On May 7, five postage stamps dedicated to painters Aleksandr Deyneka, Geliy Korzhev, Evsey Moiseyenko, Georgy Moskalev and Vladimir Pereyaslavets will go into postal circulation
The Great Patriotic War has become one of the most highlighted subjects in the fine arts. The stamps of this issue feature artworks by A. Deyneka, G. Korzhev, E. Moiseyenko, G. Moskalev and V. Pereyaslavets.
Aleksandr Deyneka (1899–1969) was a Russian Soviet painter, a muralist, a graphic artist, a sculptor and an educator. During the Great Patriotic War, he made political posters for the Windows of TASS military defense poster workshop, and he used to go to the front. Some of his famous artworks are The Mother, To-be Pilots, The Defense of Sevastopol, The Downed Ace and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Aleksandr Deyneka against the backdrop of his painting Onboard a Ship.
Geliy Korzhev (1925–2012) was a Soviet and Russian artist, a painter and an educator. He is an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1970; a Corresponding Member since 1962), a People's Artist of the USSR (1979), a Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1987) and the Repin State Prize of the RSFSR (1966). During the War, he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School and then, from 1944 to 1950, at the V. Surikov Moscow Art Institute. G. Korzhev's work is dedicated to severe civil themes; his paintings show the fate of the post-war generation. Some of his famous artworks are Lovers, The Safety Screen, Clouds of 1945, A Glass of Milk and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Geliy Korzhev against the backdrop of his painting Seeing-Off.
Evsey Moiseyenko (1916–1988) was a Soviet painter and a tutor. He is an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973; a Corresponding Member since 1962), a Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). The main theme of his work was the War: suffering, the height of the human spirit, tragic losses and the happiness of Victory. Some of his famous artworks are Partisans, the series This cannot be forgotten, Mothers, Sisters, Van-Couriers, The Victory, Veterans, A Song and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Evsey Moiseyenko against the backdrop of his painting Victory from the Years of War series.
Georgy Moskalev (1925–2011) was a Soviet and Russian graphic artist and an illustrator a Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). He is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982), a People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR (1975), a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1957. In the 1970s, he worked as a graphic artist; the main theme he chose was the Great Patriotic War. Some of his famous artworks are The Battle for the Danube, The Breakthrough, The Dawn, One to One and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Georgy Moskalev against the backdrop of his painting One to One.
Vladimir Pereyaslavets (1918–2018) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a tutor, an artist of the M. Grekov Studio of Military Artists (1950), an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2002; a Corresponding Member since 1995), a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). He was a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of the USSR, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1957). V. Pereyaslavets worked in the genre of easel painting, portrait, landscape and still life. Some of his famous artworks are Descendants of Pushkin - Participants of the Great Patriotic War, Three Generations of Russian Sailors, The Youth of Our Sky, Flying about a Great Deal, 50 Years Later, The Victory Day, and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Vladimir Pereyaslavets against the backdrop of his painting Air Fight.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk and Ulan-Ude.
Design Artist: M. Podobed.
Face value: 80 rubles each stamp.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 129×96 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (3×2) 5 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 18 thousand sheets.
On May 7, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the members of the Young Guard organization Vladimir Osmukhin, Georgy Arutyunyants and a Hero of the Soviet Union Sergey Tyulenin 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 Sergey Tyulenin, Vladimir Osmukhin and Georgy Arutyunyants are closely related to the Young Guard organization.
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 the beginning of Krasnodon occupation by Nazi Germany, which started on July 20, 1942. 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 Nazis in December of 1942 led to vindictive actions. From 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 envelope provides portraits of the Young Guard members: Hero of the Soviet Union Sergey Tyulenin (1925–1943), as well as Vladimir Osmukhin (1925–1943) and Georgy Arutyunyants (1925–1973).
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow, Lugansk and Orel.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets and V. Khablovsky.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.
On May 8, four stamps dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversaries of frontline writers Konstantin Vanshenkin, Evgeny Vinokurov, Evgeny Nosov and Pyotr Todorovsky will go into postal circulation
Frontline writers are a whole generation of true patriots of the country, who relied in their books on real events and oftentimes on their own frontline experience.
