On November 1, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater will go into postal circulation
The Moscow Academic Satire Theater is a dramatic theater in Moscow located on Triumfalnaya Square.
It opened on October 1, 1924. The first performance of the theater was Moscow from the Viewpoint by V. Tipot and N. Erdman.
By 1930, the theater moved to a new auditorium that seated more than 800 spectators. In 1951, it moved to a building on Malaya Bronnaya Street. In 1953, it began to stage performances after stage plays The Bathhouse, The Bedbug and Mystery Buff by V. Mayakovsky. Significant events were the productions of Was there Ivan Ivanovich? by N. Hikmet, Tyorkin in the Other World by A. Tvardovsky and Profitable Place by A. Ostrovsky.
The main productions in the 1960s were Don Juan, or The Love of Geometry by M. Frisch, The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro by P. Beaumarchais, The Inspector General by N. Gogol, Woe from Wit by A. Griboyedov and others.
In 1984, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR awarded the theater the title of Academic Theater. In 2015, the Satire Theater was recognized as one of the most visited Moscow theaters.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp provides an image of the building of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater; the commemorative stamp features four actor's emotion masks symbolizing theatrical genres and the emblem of the theater.
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.
On November 15, three postage stamps dedicated to Estates of Russian painters will go into postal circulation in the Cultural Heritage of Russia series
K. Korovin's dacha (country house) in the village of Okhotino of the Yaroslavl Region. In 1897, K. Korovin bought a plot of land from philanthropist S. Mamontov where by 1903 he built a house. There Korovin spent summer months; he was visited by friends: F. Chaliapin, V. Serov, A. Kuprin. The last time he came to the dacha was in the spring of 1921 and found it already ruined. In Soviet times, the house accommodated a school. The museum was opened here in 2015.
V. Polenov’s State Memorial Historical, Art and Natural Museum-Reserve in the Tula Region. The main house in the Scandinavian style and the workshop called Abbey were built according to the V. Polenov’s designs. The territory of the estate is home for a Children's House, a half-timbered barn and the Admiralty - a boat hutment. The Admiralty houses The Diorama - the last major work by V. Polenov. There is a picturesque path from the estate to the Church of the Holy Trinity, which was built according to V. Polenov's design in the village of Bekhovo.
I. Repin's Penaty Estate Museum in the village of Repino. Today, the Estate is a branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. I. Repin purchased the plot of land in 1899. In 1940, a memorial museum was opened in Repin's house in Penaty, but during the Great Patriotic War, the building was burnt to ashes. After the War, the house was restored and the museum was reopened on July 24, 1962. The Estate is a monument of cultural and historical heritage of the federal protection level and a UNESCO heritage site.
The postage stamps provide images of the painters’ estates decorated with drawings of the artist's palette and a decorative ribbon.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tula and Yaroslavl.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 31 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 170×178 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 12 (3×4) stamps.
Quantity: 36 thousand each stamp (9 thousand sheets).
On November 16, a postage stamp dedicated to the International Educational Campaign Geographical Dictation will go into postal circulation
Since 2015, the Russian Geographical Society has been holding annually the Geographical Dictation. It is an international educational campaign with the task to promote geographical knowledge and increase interest in science and national heritage.
Participation in the dictation is voluntary and free of charge. Participants can be residents of Russia and foreign countries who speak Russian, regardless of age, education, social identity, confession and citizenship. The dictation consists of 30 tasks of varying degree of complexity.
In the autumn of 2024, the tenth International Educational Campaign Geographical Dictation will be held in Russia and abroad. The event will take place on November 16 and 17 of 2024.
The postage stamp provides an image of the logo of the International Educational Campaign Geographical Dictation.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, Penza, Ryazan and Yakutsk.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 31 rubles.
Stamp size (diam): 30 mm, sheet size: 141×141 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).
On November 18, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 125th Birth Anniversary of Mikhail Vodopyanov, an aircraft pilot, a Hero of the Soviet Union, will go into postal circulation in the framework of the On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
Mikhail Vodopyanov (1899–1980) was a Soviet aircraft pilot, a participant in the Chelyuskin expedition rescue operation in 1934, one of the seven first Heroes of the Soviet Union (1934), a Participant of high-latitude Arctic expeditions. He was a Major General of Aviation (1943).
Mikhail Vodopyanov was born on November 6 (18), 1899, in the village of Bolshiye Studyonki (presently, part of the city of Lipetsk) of the Lipetsk Uyezd, Tambov Province. In 1929, he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Technical School and worked in the Transaviation Far Eastern Air Lines Directorate of the Dobrolyot Company in Khabarovsk. On January 10 of 1930, onboard the plane Junkers F-13 (flight number SSSR-127) he laid the air route Khabarovsk - Okha - Alexandrovsk-on-Sakhalin. In 1934, he insisted on being sent to participate in the rescue operation of the team of the Chelyuskin steamship. Onboard an R-5 airplane, he made a flight of almost 6,500 km from Khabarovsk to Vankarem accompanied by V. Galyshev and I. Doronin. In March of 1935, he made a flight along the route Moscow - Sverdlovsk - Omsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Chita - Khabarovsk - Nikolaevsk-on-Amur - Okhotsk - Magadan - Gizhiga - Anadyr - Uelen - Cape Schmidt in order to lay a new air path for the arrangement of postal and passenger communications.
