Radio is a form of information wireless transmission where information carrier is radio waves freely distributed in space. In May 7, 1895, at a meeting of the Russian Physicochemical Society in St. Petersburg, Russian scientist and inventor, physicist and electrical engineer Alexander S. Popov delivered a comprehensive report and demonstrated the operation of the world's first radio receiver.
The stamp provides an image of a radio set of 1895 from the collection of the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications.
In addition to the issue of the postal stamp, JSC
Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod, Stavropol, Kemerovo and Penza.
Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 40 rubles
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 170×152 mm.
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 15 (5×3) stamps.
Quantity: 150 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).
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