A great contribution to the development of Soviet prose and poetry was made by writers who entered the great literature in the late 1950s – early 1960s. These include such authors as K. Vanshenkin, E. Vinokurov, E. Nosov and P. Todorovsky.
Konstantin Vanshenkin (1925–2012) was a Soviet and Russian poet, a Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1985) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001). He is the author of the novels Army Youth, Avdyushin and Egorychev, Big Fires, The Decanter with a Rooster, and short stories. In total, K. Vanshenkin published more than three dozen books of poetry and prose. He wrote the lyrics of popular songs I Love You, Life, Alyosha, the Waltz of Parting, Zhenka, There's Not Enough Light Behind the Window, How to See Off the Steamers, I'm in a Hurry, Excuse Me, Poplars, Nonflying Weather, etc.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Konstantin Vanshenkin against the background of an illustration for the writer's poem Spring.
Evgeny Vinokurov (1925–1993) was a Russian Soviet poet, a translator and an educator, a Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1987), a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. His first poems were published in 1948 in the Smena magazine. He is the author of poems and collections Poems about Duty, Sergezhka from Malaya Bronnaya, Blue Expanse, Genesis, Hypostasis and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Evgeny Vinokurov against the background of an illustration for the writer's poem Moscovites.
Evgeny Nosov (1925–2002) was a Russian and Soviet writer, a graphic artist, a Hero of Socialist Labor (1990), a Holder of two Orders of Lenin (1984, 1990), a Winner of the Gorky State Prize of the RSFSR (1975) a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. He was included into editorial boards of magazines Nash Sovremennik, Podyom and Roman-Gazeta. E. Nosov is the author of short stories Rainbow, On the fishing trail, A Doll, Where the sun wakes up, Red wine of Victory, the novel Usvyatsk Helmet-Bearers, the essay I will get off at the distant station and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Evgeny Nosov against the background of an illustration for the writer's novel Usvyatsk Helmet-Bearers.
Pyotr Todorovsky (1925–2013) was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, a film director, a cameraman, a composer, an actor, a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985), an Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1967), a Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996) and the Nika Film Award (1993, 2004). He was an Oscar nominee (1985) in the category Best Foreign Language Film for his film Wartime Romance (1983). Pyotr Todorovsky is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He made his feature film debut with the film Moldavian Tunes. As an actor, he starred in the films It Was in May and The Morass. The military theme is a special one in the film director's work. His poignant films Wartime Romance, In the Constellation of the Bull and Riorita are dedicated to it.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Pyotr Todorovsky against the background of an illustration for the film In the Distant Forty-Fifth... Meetings on the Elbe based on his screenplay.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Kursk, and Bryansk.
Design Artist: M. Podobed.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 94×95 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 4 (2×2) stamps.
Quantity: 18 thousand sheets.
On May 14, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Kirill Lavrov, an actor, a People’s Artist of the USSR, will go into postal circulation in the Cavaliers of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland series
Kirill Lavrov (1925-2007) was an actor and director of theatre and cinema, a public figure. He was a Hero of Socialist Labor (1985), a People's Artist of the USSR (1972), a winner of the Lenin Prize (1982), the State Prize of the USSR (1978) and the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1974), the Cavalier of the Order of Lenin (1985). Kirill Lavrov was an Academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia and the Nika Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts.
Kirill Lavrov was born on September 15, 1925, in Leningrad. During the Great Patriotic War, K. Lavrov was in evacuation in the Kirov Region and Novosibirsk. At the age of 17, he volunteered for the army. He did military service until 1950. When in the army, he participated in amateur talent groups and played in amateur performances.
In 1950, he joined the company of the Lesya Ukrainka Theatre of Russian Drama in Kiev as an understudy actor. In 1955, he was invited to the M. Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre, where he played several dozen parts. In 1989, he became Artistic Director of the theatre and remained in this position until the end of his life.
He began his film career in 1955 with the film Vasyok Trubachev and His Comrades. He played his first leading part in the film A Quarrel in Lukashy, shot at the Lenfilm studio. He also starred in the following films: Believe Me, People, The Alive and the Dead, The Brothers Karamazov, Neutral Waters, Taming of the Fire, Trust, My Tender and Gentle Beast, A Glass of Water, The Charlotte's Necklace, Bandit Petersburg, The Master and Margarita. As a film director, in cooperation with M. Ulyanov, he made the third series of the film The Brothers Karamazov.