Mikhail Vodopyanov was a participant in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 as the commander of the TB-3 heavy bomber. He participated in the Great Patriotic War from July of 1941 as the commander of the 81st Long Range Bomber Aviation Division. In 1948-1950s, he participated in the military high-latitude expeditions Sever (North) and Sever-2 (North-2).
M. Vodopyanov is the author of two dozens of biographical books about the conquest of the sky, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp provides a portrait of Major General of Aviation Mikhail Vodopyanov against a panorama of Berlin and flying TB-7 airplanes; the commemorative stamp features the emblem of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow, Tambov and Lipetsk.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets and R. Komsa.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.
On November 20, a postage stamp dedicated to a bridge under construction over the Oka River of the M-12 Highway will go into postal circulation in the framework of the Architectural Structures. Bridges series
The bridge over the Oka River in the city of Murom in the Vladimir Region on the M-12 Vostok highway is the first cable-braced bridge on the network of high-speed highways of the Avtodor State Company.
On December 21 of 2023, the traffic was launched on the span of M-12 Vostok from Moscow to Kazan. The highway runs via the territory of five regions: Moscow, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod Regions, the Chuvash Republic and the Republic of Tatarstan.
The M-12 Vostok high-speed highway is a part of the Europe - Western China international transportation route. The length of the highway is more than 800 km. In the course of construction, more than 300 artificial structures were built, including three unique bridges: a cable-braced bridge over the Oka River, a one-piece bridge over the Sura River and a 3-km long bridge over the Volga River. The M-12 Vostok highway has 19 traffic interchanges with federal and major regional highways.
The postage stamp provides an image of the bridge over the Oka River on the M-12 Vostok highway in the Vladimir Region.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Murom of the Vladimir Region, as well as a maxi-card, an illustrated cover with postage stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Murom of the Vladimir Region inside.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 72 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 15 (3×5) stamps.
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).
On November 27, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Polar explorer Alexander Kolchak will go into postal circulation in the Geographical Projects of Russia series
Alexander Kolchak (1874-1920) was a Russian state figure, a politician and a military leader, an oceanographer, a polar explorer (1900-1903), a naval commander (1915-1917), who went down in history as the leader of the White Movement during the Russian Civil War. He held the title of Supreme Ruler of Russia (November 18, 1918 - February 7, 1920) and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army (November 1918 - January 4, 1920); he was a participant of the Russo-Japanese War and World War I; a Holder of St. George, an admiral (1918).
Kolchak was born on November 4 (16), 1874, in the village of Alexandrovskoye of Petersburg Uyezd. Having graduated from the Naval Cadet School, he was promoted to warrant officer and went to serve on warships in the Baltic Sea and later on in the Pacific Ocean. In 1900, A. Kolchak was detached to the Academy of Sciences, and he became a member of the Russian polar expedition of Baron E. von Toll. Three years later, he headed a search for the baron who did not return from Bennett Island. Following the expedition results, A. Kolchak published a number of scientific papers, was elected a Full Member of the Russian Geographical Society and was awarded a Gold Konstantinov Medal for “an outstanding geographical feat associated with endeavors and danger”.
In 1909-1910, he made a passage on icebreaker Vaygach from the Baltic Sea through the Indian Ocean to Vladivostok, and then towards Cape Dezhnev.
The main illustration shows a portrait of A. Kolchak against the background of icebreaker Vaygach and the RGS logo; the commemorative stamp features images that symbolically represent geographical projects.
In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Design Artists: S. Kapranov and I. Ulyanovsky.
Quantity: 4.5 thousand postcards.
On November 28, stamp booklet The Grand Kremlin Palace will go into postal circulation
The Grand Kremlin Palace is one of the Moscow Kremlin palaces. It was constructed in 1838−1849 by order of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia by famous architect from St Petersburg K. Thon. The Palace serves as the ceremonial residence of the head of state.
The five reception halls on the first floor of the Palace – the Halls of the Orders of St. Andrew, of St. Alexander, of St. George, of St. Vladimir and of St. Catherine - are dedicated to Russian orders with their elements embedded in the stucco decoration of each hall.
Presently, the Grand Kremlin Palace is the venue for the most ceremonial events of national importance.
The stamp booklet contains 5 postage stamps and a souvenir sheet from The Grand Kremlin Palace series that were put into postal circulation in 2019–2024.
Artist: V. Nikonov, Design: M. Bodrova (stamps); N. Karpova (booklet).
Face values of the stamps: 53 rubles, 54 rubles, 56 rubles, 60 rubles, 67 rubles and 175 rubles.
Stamp booklet size: 137×97 mm.
Quantity: 2 thousand booklets.
On November 29, a stamp devoted to Fyodor Uglov, a surgeon, a writer, a public figure, a professor, will go into postal circulation
Fyodor Uglov (1904-2008) was a Soviet and Russian surgeon, an academician and a public figure.
Fyodor Uglov was born on September 22 (October 5), 1904, in the village of Chuguevo of the Irkutsk Province. He was educated at the Medical Faculty of the Saratov State University.
Since 1950, F. Uglov headed the Department of Hospital Surgery in the Pavlov First Medical Institute.
On April 8, 1946, for the first time in the USSR, he successfully performed a surgery operation of elimination of two lobes of the right lung. He was the first in the world to invent a new incision for heart surgery, which permits only to fold back temporarily the chest wall protecting the heart to expose the organ instead of its extraction.
In 1994, he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest practicing surgeon in the history of medicine.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Fyodor Uglov against the background of an operation under his guidance.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk.
Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 72 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 63 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
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