On August 1, a postage stamp dedicated to the 325th Anniversary of the Russian Armed Forces Rear Services will go into postal circulation
The history of the Rear Service of the Russian army dates back to 1700, when Russian Tsar Peter I signed a Decree On the management of all the bread supplies of military men by okolnichy Yazykov, naming him in this part as the Provision General, and in the same year, the Tsar established the Provision Prikaz.
Later on, the system of the Russian army's rear was improved in the light of the experience of wars. A system of supply transportation was developed, a system of stock echeloning was arranged, and a unified intendant service was established. During the First World War, frontline and army supply bases were formed; front distribution stations began to operate, providing reception of railroad transport from the rear of the country, as well as corps unloading stations.
On August 1 of 1941, under the conditions of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR J. Stalin signed an order On the organization of the Main Directorate of the rear of the Red Army and rear departments of fronts and armies. During the war years, more than 120,000 km of railroads and about 100,000 km of motor ways were built, more than 15,000 bridges and tunnels were erected.
The modern celebration of the Day of the Rear Services of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on August 1 was approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin On the Establishment of Professional Holidays and Commemorative Days in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2006. Training of personnel and command staff is conducted at the General of the Army A. Khrulev Military Academy of Materiel and Technical Security and its branches in Volsk, Omsk and Penza.
The postage stamp provides an image of the emblem of the Logistics Services of the Armed Forces 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 and St. Petersburg.
Design Artist: R. Komsa.
Face value: 70 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 63 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On August 7, a postage stamp dedicated to the 400th Birth Anniversary of Artamon Matveev, the Head of the Ambassadorial Prikaz and the Little Russia Prikaz, will go into postal circulation in the History of Russian Diplomacy series
Artamon Matveev (1625-1682) was a close boyar of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
During the Russo-Polish War of 1654-1667, Matveev participated in the siege of Smolensk; he traveled to Lithuania and Poland to negotiate the election of Alexei Mikhailovich as Polish king. In 1657, he revealed the treason of I. Vygovsky and tamed the unrest in Ukraine. He took part in the suppression of the Copper Rebellion in 1662. In 1669, he was in charge of the Little Russia Prikaz; from 1671, he was in charge of the Ambassadorial Prikaz, Streltsy Prikaz, and the Kazan palace Prikaz. He considered the main task of the foreign policy to be the attachment of entire Ukraine to Russia and for its solution, he thought it possible to temporarily give up the struggle with Sweden for the Baltic. On February 22 of 1671, Matveev was appointed head of the ambassadorial seal. Three years later, he was granted the rank of boyar and butler with the title of governor of Serpukhov. He suppressed uprisings in Kolomenskoye, in Putivl, and in Pereyaslavl. In 1672, during negotiations with Poland, he attained the Kiev affixture to Russia. In 1674, A. Matveev went to the Chinese Emperor as an envoy.
After the Tsar’s death in 1676, he was excommunicated from the court under the guise of being sent for voivode service to Siberia, accused of sorcery, deprived of ranks and the Estate and imprisoned in the Pustozersky jail, where he stayed for seven years. In 1682, he was returned to the court, but on May 15 during the Streltsy rebellion in Moscow, he was captured by rebels in the palace and killed.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Artamon Matveev.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×104 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 42 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On August 8, a souvenir sheet featuring domestic horse breeds, dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the Novoaleksandrovsky stud farm will go into postal circulation
The Novoaleksandrovsky stud farm was established in May of 1825 in the Pridontsovye (presently, the Lugansk People's Republic) and named in honor of Emperor Alexander I. The project of the complex was designed by G. Bukin, the architect of the Horse Breeding Committee of the Russian Empire. In August of 1825, the grand opening took place. Initially, the stud farm was intended for military purposes and was supposed to breed and supply sturdy riding horses to the cavalry regiments of the Russian Army. As a result of the breeding work of the farm's specialists, the breeding stock of strong and hardy half-breed horses was produced.
During the Great Patriotic War, most of the horses, primarily draft horses, were “mobilized” to artillery and other Red Army units as horse-drawn transport.
Since 1952, a period of selection and breeding work with the view of breeding a new type of Russian Arden draft horse breed began. In 1950-1960s, the Novoalexandrovsky (Ukrainian) type of Russian drafters was bred at the stud farm.
