On November 5, a postage stamp dedicated to the international sports forum Russia is a sporting power will go into postal circulation
The international sports forum Russia is a sporting power will be held in Samara on November 5 - 7 in accordance with a Decree by the President of the Russian Federation and with the support of the Russian Federation Government. The venues of the event will be the modern Solidarity Samara Arena and Vladimir Vysotsky Sports Palace complexes. One of the main topics of the forum will be the development of youth sports.
The sports program will include spectacular tournaments with the participation of leading athletes, mass events, races, flash mobs, exercise sessions, tournaments, and master classes in street sports. Forum participants will be offered gala basketball and hockey matches.
The postage stamp provides an image of the Solidarity Samara Arena football stadium and the official logo of the forum.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Samara.
Design Artist: M. Korneeva.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 60×30 mm, sheet size: 164×176 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 88 thousand stamps (11 thousand sheets).
On November 5, a postage stamp dedicated to intelligence officer Richard Sorge will go into postal circulation in the On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
Richard Sorge (1895–1944) was a journalist, a diplomat, a resident of Soviet military intelligence. His agent pseudonyms were Ramzai, Inson, and Zonter. Richard Sorge was a Hero of the Soviet Union (1964, posthumously).
Richard Sorge was born on September 22 (October 4), 1895, in the village of Sabunchi of the Baku Province of the Russian Empire. In 1925, he joined the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. At the same time, he became an agent of the Red Army's intelligence service. From October of 1929, he worked for Soviet military intelligence, and from 1930 to 1932, he was on a special assignment in China. From May of 1933 to October of 1941, he headed an illegal residency in Japan. While working in Japan, R. Sorge reported the approximate date of Germany's attack on the USSR.
On October 18, 1941, R. Sorge was arrested by the Japanese police. He retained his faith in the victory of the USSR until the very end. On September 29, 1943, Sorge was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on November 7, 1944.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Richard Sorge.
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: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 110×110 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 42 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On November 5, six postage stamps dedicated to intelligence officers Joseph Grigulevich, Alexander Korotkov, Viktor Lyagin, Nikolai Prokopyuk, Nadezhda Troyan and Pavel Fitin will go into postal circulation in the On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988) was a Soviet intelligence agent who in after years became a prominent scientist specializing in Latin American studies.
Grigulevich was born on May 5, 1913, in Vilno of the Russian Empire. Since 1927, he was an active participant in the underground communist movement in the Baltic states. In 1933, he went to France, where he studied at the Paris Higher School of Social Sciences, then was sent to illegal party work through the International Organization for Assistance to the Fighters of the Revolution (MOPR) in Argentina. In September of 1936, the Central Committee of the Argentine Communist Party sent I. Grigulevich to Spain struck with civil war, where he became an aide-de-camp of General Rojo, the Chief of Staff of the Madrid Front Army. Since March of 1937, he began to carry out special tasks for Soviet foreign intelligence. Early in 1938, he was sent to Mexico, where he participated in the Utka (Duck) operation to neutralize L. Trotsky.
At the end of 1940, he returned to Argentina as the head of the illegal intelligence and sabotage network of the NKVD of the USSR. I. Grigulevich was tasked with organizing sabotage work to disrupt Germany's supply with food, fuel, and other strategic raw materials from neutral countries of Latin America. I. Grigulevich's group planted more than 150 mines on ships bound for German ports. The total number of agents in his network reached 200 people. For his work during the war years, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
After the Victory, he operated illegally in Brazil and Costa Rica under the cover name of Teodoro Castro. In 1951, by decision of the Costa Rica authorities, he was sent to Rome as First Secretary of the Consulate General, and then as Ambassador of that country to Italy and the Vatican. At the same time, he continued to successfully carry out intelligence assignments for the Center. In 1953, he was recalled to Moscow for security reasons, where he took up scientific and literary activities. He is the author of more than 50 books about heroes of the Latin American continent. In 1979, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR elected I. Grigulevich as a Corresponding Member.
Alexander Korotkov (1909–1961) was an outstanding Soviet intelligence officer and Major General.
Alexander Korotkov was born in Moscow on November 22, 1909. He joined the state security services in 1928. Korotkov rose through the ranks from an ordinary employee to a Deputy Head of foreign intelligence. Fluent in German, he made numerous trips abroad as an illegal agent. In 1933, he was sent on an illegal intelligence mission to France and Germany, where he worked until 1935 and recruited a number of valuable sources.
