On October 2, two stamps dedicated to parrots will go into postal circulation in the Inhabitants of Russian Zoos series
Russian zoos are home to a variety of animals — from Asian elephants, crocodiles and alpacas to turtles, frogs and flamingos. There are also representatives of endangered species: the Amur tiger, the Pallas's cat, the Himalayan black bear, the Amur leopard, the wolverine and many others. Among the inhabitants of the zoos, there are parrots.
The collection of the Moscow Zoo features various species of parrots: macaws, cockatoos, Amazon parrots, the ring-necked parakeet, the Patagonian conure and the red-fan parrot, as well as the African grey parrot.
Stocking the zoos with rare animal species is part of species conservation programs. Specialists provide conditions as close to natural ones as possible so that the birds can breed and feel comfortable. At the same time, an individual diet is selected for each species.
The postage stamps feature the red macaw and the military macaw in their natural habitat.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yaroslavl, as well as two unstamped postcards, and an illustrated cover with postage stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancellation for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 50 rubles each.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm; se-tenant pair size: 114×86 mm.
Emission form: se-tenant pair of 2 stamps.
Quantity: 50 thousand se-tenant pairs (50 thousand sheets).
On October 8, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of the completion of the Nuremberg Tribunal will go into postal circulation in the On the 85th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 series
On August 8 of 1945, the governments of the USSR, the USA, Great Britain and France concluded an agreement on organizing a trial of the chief war criminals. Subsequently, 19 more states officially joined the agreement, and the tribunal could with full right be referred to as the Court of Nations.
The trial began on November 20 of 1945 and lasted almost 11 months. 24 war criminals who were part of the chief leadership of Nazi Germany appeared before the tribunal.
The defendants were charged with planning, preparing, unleashing or waging an aggressive war for the purpose of establishing the world domination of German imperialism, that is, with crimes against peace; with the murders and torture of prisoners of war and civilians of the occupied countries, the deportation of the civilian population to Germany for forced labor, the murder of hostages, the plundering of public and private property, the senseless destruction of cities and villages, and devastation not justified by military necessity, that is, with war crimes; with extermination, enslavement, exile and other cruelties committed against the civilian population on political, racial or religious grounds, that is, with crimes against humanity.
On September 30, the tribunal began reading the verdict, which was completed on October 1 of 1946.
The main illustration shows a historical photograph from the Nuremberg Tribunal, an eight-volume book edition based on the case materials, archival documents, and a folder of R. Rudenko; the commemorative stamp features the emblem of the celebration of the 85th 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 and St. Petersburg.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets and S. Kapranov.
Quantity: 500 thousand items.
On October 14, an overprinted stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Galina Vishnevskaya, an opera singer, a People's Artist of the USSR, will go into postal circulation in the Cavaliers of the “Order for Merit to the Fatherland” series
Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012) was an opera singer, a theatre director, an instructor, an actress, a People's Artist of the USSR, a full cavalier of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland.
In 1952, G. Vishnevskaya made her debut on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in the role of Tatyana in P. Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. She took part in the first productions on the Russian stage of S. Prokofiev's The Gambler and one-man opera La Voix Humaine by F. Poulenc. Many spectators remember G. Vishnevskaya for the main role in the film-opera Katerina Izmailova to the music of D. Shostakovich.
In 1982, after a triumphant performance of the role of Tatyana on the stage of the Grand Opéra in Paris, she left the professional stage and took up teaching and concert activity.
In 1993, she made her debut as a dramatic actress in the role of Catherine II on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre in the play Behind the Mirror. She appeared in the feature films Provincial Benefit (1993) and Alexandra (2007).
The postage stamp provides a portrait of G. Vishnevskaya and the logotype of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, as well as the overprint of the new text: 100th Birth Anniversary and the surcharge of new denomination of 35 rubles.
In addition to the issue of the overprinted postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce an illustrated cover with an overprinted stamp sheet inside.
Design Artists: A. Moskovets (stamp), M. Miloradova (overprint).
Face value: 35 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm; sheet size: 146×170 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (3×5) of 14 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 35 thousand stamps (2.5 thousand sheets*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
On October 19, a stamp dedicated to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation will go into postal circulation
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation is a Russian chamber of commerce, a voluntary non-governmental non-profit organization established in the organizational and legal form of a union to represent and protect the legitimate interests of its members and with the view of developing entrepreneurship, economic and foreign trade activity. It unites more than a hundred territorial chambers of commerce and industry and other associations and unions of Russian entrepreneurs; besides, its direct members are individual commercial and non-profit organizations.
