Soviet and Russian writer, an essayist, a playwright and a screenwriter. On the outbreak of the war, he went to the front as a volunteer, fought as a private. Astafiev is the author of the Shepherd and His Wife, The Will to be Alive, The Cursed and Killed and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Viktor Astafiev against the background of an open book illustrating the writer's novel The Cursed and Killed.
Vladimir Bogomolov (1924-2003) was a writer. He fought in the North Caucasus, participated in the liberation of Taman, Zhitomir, and in the Kirovograd offensive operation. In September of 1944, he began to serve in the military counterintelligence. Bogomolov is the author of stories Ivan, Zosya, novels The Moment of Truth, In the Rail Car, The First Love, and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vladimir Bogomolov against the background of an illustration for the writer's novel The Moment of Truth.
Yury Bondarev (1924-2020) was a writer and a scriptwriter. As an artillery officer, he fought in 1942-1944 at Stalingrad, on the Dnieper, in the Carpathians. Bondarev is the author of novels The Battalions Request Fire, Silence, The Hot Snow, Non-Resistance, and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Yury Bondarev against the background of a winter scene with a tank illustrating the writer's novel The Hot Snow.
Boris Vasiliev (1924-2013) was a writer and a screenwriter. He went to the front as a volunteer in the composition of a Komsomol fighter battalion; later on, he served in the 8th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 3rd Guards Airborne Division. He is the author of the writings The Dawns Here are Quiet, The Ivan's Boat, Not Listed in the Lists, Tomorrow Was the War, The Head-On Battle and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Boris Vasiliev against the background of an open book illustrating the writer's novel The Dawns Here are Quiet.
Yulia Drunina (1924-1991) was a poet. From the beginning of the war until the end of 1944 she served as a combat medic in a rifle and then in an artillery regiment. She is the author of poems I Love as Poets Love..., There is no Such Thing as Unhappy Love, We are Faithful to our Vows, In a Soldier's Coat and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Yulia Drunina against the background of a scene with marching women illustrating the poet's poem The Rye Uncropped is Wavering.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Belgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh, Krasnoyarsk, Orenburg, Rostov-on-Don and Smolensk.
Design Artist: M. Podobed.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 129×95 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins (3×2) with 5 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 18 thousand sheets.
On May 12, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Shaposhnikov Caucasian State Nature Biosphere Reserve will go into postal circulation
The Christopher Shaposhnikov Caucasian State Nature Biosphere Reserve is the oldest specially protected natural area in the North Caucasus. It is the largest mountain-forest reserve in Europe; its total area exceeds 280 thousand hectares.
Its territory is located on the border of temperate and subtropical climatic zones. The distinctive feature of the Reserve is the high concentration of relict and endemic species of flora and fauna on its territory.
The animal world of the Reserve is very diverse: there are over 70 species of mammals, 15 species of reptiles, 9 species of amphibians, 21 species of fish, more than 100 species of mollusca, and about 10,000 species of insects. The ornithofauna accounts for 213 species of birds.
In 1999, the territory of the Reserve was put on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name of Western Caucasus. In January 2008, the Reserve was named after its founder, Christopher Shaposhnikov.
The Reserve successfully reintegrated into the wild the wisent, which had been exterminated by 1927. Since 2007, a project for the Persian leopard reintegration has been underway.
The postage stamp provides an image of a wisent as a symbol of the Caucasian State Nature Biosphere Reserve; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature neighborhoods of the Reserve, as well as the jubilee emblem.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce a First Day Cover and special cancels for Moscow, Krasnodar, Maykop, Sochi of the Krasnodar Territory and Cherkessk, as well as an illustrated cover with a souvenir sheet, a label and First Day Covers with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: A. Kradyshev.
Face value: 200 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 71×85 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 28×56 mm.
Quantity: 18 thousand souvenir sheets.
On May 28, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 225th Birth Anniversary of painter Karl Bryullov will go into postal circulation
Karl Bryullov (1799-1852) was a Russian painter and a drawing artist, a muralist and a watercolorist. He is the most famous representative of the artistic dynasty of the Bryullovs, one of the chief painters of late Russian classicism of the first half of the 19th century.
He was born in St. Petersburg on December 12 (23) of 1799. In 1809-1821, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The painter’s artworks are composed of contrasts of light and shadow; they are endowed with historical credibility, romantic spirit and distinguished with the assertion of sensual and plastic beauty of a human, dramatic tension of images, realistic tendencies and subtle psychological logic.
Karl Bryullov was the winner of honorable awards: Big Gold Medals for his paintings Three Angels Appearing to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre and The Last Day of Pompeii, and the Order of Saint Anna 3rd class; he was a member of the Milan and Parma Academies, the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome, as well as a professor of the St. Petersburg and Florence Academies of Arts.
The postage stamp provides painting by K. Bryullov Portrait of O.P. Ferzen (1835); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of the painter against the background of the studio.
In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as illustrated covers for the souvenir sheet with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for St. Petersburg and for the second emission type – an imperforated souvenir sheet made on canvas-type design paper.
Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 170 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 100×83 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 30×42 mm.
Quantity: 17 thousand souvenir sheets (the first emission type); 3.8 thousand souvenir sheets (the second emission type*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
On May 29, a stamp dedicated to the Eurasian Economic Union will go into postal circulation
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an international organization of regional economic integration with the international legal personality established by the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union signed on May 29, 2014, in Astana, the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Russia has been chairing in the Eurasian Economic Union since January 1 of 2023. The priorities of the Russian chairmanship of the EAEU for 2023 were defined by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
The postage stamp provides an image of the logo of the Eurasian Economic Union; in a circle, there are arranged flags of the participating countries: the Russian Federation, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 85 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 94×136 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (2×3) stamps.
Quantity: 54 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).
On May 31, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of music personality and educator Elena Gnesina will go into postal circulation
Elena Gnesina (1874-1967) was a pianist, the founder and the eternal head of a complex of educational institutions named after the Gnesins, an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1925), and an Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1935), a professor (1943).
Elena Gnesina was born on May 18 (30) of 1874 in Rostov-on-Don. She graduated from gymnasium, then from the Moscow Conservatoire in piano class under Vasily Safonov. In February 1895, with her sisters Evgenia and Maria, she established a music school, which later became the Gnesin Music School and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. She was the director, the artistic director and the professor of the school and, since 1944, of the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute. She is the author of The Piano Alphabet and other educational and methodological literature.
Elena Gnesina developed the best traditions of the Russian piano school. Among her famous pupils there were pianist L. Oborin, composer A. Khachaturian, conductor E. Svetlanov, and conductor G. Rozhdestvensky.
Gnesina received numerous state awards, including two Orders of Lenin (1945, 1954), two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1937, 1964) and medals.
The commemorative stamp features a portrait of Elena Gnesina against the music-sheet of her piece; the main illustration shows a monument to E. Gnesina and the buildings of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and the Gnesin Music School.
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow and Rostov-on-Don.
Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.
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