New Year is a magical and the most beloved holiday filled with family traditions, kindness and comfort, the citrus and pine scent, with cheerful talk and songs, delicious dainty dishes and drinks on the table. In the last days of December, each house turns into a winter fairy tale, decorated with festive balls, wreaths of fir twigs, cones, small lanterns and snowflakes.
JSC Marka with support from the Moscow Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Union of Philatelists of Russia held the All-Russian competition of drawings of a postage stamp and a greeting card for the New Year and Christmas for professional and amateur artists. The jury of the contest consisted of professional artists, graphic artists and designers, members of the Union of Artists of Russia. In total, the competition organizers received 308 competitive artworks performed in various techniques: graphic design, watercolor, oil, pencil drawing, etc. The winners drawing contest were Svetlana Chernykh and Polina Mitroshkina.
The postage stamp features a drawing of a New Year Tree toy Hut by Svetlana Chernykh.
Artist: S. Chernykh; Design: M. Korneeva.
Face value: 19 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×138 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 243 thousand stamps (27 thousand sheets); 45 thousand stamps (5 thousand sheets) (the second emission type*).
*the second emission type is to be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
The postage stamp features a drawing of a hare in a winter forest by Polina Mitroshkina.
Artist: P. Mitroshkina; Design: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 27 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 152×152 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 351 thousand stamps (39 thousand sheets).
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Penza, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Sevastopol, Simferopol, and Rostov-on-Don; as well as two maxi-cards and illustrated envelopes for postage stamps with a label, First Day Covers with special cancels for Moscow and a stamp of the second emission type with a holographic foil hut.
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