The Founding Congress of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the RSFSR was held on October 19 of 1991. On July 7 of 1993, the Law of the Russian Federation On Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Russian Federation was adopted.
The postage stamp provides an image of the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in Moscow and the emblem of the organization.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm; sheet size: 170×175 mm.
Emission form: a sheet of 12 (3×4) stamps.
Quantity: 66 thousand stamps (5.5 thousand sheets).
On October 19, four postage stamps dedicated to buildings of diplomatic missions of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will go into postal circulation
Russia, given its geopolitical position and owing to the successes of tsarist and Soviet diplomacy, has one of the largest networks of foreign diplomatic missions.
The Russian Embassy in Switzerland is located in Bern in a mansion on Brunnadernrain Street, built in 1911 to a design by A. Gerster in the Bernese Baroque style.
The Russian Embassy in Slovakia is located in Bratislava in a building constructed in 1915 to a design by architect M. Harminec. The building is included in the Famous Villas of Slovakia collection.
The Residence of the Russian Ambassador to the USA is located in Washington in a mansion on 16th Street, built to a design by architects N. Wyeth and F. Sullivan. Prior to 1994, the building housed the Embassy of the USSR and Russia in the USA.
On October 19, 2016, the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center, designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmote, was opened in the very heart of Paris, along the Quai Branly, at a few hundred meters from the Eiffel Tower. The Center is an integral part of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France. The complex consists of four buildings: the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of the Diocese of Korsun of the Russian Orthodox Church, the center for additional education, the exhibition center and the amphitheater building.
The postage stamps feature the buildings of the Russian Embassies in Switzerland and Slovakia, the Residence of the Russian Ambassador to the USA and the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: N. Karpova.
Face value: 80 rubles each.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm; sheet size: 146×144 mm.
Emission form: sheets with formatted margins (3×4) of 11 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 66 thousand stamps each (6 thousand sheets each).
On October 22, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Spartak Mishulin, an actor, a People's Artist of the RSFSR, will go into postal circulation
Spartak Mishulin (1926–2005) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor, an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, a People's Artist of the RSFSR, a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Spartak Mishulin was born on October 22, 1926, in Moscow. In 1941, he entered the art special school in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. In 1948, after a failed attempt to enter GITIS, he was sent to the auxiliary company of the Drama Theatre of the city of Kalinin. In 1960, after tours of the Kalinin Regional Drama Theatre in Moscow, he was invited to three theatres in the capital at once: the Lenin Komsomol Theatre, the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army and the Satire Theatre. Having chosen the Moscow Academic Satire Theatre, he served there continuously for forty-five years (1960–2005) until the last days of his life.
Wide fame was brought to the actor by the first episodes of the variety and entertainment humoristic TV show of the Central Television of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR Cabaret "13 Chairs", released in 1966, in which he played the role of Pan Director for the following fourteen years. One of the longest-running roles of S. Mishulin in the theatre was the role of Carlson in the play The Kid and Karlson Who Lives on the Roof (1968) directed by Margarita Mikaelyan on the stage of the Satire Theatre, which became the actor's "calling card".
The commemorative stamp provides a portrait of S. Mishulin against the background of a film strip; the main image features a frame from the film White Sun of the Desert (Film Studio Mosfilm, director V. Motyl, 1970).
In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka will produce a special cancel for Moscow.
Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Quantity: 3.3 thousand copies.
On October 23, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Joint-Stock Company MOSTRANSAVTO will go into circulation
The history of the company began in 1926, when the Department of Municipal Services of Bogorodsk (presently Noginsk) purchased a bus for the route Bogorodsk – Elektroperedacha. At the same time, the construction of pavilions for waiting buses started.
In 1940, the Moscow Regional Motor Transport Administration centralized passenger transportation. During the Great Patriotic War, its employees, along with a significant part of the vehicle fleet, went to the front. During the war years, new motor transport enterprises were opened.
Since 2001, the companies of the State Unitary Enterprise of the Moscow Region MOSTRANSAVTO received large lots of new buses, and the construction and reconstruction of bus stations and bus terminals began.
In 2017, the renewal of the bus fleet was launched under the Governor's program, and in 2018, upon the program of the Government of the Moscow Region, more than 1,750 new buses took the routes in the region.
In 2020, a large-scale reorganization of branches into centralized intermunicipal automobile operating companies took place.
The postage stamp provides images of ZIS-8 and LiAZ 529265-03 buses.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Odintsovo of the Moscow Region.
Design Artist: N. Karpova.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm; sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet with formatted margins of 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).
