Full State Counselor 1st Class of the Russian Federation Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, Head of the Federal Communications Agency; Alexander Surinov, Head of the Federal State Statistics Service; and Elena Astrakhantseva, Deputy Minister for Agriculture of the Russian Federation, took part in the event.
In 2016, the regular All-Russian Agricultural Census will take place from 1 July till 15 August and from 15 September till 15 November in remote locations.
The postage stamp features the All-Russian Agricultural Census logo. The stamp’s print-run amounts to 297,000 copies and the face value is 20 RUB. The stamps will be available in all postal offices within the country and Russian citizens will be able to use them to pay for sending their postal correspondence within Russia and abroad.
“The postage stamp carries on the tradition to issue postal products timed to important statistic works. Both during the Soviet period of our history and in modern Russia stamps and envelopes were issued to commemorate general censuses of the population” said Mr. Dukhovnitskiy.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a first day cover and a first day postmark for Moscow.
Design: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 20 RUB.
Size of stamp: 37×37 mm, size of sheet: 152×152 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 9 (3×3) stamps.
Circulation: 297,000 stamps (33,000 sheets).
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