On May 6, stamps dedicated to the Berlin and Prague operations was put into postal circulation in the Path to Victory series



The Berlin Offensive Operation (April 16 – May 8, 1945) was a terminative stage of the Great Patriotic War; in the course of the operation, Soviet troops defeated more than 500,000 enemy grouping and took by assault the German capital, Berlin.

The stamp provides an image of a bas-relief with a group of Soviet soldiers participating in the Berlin offensive operation with a banner for planting on top the Reichstag building.



The Prague Offensive Operation (May 6–11, 1945) was the last strategic operation of the Red Army against Nazi Germany; in the course of the operation, German Army Groupings Center and partly South were destroyed and Czechoslovakia and its capital Prague were liberated.

The World War II in Europe was in fact completed.

The stamp provides an image of a group of Soviet soldiers with liberated citizens in Prague.

In addition to the issue of the postal stamps, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 60 rubles
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm; sheet size: 180×180 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 7 (2×4) stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 119 thousand stamps (17 thousand sheets); 133 thousand stamps (19 thousand sheets).

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