Before the Great Patriotic War, he was a deputy legal resident in Berlin. The Center set the task to him to reestablish a contact with a group of German anti-fascist underground activists known as the Red Chapel and obtain information about the military preparations and plans of the Hitler's regime with regard to the Soviet Union. It was A. Korotkov who received a message from the Starshina source in June of 1941: “All of Germany's military preparations for an armed attack against the USSR have been completed, and the strike can be expected at any time”.
In the early days of the war, when the building of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin was blocked by the Gestapo, A. Korotkov risked his life several times by going out into the city to meet with agents. During the war, he also carried out operations to organize contacts with foreign intelligence agents in Germany, supervised the training of illegal agents and their transfer to the enemy territory. In 1946, he became Deputy Head of foreign intelligence, and from May to July of 1953, he served as acting Head of foreign intelligence. From 1957 until his sudden death, he was the KGB representative to the Ministry of State Security of the GDR in Berlin.
Viktor Lyagin (1908–1943) was a Soviet intelligence officer and a Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).
Viktor Lyagin was born on December 31 of 1908 in the village of Seltso in the Bryansk Region. In 1934, he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer at the Leningrad Machine Tool Plant. In 1938, he was sent to work at the NKVD Office for the Leningrad Region, and then transferred to Moscow to serve in intelligence. From 1939 to 1941, he was on a business trip to the United States, working under the cover of an Amtorg engineer in San Francisco and New York.
With the start of the Great Patriotic War, he submitted a report to the intelligence leadership requesting to be sent behind enemy lines. In August of 1941, V. Lyagin and a group of colleagues were sent to occupied Nikolaev to organize reconnaissance and sabotage operations against the Nazis. His group used to obtain and transmit important intelligence information about the enemy to the Center and carried out a number of major sabotage operations. In March of 1943, V. Lyagin was captured by the Nazis. During interrogations, he behaved courageously, despite torture, and did not betray the other members of the group to the enemy. On July 17 of 1943, V. Lyagin was executed by shooting. On November 5 of 1944, for carrying out special tasks behind enemy lines and for his courage and heroism, V. Lyagin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Nikolai Prokopyuk (1902–1975) was the leader of the Okhotniki (Hunters) Chekist intelligence unit during the Great Patriotic War, a colonel, a Hero of the Soviet Union.
He was born on June 7, 1902, in the village of Samchiki, Kamenets-Podolsky Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1916, he passed the exam for six grades of a boys' gymnasium as an external student. In 1919–1921, he fought in the ranks of the Red Army. In 1921, he was assigned to work for the state security services. From 1924, he worked in intelligence for the border forces, and from 1935, he was an officer of Soviet foreign intelligence in Republican Spain and Finland.
During the Great Patriotic War, N. Prokopyuk was the commander of the Okhotniki (Hunters) NKVD intelligence unit, which initially operated in the western areas of the Kiev Region and then in the Tsumansk forests. His unit fought more than 20 battles with anti-partisan forces and defended the Polish population in Volhynia from attacks by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). He helped the self-defense units in Przemyśl to survive, thereby saving many Poles from death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. In 1944, under the command of N. Prokopiuk, the partisan unit broke out of the encirclement and fought its way through more than 300 kilometers. In the autumn of 1944, his unit took part in the Slovak National Uprising. There the unit grew into a partisan brigade of over 600 fighters (including more than 200 Czechs and Slovaks). In the fight against the German invaders, N. Prokopyuk proved himself to be a capable commander. During the East Carpathian offensive on September 26 of 1944, his brigade advanced from the rear to the Eastern Beskids Pass to meet the advancing Red Army, captured it, and held it for two days until the Soviet troops arrived.
After the war, he headed one of the departments of the Soviet military administration in Germany. On November 5, 1944, for his exemplary performance of special tasks behind enemy lines and the courage and heroism he manifested by so doing, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Nadezhda Troyan (1921–2011) was a Soviet intelligence agent and a nurse in the Burya partisan detachment, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a candidate of medical sciences.
She was born on October 24, 1921, in the Belorussian city of Drissa. In 1939, she enrolled in the First Moscow Medical Institute, then transferred to the Medical Institute in Minsk where her parents lived.