On September 11 of 1975, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Novoalexandrovsky stud farm was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
Currently, the Novoalexandrovsky stud farm is successfully developing and specializing in breeding and selling two breeds of horses: Novoalexandrovsky drafters and Ukrainian riding horses.
The postage stamps present an image of horses of the two breeds of the Novoaleksandrovsky stud farm; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature the main entrance to the stud farm building and the surroundings.
In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Lugansk, as well as maxi-cards.
Design Artist: A. Saltykova; Design: N. Karpova
Face value: 65 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 110×65 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 42×30 mm.
Quantity: 27 thousand souvenir sheets.
On August 14, four postage stamps dedicated to the architecture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region will go into postal circulation in the Architectural Heritage of Russia series
Some of the most famous architectural monuments of the Nizhny Novgorod Region are: the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin - the most majestic fortress of Central Russia, Chkalov Stairs, the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, warehouses, the building of the State Bank, and various sculptures and monuments.
The Main Fair Building is a historical area where the largest fair of the Russian Empire was located. It was built in 1890 after the project of architects K. Treiman, A. von Gogen and A. Trumbitsky and hosts the central exhibition center of Nizhny Novgorod and a tower house in the pseudo-Russian style. It is an object of historical and cultural heritage of federal significance.
The V. Pryadilov House is an architectural monument in the historical center of the city. It was built in 1906-1908 according to the project of architect S. Levkov in the Art Nouveau style. The street facade employed abundantly forms of the Art Nouveau that became fashionable at that time: oval lines of openings and elements of decorative and artistic decoration, including wrought iron roof railings between four attics of bizarre shapes.
The building of the branch of the State Bank was built in 1913 in the Neo-Russian style, when the Empire was celebrating a three-hundredth Anniversary of the House of Romanovs. The author of the project was V. Pokrovsky, who received the right to build it following the result of a competition held by the Bank's Council in 1911.
The Packhouses Cultural Center is metal structures of the 19th century located on the territory of the former cargo port on the Spit (Strelka) in Nizhny Novgorod. They were built in 1882. Currently, a cultural center including a concert hall and an exhibition pavilion is arranged under the metal structures of the warehouse. It is an object of cultural heritage of Russia of regional significance.
The postage stamps provide images of Main Fair Building (1890), the V. Pryadilov House (1910), the building of the branch of the State Bank (1913) and the Packhouses Cultural Center (2022).
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.
Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 35 rubles.
Stamp size: 40×28 mm, sheet size: 100×80 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 4 (2×2) stamps (a block of four).
Quantity: 20 thousand each stamp (20 thousand sheets).
On August 15, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the city of Pushkino of the Moscow Region will go into postal circulation
On August 17 of 1925, Pushkino of the Moscow Region received the status of a town. It included a dacha settlement near the station and a part of the Pushkino village. On June 12 of 1929, the town became a district center. In the same year, the first electric train ran from Moscow to Pushkino.
In 1953, the city was categorized as a city of regional subordination. Rapid construction activities began, the Moskovsky Prospect was occupied with buildings; the Serebryanka microdistrict was constructed followed by the Dzerzhinets microdistrict in the 1970s. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, there appeared the Armand microdistrict, where many wooden houses of the Pushkino village were replaced by nine-storied buildings.
Since April 22 of 2019, Pushkino is the administrative center of the Pushkinsky Urban District, Moscow Region. Its population is 111,580 (2024).
The postage stamp provides an image of the coat of arms of the Pushkinsky Urban District.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Pushkino of the Moscow Region.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 30 rubles.
Stamp size: 18.5×26 mm, sheet size: 112.5×181 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 30 (5×6) stamps.
Quantity: 105 thousand stamps (3.5 thousand sheets).
On August 15, a postage stamp dedicated to the architecture will go into postal circulation in the framework of the Joint Issue of the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Korea fell under the protectorate of Japan early in the 20th century and was annexed by it in 1910. At the Yalta Conference in February of 1945, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that after the defeat of Germany, the USSR would enter the war against Japan. In April, the USSR denounced the neutrality treaty with Japan, and since May, was realizing a transfer of troops to the Far East.