Kirill Lavrov was a prominent political figure in the area of culture and arts; he actively participated in the public life of the USSR and the Russian Federation. From 1980, he headed the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Theatre Society and the Union of Theatre Workers of the USSR. In 1992, he was elected President of the International Confederation of Theatre Unions. From 1992 to 2007, he was a member of the Commission on Science, Culture, Education and Information of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries, a member of the Committee for State Awards under the President of the Russian Federation.
Awards: an Order of the October Revolution (1971), an Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975), an Order of Lenin (1985), an Order for Merit to the Fatherland, the fourth class (1995), an Order for Merit to the Fatherland, the third class (2000), an Order for Merit to the Fatherland, the second class (2005), and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Kirill Lavrov and the Order for Merit to the Fatherland.
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: R. Komsa.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 142×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with (3×5) 14 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 98 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On May 15, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Lyudmila Kasatkina, a stage and screen actress, a People’s Artist of the USSR, will go into postal circulation
Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925-2012) was a Soviet theatre and film actress, a People's Artist of the USSR (1975) a Winner of the Vasiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976) and the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968).
Lyudmila Kasatkina was born on May 15 of 1925 in the village of Novoye Selo, Vyazemsky Uyezd of the Smolensk Province. In 1943, she entered the A. Lunacharsky State Institute of Theater Arts. In 1947, upon graduation from the Institute, she was accepted into the company of the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army, where she worked all her life. In 1954, she made her debut in cinema, starring in the lead role in the comedy The Tiger Tamer. In 1964, Kasatkina starred in the title role in the first Soviet TV serial film Calling Fire on Yourself based on the novel of the same name by Ovidiy Gorchakov and Janusz Przymanowski. She hosted two Blue Lights shows: on the 25th Anniversary of Victory Day on May 9 of 1970 and on the 29th Anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on June 22 of 1970. She gave classes at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts and Smolensk State Institute of Arts.
Awards: an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the fourth class (2000), an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the third class (2005), an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the second class (2010), an Order of Friendship (1995), an Order of the Badge of Honor (1967), an Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1980), an Order of Lenin (1985) and others.
The commemorative stamp features a portrait of Lyudmila Kasatkina against the background of a film and a theatre curtain; the main illustration is a shot from the film The Tiger Tamer.
In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow and Smolensk.
Design Artists: M. Bodrova.
Quantity: 5 thousand postcards.
On May 20, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to Semyon Gretsov, a junior sergeant of the medical service and a Cavalier of six For Bravery medals will go into postal circulation in the On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
Semyon Gretsov (1908-1975) was a Soviet service member, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a sanitary instructor, the only one awarded six medals For Bravery, a junior sergeant of medical service.
He was born on March 10 of 1908 in the village of Nizhnedorozhnoye, Yastrebovsky District (presently Gorshechensky District) of the Kursk Region. He was at the front since July of 1941. He began his battle route as a private of the 115th artillery regiment. After a concussion, Semyon Gretsov was about to be invalided out, but at his own insistence he was transferred to the position of a sanitary instructor, where he served until the end of the Great Patriotic War. For bravery and courage manifested in the service, he was awarded six For Bravery medals. Besides, he was awarded medals For the Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany, and For Labor Valor.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp provides a portrait of Semyon Gretsov against the backdrop of an illustration of his military feat.
In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk, and Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets and V. Khablovsky.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.
On May 22, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper will go into postal circulation
The Komsomolskaya Pravda social and political newspaper has been published since 1925. The first issue that appeared on May 24, 1925, had a circulation of 31,000 copies. The newspaper regularly addressed the issue of participation of young people in the collectivization of agriculture, in the construction projects of the first five-year plan (Dneproges, Moscow and Gorky automobile plants, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, etc.).