On October 29, a stamp dedicated to the 225th Birth Anniversary of Boris Jacobi, an inventor in the field of telegraph communication, will go into postal circulation
Boris Jacobi (1801–1874) was a physicist, an engineer and inventor, one of the founders of modern electrochemistry.
In 1838, B. Jacobi discovered electroplating, laying the foundation for an entire direction of applied electrochemistry. Immediately after the discovery, this method began to be used all over the world. Thus, in Russia, electroplating was brought into use for minting medals, as well as for manufacturing copper printing cliches and coins, which made it possible to carry out monetary reform in the country in the shortest possible time.
Significant gains were achieved by B. Jacobi in the field of telegraphy. He designed about 10 types of various telegraph machines; among them was a device of synchronous action with direct (without decoding) indication in the receiver of transmitted letters and digits and one of the world's first type-printing telegraph sets.
In the Russian military history, B. Jacobi remained as one of the leading inventors of galvanic batteries and sea anti-ship mines of a new type, including self-priming (electrochemical) mines and mines with a fuse from an induction apparatus.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of B. Jacobi against the background of a telegraph set of his invention and a fragment of an electromagnetic telegraph diagram.
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: A. Mosolov; Design: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm; sheet size: 178×112 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet with formatted margins (5×2) of 8 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 56 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).
On October 30, four stamps dedicated to insects will go into postal circulation in the Fauna of Russia series
Insects are a class of invertebrate animals belonging to the Arthropoda phylum. This is the most diverse group of living beings on the planet. The territory of Russia is life environment of about 100 thousand species of insects. Among them are the emperor dragonfly, the Panagaeus cruxmajor, the heavenly barbel, and the Saga pedo.
The emperor dragonfly is a dragonfly from the Aeshnidae family. It is one of the largest dragonflies in Russia. It is listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. The emperor dragonfly inhabits water bodies, both in open and closed forest landscapes.
The Panagaeus cruxmajor is a beetle from the Carabidae family. It is found in the east of Siberia up to the Amur, in North Africa, and in Asia Minor. It prefers moist terrain with rich vegetation.
The heavenly barbel is a species of beetles of the Cerambycinae subfamily of the Cerambycidae family. It is distributed in the Ussuri-Primorsky Region. Outside Russia, it is distributed in the northeastern part of China and North Korea. It inhabits broadleaved and coniferous-broadleaved forests.
The Saga pedo is a grasshopper of the Saginae subfamily. It is the largest grasshopper in Russia. It is listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it inhabits areas of unploughed steppes (Kursk, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Rostov, Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Regions, the Republics of Bashkortostan, Chechnya, Kalmykia, North Ossetia and Dagestan).
The postage stamps feature the following insects: the emperor dragonfly, the Panagaeus cruxmajor, the heavenly barbel and the Saga pedo.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow, as well as maxi-cards, an illustrated cover with postage stamps and a label, and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.
Design Artist: M. Bodrova.
Face value: 40 rubles each.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm; sheet size: 168×101 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet with formatted margins of 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 50 thousand stamps each (25 thousand sheets).
On October 30, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Fidel Castro, a statesman and political figure, will go into postal circulation
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926–2016) was a Cuban revolutionary, a statesman, a political and Party figure who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
In the early 1950s, he joined the Party of the Cuban People (Partido Ortodoxo). After the military coup of March 11, 1952, that resulted in General Fulgencio Batista seizing power, Fidel Castro found himself in the front ranks of the struggle against the dictatorship. He managed to unite a small group of former members of the collapsed party Partido Ortodoxo, which began preparations for the struggle to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. On July 26, 1953, the members of the group attacked the Moncada Barracks in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The attack was brutally suppressed. Fidel Castro was committed to a military tribunal. The court sentenced F. Castro to 15 years in prison; however, in May of 1955, he was amnestied under pressure from public opinion. In the same year, F. Castro emigrated to Mexico, where he founded the 26th of July Movement and began preparing an uprising.
After the victory of the revolution and the overthrow of the F. Batista’s dictatorship on January 1, 1959, F. Castro assumed command of the Cuban Army, and in February of 1959, took the position of the Cuba’s Head of the Government.
Since October of 1965, Fidel Castro was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. In 1976, he became Chairman of the State Council of the Cuban National Assembly, combining the positions of the Head of the Government and the Head of the State. On February 19, 2008, Fidel Castro announced his resignation from the post of the leader of Cuba.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Fidel Castro against the background of the state flag of the Republic of Cuba.
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. Beltyukov.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm; sheet size: 170×151 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet of 15 (5×3) stamps.
Quantity: 82.5 thousand stamps (5.5 thousand sheets).
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