During the Great Patriotic War, after the occupation regime had been established in Minsk, N. Troyan had to find a job to avoid being deported to Germany. In 1942, she moved with her parents to the town of Smolevichi in the Minsk Region, where she found work as an accountant at a peat factory. She soon established contact with an underground organization and became actively involved in its work. From July of 1942, N. Troyan was a liaison officer, a scout, and a nurse for the partisan detachments Stalin's Five, Burya, and Uncle Kolya's Brigade in the Minsk Region.
In 1943, together with Elena Mazanik and Maria Osipova, she took part in an operation to eliminate Hitler's governor in Belarus, Wilhelm von Kube, for which she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In 1947, N. Troyan graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute, and in 1961, she defended her Candidate’s dissertation. She worked as the Director of the Research Institute of Public Health Education of the USSR Ministry of Health, an associate professor of the Department of Surgery at the First Moscow Medical Institute, and a vice-rector of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute. She successfully combined her professional activities with public work. She was a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, a member of the Peace Committee, the Chairwoman of the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR, a member of the Council of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters, and a Co-Chair of the International Organization for Public Health Education.
Pavel Fitin (1907–1971) was the Head of Soviet foreign intelligence during World War II, a Lieutenant General.
Pavel Fitin was born on December 28, 1907, in the village of Ozhogino of the Tobolsk Province. From 1928 to 1932, he studied at the engineering faculty of the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy. From 1932 to 1934, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Selkhozgiz Publishing House. From 1934 to 1935, he served in the Red Army. In March of 1938, he was sent following a Party enlistment to study at the Higher School of the NKVD.
In October of 1938, he was enrolled as an intern in the 5th Department (Foreign Intelligence) of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR. In May of 1939, P. Fitin became the Head of foreign intelligence. Receiving information from sources abroad that Germany was preparing to attack the USSR, P. Fitin sent to I. Stalin more than 100 intelligence reports between January and June of 1941 concerning the necessity to take urgent measures to strengthen the country's defense capabilities.
During the War, Third Rank State Security Commissar P. Fitin did everything possible to provide the country's leaders with reliable information about the strategic plans of the German command, with information about the likelihood of opening a “second front” in Europe, and materials about the plans of the USSR's allies in the anti-Hitler coalition for the post-war period. In particular, in 1943, the Soviet intelligence service in London intercepted a British intelligence report on the German plan of offensive at the Kursk Bulge, which allowed the USSR leadership to take the necessary countermeasures and defeat the enemy. P. Fitin made an important contribution to the Soviet Union acquiring nuclear weapons secrets. In September of 1941, on assignment from headquarters, a source in the London residency, D. Maclean, reported on activities under way in the UK and the US to create an atomic bomb. By the end of 1945, the necessary information had been obtained from residences in England, the United States, and other countries, which permitted the USSR to create its own nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time and thereby to put an end to the US monopoly in this field.
The postage stamps provide portraits of I. Grigulevich, A. Korotkov, V. Lyagin, N. Prokopyuk, N. Troyan and P. Fitin.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 110×110 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) stamps.
Quantity: 15 thousand each stamp (15 thousand sheets).
On November 11, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence of Russia will go into postal circulation
The Scientific and Technical Intelligence is one of the priority areas of activity for the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
On October 26, 1925, F. Dzerzhinsky, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR, sent a proposal to the leadership of the Foreign Department of the OGPU to organize scientific and technical intelligence.
With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, more than a thousand secret materials (drawings, diagrams, descriptions, instructions, technical samples) were obtained and implemented in such fields as jet and high-speed aviation technology, radar detection technology, special chemistry, biological weapons protection, pharmacology, and nuclear energy.
Intelligence officers - heroes of Russia who made an invaluable contribution to the creation of domestic nuclear weapons were L. Kvasnikov, V. Barkovsky, A. Yatskov, A. Feklisov, M. and L. Cohens.
During the Cold War, scientific and technical intelligence focused primarily on ensuring national and international security based on nuclear parity with the United States and the advanced development of all types of weapons and military equipment.
Since 1991, scientific and technical intelligence has been one of the priority areas of intelligence activity for the Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.
The postage stamp provides a stylized symbol of an atom; inside its orbits, there are schematic images of a warship, a fighter jet, an artificial Earth satellite, a nuclear power plant, a microchip, and artificial intelligence; in the center, there is a small emblem of the Foreign Intelligence Service of 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: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size (diam): 30 mm, sheet size: 141×141 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 99 thousand stamps (11 thousand sheets).