On August 9, 1945, Soviet troops began the Manchurian offensive operation; fierce battles were fought in all directions. As a result of military operations, the Japanese Kwantung Army was completely defeated. Soviet troops attached to Russia the southern part of the Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, and liberated certain territories of Korea and Northeast China.
August 15 is the annual celebration of the Korea Liberation Day, or, as the residents of the Korean Peninsula themselves name it, the Rebirth of the Fatherland holiday.
On September 2, 1945, the Japanese government signed an act of surrender, accepting all the requirements of the Potsdam Declaration. Japan's surrender marked the end of World War II.
The postage stamp provides images of the Liberation Monument in Pyongyang dedicated to Soviet soldiers and officers killed in action on the Korean Peninsula in August of 1945, and the national flags of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: M. Korneeva.
Face value: 55 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 170×151 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 15 (5×3) stamps.
Quantity: 82.5 thousand stamps (5.5 thousand sheets).
On August 19, a postage stamp dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Great Consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will go into postal circulation
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church located in the central part of Moscow on Volkhonka Street. The existing building, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the temple of the same name, destroyed in 1931. It is the largest Orthodox Church in Russia.
On September 10 (22) of 1839, a solemn ceremony of laying of the Cathedral on Volkhonka Street took place. The construction was started actually two years before and was completed in 1860; afterwards, the interior decoration was created; and on May 26 (June 7) of 1883, the first church was consecrated.
The building of the temple was destroyed on December 5 of 1931 as a result of Stalin's reconstruction of Moscow. The site was planned to be given for the construction of the Palace of Soviets, but eventually, the Moskva swimming pool was made in this place.
The design of the new temple was made by architects M. Posokhin and A. Denisov. Soon afterwards, A. Denisov withdrew from the project, and his place was taken by Z. Tsereteli, who completed the construction. The sculptor changed the original design, approved by the Moscow authorities, and introduced new details into the exterior design of the temple.
The new Cathedral of Christ the Savior was reconstructed by 1999 as a conventional external copy of its historical predecessor: the building became a two-level structure, with the Church of the Transfiguration in the basement. On December 31 of 1999, the upper temple was opened to the public. On the night of January 6th to 7th of 2000, the first solemn Christmas liturgy was served. On August 19 of the same year, there was a great consecration of the temple by the participants of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The postage stamp provides an image of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the ornamental design.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow as well as an illustrated cover for the second emission type: a stamp sheet with bronze paste and foil.
Design Artists: A. Kulemin and O. Savina.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, sheet size: 168×175 mm, 131×124.2 mm.
Emission form: sheets with formatted margins with 12 (4×3) and 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 96 thousand stamps (8 thousand sheets) - the 1-st emission type; 21 thousand stamps (3.5 thousand sheets) - the 2-nd emission type*.
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
On August 23, a postage stamp dedicated to the Kursk Battle Memorial Complex will go into postal circulation in the framework of the Joint Issue of the Communications Administrations of the RCC member countries
The Kursk Battle Memorial Complex in the village of Ponyri of the Kursk Region presents a sculpture of a Soviet soldier who prevents two looming walls with images of Nazi vehicles from closing up. The first stage of the Kursk Battle Memorial Complex was opened in 2023 during a ceremony timed to coincide with the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Battle of Kursk. The authors of the Project are sculptor Andrey Korobtsov and architect Konstantin Fomin.
The postage stamp provides an image of the first stage of the Kursk Battle Memorial Complex in the village of Ponyri of the Kursk Region.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kursk.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm, sheet size: 150×159 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).
On August 26, a postage stamp dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the town of Kogalym, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, will go into postal circulation
Kogalym is a town in Russia, in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. It is located in the Surgut District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Region, Russia, between the Inguyagun and Kirill-Vysyagun rivers. The area of the city is 20.5 km². Population is 61.4 thousand people (2021).
The foundation of the town is related to the discovery of the Povkhovskoye, Vatyoganskoye and Tevlinsko-Russkinskoye oil fields in Western Siberia in 1971. In 1975, the builders of the Surgut-Korotchaevo railroad landed in the area of the settlement; on August 31 of 1976, the settlement received its official name - Kogalymsky, and already in 1978, the first ton of oil was produced.
