May 7, festive events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU): postage stamp cancellation ceremony and the opening of a memorial plaque in honor of A.S. Popov were held in the building of the Central Museum of Communications named after A.S. Popov.
The participants of the ceremony were Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, Head of the Federal Communications Agency and Mr. Houlin Dzhao, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union.
Oleg Dukhovnitskiy congratulated the staff of the International Telecommunication Union and said that for the past 150 years of activity, the International Telecommunication Union is a symbol, an important integrating element and the driving force of the development of the telecommunications industry worldwide.
Houlin Dzhao, the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, thanked the Federal Communications Agency for the issue of a postage stamp dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the ITU.
Earlier in the Soviet Union in 1965 left a stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union was released into circulation in 1965, USSR and was depicted the ITU emblem and a ticker-tape.
The stamp of this year depicts the logo of the 150th anniversary of the ITU on a blue background.
Design: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 17 RUB
Size of stamp: 42 × 30 mm, size of sheet: 142 × 165 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 12 (3 × 4) stamps.
Circulation: 405 thousand stamps (27 thousand sheets).
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