On November 15, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Arctic explorer Vladimir Rusanov will go into postal circulation in the Geographical Projects of Russia series
Vladimir Rusanov (1875–1913) was a Russian Arctic explorer.
He was born on November 3 (15), 1875, in the city of Orel. From 1887 to 1889, he studied at the Orel Gymnasium. In 1903, he emigrated to France (Paris), where he graduated from the natural sciences department of the University of Paris with a degree in geology. In 1907, he visited Novaya Zemlya and explored the Matochkin Shar Strait on foot.
In 1909, 1910, and 1911, he headed Russian scientific expeditions. He circumnavigated Novaya Zemlya on motor-sail vessels.
In 1912, he led an expedition onboard the Hercules boat to survey the coal-bearing areas of Spitsbergen; he then set sail east around Cape Zhelaniya and was gone missing with his crew near the Mikhailov Peninsula. In 1934, a wooden pole with the inscription “Hercules. 1913” and some belongings of the expedition members were found on the islands off the western coast of Taimyr.
The main illustration shows a portrait of V. Rusanov against a Guba Mashigina map compiled during researches in 1909 and the RGO logo; the commemorative stamp features images symbolically reflecting geographical projects.
In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Orel and Penza.
Design Artists: S. Kapranov and R. Komsa
Quantity: 6 thousand postcards.
On November 18, a postage stamp dedicated to the Mamison Art-resort will go into postal circulation in the Resorts of Russia series
The North Caucasus is a cultural and historical region of Russia, located on the northern slope of the Greater Caucasus Range and the Fore-Caucasus. The region consists of several resort towns and tourist and recreational complexes.
The ambitious project for the year-round Mamison ski, tourist and recreation complex in North Ossetia was presented in 2014. The resort is located at an altitude of almost 3 km in the Alagirsky District.
Currently, the resort has 10 km of pistes of varying degrees of difficulty. The altitude at which the descent of the mountain begins is 2,950 m.
The resort is expected to have a network of cafes, restaurants and shops. Life of the resort will be filled with various events: every year, many concerts and exhibitions will be held here.
The postage stamp provides an image of a paintress working in the open air and landscapes of the resort with a cableway.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Vladikavkaz, as well as a maxi-card.
Design Artist: N. Karpova.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm, sheet size: 150×157 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (7.5 thousand sheets).
On November 19, a postage stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mikhail Kalinin, a statesman and a politition, will go into postal circulation
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) was a Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman, and a party leader. In 1944, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Mikhail Kalinin was born on November 7 (19), 1875, in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa of the Tver Province.
During the February Revolution of 1917, he was one of the leaders of the seizure of the Finland Station and liberation of political prisoners from the Kresty Prison. Afterwards, he became the Chairman of the Petrograd City Council. From March of 1919 to July of 1938, he was the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
In 1919–1920, he traveled over all fronts by the October Revolution propaganda train. He was given the honorary unofficial title of “All-Russian Starosta,” which later became “All-Union Starosta.”
In 1921–1923, he was the Chairman of the Central Commission to Aid the Starving and the Central Commission for the Struggle against Consequences of the Famine of 1921 under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
After the establishment of the Soviet Union, he was the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the USSR (1922–1938), the Chairman of the Down with Illiteracy Society (1923–1936) and the Chairman of the Politburo Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks for the preparation and consideration of issues of nation building in the national regions of the RSFSR (since 1926).
In 1936, he was a Deputy Chairman of the constitutional commission and participated in drafting of the new Constitution of the USSR. He was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1938 to 1946.
The postage stamp features a portrait of Mikhail Kalinin against the backdrop of a map of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with silhouettes of people symbolizing M. Kalinin's activities as the “All-Union Starosta”.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Tver.
Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 70 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 170×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 12 (3×4) stamps.
Quantity: 66 thousand stamps (5.5 thousand sheets).
On November 20, a stamp featuring a monument to road construction heroes in the Donetsk People's Republic will go into postal circulation
The monument In Memory of Road Construction Heroes is located in the city of Volnovakha, Donetsk People's Republic, at the 680th km of the R-150 federal highway.
It is dedicated to road workers who died while restoring roads and bridges and building fortifications during the special military operation in the territories of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhskaya and Khersonskaya Regions.
The initiative to install the monument came from the Avtodor state-owned company with support from the Federal Road Agency. The monument was designed by People's Artist of the Russian Federation Salavat Shcherbakov.
