The event was attended by Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, Head of the Federal Communications Agency; and Nikolai Kasimov, Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ceremony was held in the Central House of Artists during the festival dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society.
The Russian Geographical Society (RGS) was founded by a Royal Decree of Emperor Nicholas I in 1845. The idea to establish the Society belonged to Admiral Fyodor Litke, a mentor of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, a future first RGS president. The new organization was tasked with “collecting and directing the best young forces of Russian to all-round study of the native land”.
Nowadays the Russian Geographical Society numbers 13,000 members in Russia and abroad. The Society has offices in all 85 regions of the Russian Federation. In November 2009, Vladimir Putin headed the supervisory board of the Russian Geographical Society. Sergey Shoigu, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, is the current president of the Russian Geographical Society.
The postage stamp was released into circulation July 23, 2015. It depicts a logo of the Russian Geographical Society.
“This postage stamp is available at all post offices of our country. Citizens are able to use it while sending the correspondence in Russia and abroad. It will promote the popularity and recognition of the Russian Geographical Society on the world stage”, - said the Head of the Federal Communications Agency.
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