Kogalym hosts the main production facilities of PJSC LUKOIL (its main division LLC LUKOIL-West Siberia). On December 16 of 2016, PJSC LUKOIL put into commercial operation a plant for manufacturing permanent magnet motors.
The postage stamp provides an image of sculptural composition A Drop of Life by A. Kovalchuk against the background of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana and a modern residential complex.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kogalym of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, as well as an illustrated cover with the postage stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Kogalym of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra inside.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 50 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).
On August 27, six postage stamps dedicated to Cities of Labor Valor will go into postal circulation
A City of Labor Valor is an honorary title of the Russian Federation, instituted by the Federal Law of March 1, 2020, “in order to commemorate the feat of home front workers during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”. It is granted to the cities of the Russian Federation, whose residents "made a significant contribution to the achievement of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 by providing uninterrupted production of military and civilian products at industrial enterprises, located in the city, and demonstrated massive labor heroism and selflessness”.
The postage stamps provide images of:
— sculptural composition dedicated to home front workers during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Tyumen (authors S. Titlinov, A. Medvedev, and S. Savin);
— monument to home front workers in Kazan (sculptor M. Gasimov);
— monument Home Front for the Front in Magnitogorsk (sculptor L. Golovnitsky, architect Y. Belopolsky);
— monument to the heroes of the front and home front in Perm (sculptor V. Klykov;)
— monument of Military and Labor Glory in Penza (sculptors G. Yastrebenetsky, V. Kozenyuk, and N. Teplov, architect V. Sokhin);
— monument to a woman and a teenager who carved out a Victory on the home front in Tomsk (authors D. Zheltov, V. Romanov, and M. Petrov).
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Magnitogorsk of the Chelyabinsk Region, Penza, Perm, Tomsk, Tyumen and Kazan.
Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 139×105 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 16 thousand each stamp (16 thousand sheets).
On August 28, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Arkady Strugatsky, a writer, will go into postal circulation
Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) was a Russian Soviet writer, a scriptwriter, and a translator, who coauthored with his brother Boris Strugatsky (1933-2012) several dozen works considered classics of modern science and social fiction.
Working as an editor in the Moscow Goslitizdat and in later years, in the Detgiz Publishing Houses, he developed a creative method that allowed him to write jointly with B. Strugatsky, who lived permanently in Leningrad; their first joint publications appeared in 1958. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1964. In the 1970s, he also worked with film studios of the Moldavian and Tajik Soviet Socialist Republics as a scriptwriter. Since late 1950s, he was engaged in translations of classical and modern Japanese literature, as well as English-language fiction. A number of his writings and translations were published under pseudonyms S. Berezhkov or S. Yaroslavtsev.
A. Strugatsky was a member of editorial boards of various collections and periodicals, such as The World of Adventures, Library of Modern Fiction, Knowledge is Power, and since 1985, of the Ural Pathfinder. Together with B. Strugatsky, he was the winner of many Russian and foreign literary awards.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Arkady Strugatsky against the background of an illustration for his story Hard to be a God.
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: V. Khablovsky.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 156×120 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 54 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).
On August 29, a postage stamp dedicated to the 300th Birth Anniversary of Pyotr Rumyantsev, a military commander and military theorist will go into postal circulation
Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725-1796) was a Russian military commander and military theorist, a Field Marshal General.
In 1739, he was appointed to the diplomatic service and enlisted in the Russian Embassy in Berlin. In 1740, he was enrolled in the Army Nobility Corps, and then sent to the active army in the rank of sublieutenant.
P. Rumyantsev's first duty station was Finland, where he participated in the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743. He distinguished himself in the capture of Helsingfors. In 1743, he was sent to St. Petersburg in the rank of captain to bring the news of the conclusion of the Abosky peace treaty. In 1748, he took part in the campaign of Repnin's corps to the Rhine during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740-1748. During the Seven Years' War, he commanded the siege and capture of Kohlberg. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the active army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. For the victories at Larga and Kagul, which led to the conclusion of the Kuchuk-Kainarji peace treaty favorable for Russia, he was awarded the title Zadunaisky (Trans-Danubian).
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Pyotr Rumyantsev against the background of the commander on a warhorse and his army.
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: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×115 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 76.5 thousand stamps (8.5 thousand sheets).
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