May 6, a cancellation ceremony of a postage stamp dedicated Roman A. Rudenko (1907-1981) issued in the series "Outstanding Lawyers of Russia" was held at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The participants of the ceremony were Alexander Konovalov, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, Head of the Federal Communications Agency; Alexander Zvyagintsev, Solicitor General of the Russian Federation and Alexander Sukharev, State Counselor of Justice of Class I, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.



Head of ROSCOM said that it is noteworthy that the stamp dedicated to Roman Rudenko, the Chief State Prosecutor of the USSR at the Nuremberg trials, is to be released into circulation on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The issue of a postage stamp allows to remind the world about the role of the Soviet Union in exposing fascism once again, and to attract wide attention of Russian and international public to the outstanding Russian lawyers, whose work is a prime example of personal courage and selfless service to the Motherland ", - said Oleg Dukhovnitsky .



Alexander Konovalov thanked the Federal Communications Agency for the issue of a new postage stamp in the series "Outstanding Lawyers of Russia", which is issued since 2012.



During this time, were released into circulation postage stamps depicted Gabriel Derzhavin, the first Minister of Justice; Anatoliy Koni, outstanding court spokesman; and dedicated to lawyers such as Mikhail Speranskiy, Alexander Radishchev and Fedor N. Plevako. In 2014 stamps dedicated to Yaguzhinskiy Pavel (1683-1736), diplomat, associate of Peter I, the first General Prosecutor; Friedrich Martens (1845-1909) world-class lawyer scholar; Sergey Muromtsev (1850-1910) lawyer, the first chairman of the State Duma.
The stamp depicts a portrait of Roman A. Rudenko and the emblem of Russian Ministry of Justice.

Design: S.Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 17 RUB
Size of stamp: 37 × 37 mm, size of sheet: 131 × 131 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins with 8 (3 × 3) stamps and a coupon.
Circulation: 272 thousand stamps (34 thousand of sheets).

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