From the very beginning, Komsomolskaya Pravda published works by well-known Soviet writers and poets. Over four years, V. Mayakovsky was on the staff of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The newspaper published war essays by A. Gaidar, chapters from the Young Guard novel by A. Fadeev. From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, the newspaper published front reports, numerous letters from and to the frontline. After the end of the war, the newspaper actively participated in mobilizing young people for the restoration of the national economy. In the second half of the 1980s, it supported the reforms carried out by M. Gorbachev. Until October of 1990, it was an organ of the Central Committee of Komsomol, and on October 29 of 1990, it was registered with the State Committee for Press of the USSR. From December 1, Komsomolskaya Pravda began to be published under the header All-Union Daily Newspaper. In 1991, joint-stock company Komsomolskaya Pravda was established.
Today, Komsomolskaya Pravda is a nationwide Russian newspaper. It is published in more than 40 cities in Russia, most of the former Soviet republics and is distributed throughout the CIS, as well as in Western Europe, the USA, and Israel.
The postage stamp provides symbols of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, as well as its awards: an Order of Honor, an Order of Lenin, an Order of October Revolution, an Order of Patriotic War, the first class, and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Donetsk, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov, Simferopol, Stavropol and Chelyabinsk.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm, sheet size: 155×161 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 80 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).
On May 22, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 175th Birth Anniversary of Ivan Mushketov, a geologist and a geographer, will go into postal circulation in the Geographical Projects of Russia series
Ivan Mushketov (1850-1902) was a Russian geology scientist, a Professor at the Catherine II Mining Institute, a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
He was born on January 10 (22) of 1850 in the village of Alekseyevskaya, which at that time was the center of the Khopyorsky District of the Don Army. In June of 1872, he graduated from the Mining Institute with a diploma of mining engineer. I. Mushketov actively explored Central Asia, conducted geological surveys in the Urals, the Caucasus, as well as researches along the Circum-Baikal railway (Trans-Siberian railway) in Eastern Siberia. He reported on the results of his research of Central Asia in his paper Turkestan, where he described in detail the geological and orographic structure of the large region. In cooperation with G. Romanovsky, he compiled the first geological map of Turkestan.
Ivan Mushketov organized a Russian service of permanent seismic observations, which he initially headed. He also gave classes of physical geography at the Historical and Philological Institute (1883-1892), at the St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers (1884-1902), at the Higher Women's Courses and at the P.F. Lesgaft Physical Education Courses.
In the capacity of generalization of all his scientific research results, he wrote the seminal work Physical Geology, which became a new word not only in domestic but also in the global science of that time.
The main illustration shows a portrait of Ivan Mushketov against the map with the routes of the scientist's expeditions and the RGO 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, St. Petersburg and Volgograd.
Design Artists: S. Kapranov and R. Komsa.
Quantity: 5 thousand postcards.
On May 28, a postage stamp dedicated to the Moscow Metro will go into postal circulation
The Moscow underground railway (Moscow Metro) is rail-based off-street (mostly underground) urban public transport with electric traction, located in Moscow and partially in the Moscow Region. It is historically the first and largest underground railway in the USSR and Russia, and one of the largest in the world.
On May 15 of 1935, the first 11.2 km long metro line between Sokolniki and Park Kultury stations with a branch line to the Smolenskaya station opened in Moscow. The initiator of the construction was the head of the Party organization of the capital L. Kaganovich. In 1935-1938, the construction of sections of the second phase was underway. The projects of the third phase of the Moscow Metro were continued during the war, the construction was resumed already in May of 1942. After the end of the war, the construction of the fourth phase of the Metro started. Soviet architects strived not only to make the stations convenient for passengers, but also to give each of them a unique appearance.
Today, the Moscow Metro consists of 15 lines with the length of about 471.7 km in double-track calculation, not including a monorail track, the Moscow Central Circle and Moscow Central Dameters, and has 271 stations, of which more than 40 stations are cultural heritage monuments.
The postage stamp provides an image of Moscow-2024 cars and a car of Model 81-714 against the background of the symbols of the Moscow underground railway; the coupon features cars of E and A types.
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 maxi-card and an illustrated cover with a block of four, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 90 rubles.
Stamp size: 58×26 mm, sheet size: 136×128 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (2×4) 4 stamps and 4 coupons.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (15 thousand sheets).
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