The monument was officially unveiled on August 1 of 2025. The ceremony was attended by Marat Khusnullin, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Denis Pushilin, the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The postage stamp provides an image of the monument In Memory of Road Construction Heroes.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Donetsk, as well as a maxi-card.
Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×65 mm, sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (4×2) with 7 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 59.5 thousand stamps (8.5 thousand sheets).
On November 20, an overprinted 2017 stamp (No. 2291 Full Cavalier of the Order “For Merit for the Fatherland”. M. Plisetskaya (1925-2015), a ballet dancer) dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya will go into postal circulation
Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015) was an outstanding ballet dancer, a choreographer, a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1948 to 1990, a Full Cavalier of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, a Hero of Socialist Labor, and a People's Artist of the USSR.
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow. In 1943, after graduating from the Choreographic School, M. Plisetskaya was accepted into the Bolshoi Theatre and quickly became its leading ballet dancer. She became famous not only as a magnificent dancer, but also as a talented choreographer and ballet master.
The ballerina developed her own style, distinguished by grace, graphicity, sharpness, and completeness of gesture and posture. She was not afraid of stage experiments and possessed phenomenal creative longevity.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Maya Plisetskaya, an image of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, inscription “100th Years from the Birthday” and a surcharge of the new denomination.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: R. Komsa (stamp); Design: M. Miloradova (overprint).
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×170 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (3×5) with 14 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 58.8 thousand stamps (4.2 thousand sheets).
On November 25, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 125th Birth Anniversary of Boris Efimov, a painter, a graphic artist, will go into postal circulation
Boris Efimov (1900–2008) was a Soviet and Russian graphic artist and a master of political caricature. He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, a People's Artist of the RSFSR, a People's Artist of the USSR, and an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
Boris Efimov was born on September 28 (October 11), 1900, in Kiev. His first published drawing was a cartoon of politician M. Rodzianko in magazine Solntse Rossii (Sun of Russia) in 1916.
Since 1920, he worked as a cartoonist for newspapers Kommunar and Bolshevik. From 1922, he collaborated with newspapers Pravda and Izvestia, the Krokodil magazine and many other publications, including magazine Chudak (Crank).
After 1938, he was forced to switch over to work in book illustration (writings by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin). In 1940, he returned to political caricature under pseudonym V. Borisov and, after direct instructions from V. Molotov, was again included in the group of masters of Soviet political caricature. In 1966-1990, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Agitplakat creative production association. In association with V. Denis, D. Moor, L. Brodaty, M. Cheremnykh and Kukryniksy, he created a unique phenomenon in world culture referred to as "positive satire."
During the Great Patriotic War, he pictured cartoons about the Third Reich and its allies.
He designed sets for theatre performances such as Titanic Waltz by T. Mushatescu (1956, Central Theater of the Soviet Army, Moscow) and others, and participated in the creation of films at the Soyuzmultfilm studio (1950–1960).
In August of 2002, he became the Head of the cartoon art department at the Russian Academy of Arts. On September 28, 2007, he was appointed Chief Artist of the Izvestia newspaper.
The postage stamp provides a replica of painting The Hero Harvest by B. Efimov (1957, Novokuznetsk Art Museum); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of the artist at work.
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 the souvenir sheet with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside; and for the second emission type of the imperforated souvenir sheet with partial varnish.
Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 250 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 108×82 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 30×42 mm. Quantity: 15 thousand souvenir sheets (the 1-st emission type); 3,450 souvenir sheets (the 2-nd emission type*)
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
On November 25, a postage stamp My Russia will go into postal circulation
From July 1 to August 24, 2025, JSC Marka, with the assistance of the Moscow Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Union of Philatelists of Russia, held an All-Russian competition for drawing sketches of a postage stamp and a postcard themed My Russia.
The goal of the competition is to use postage stamps and postcards to tell addressees about nature, culture, landmarks, and customs of Russia. Besides, to provide an image on a postcard or stamp that would help addressees get acquainted with our country, make them want to visit Russia, and encourage them to start collecting stamps and postcards.
The winners have been chosen from among more than 500 artworks.
The postage stamp features the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed) and the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Orel, Penza, Ryazan, Tver and Yaroslavl, as well as a maxi-card.
Design Artist: A. Kradyshev.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 152×152 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 1 mln. 71 thousand stamps (119 thousand sheets).
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