On July 15, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Domestic Civil Aviation of Russia was put into postal circulation within the framework of the Joint Issue of the Communications Administrations of the RCC Member Countries

The birth date of civil aviation in the USSR is the year of 1923 with the adoption of the Resolution of the Labor and Defense Council On the assignment of technical supervision of airlines to the Central Department of the Air Fleet and on the organization of the Civil Aviation Council. At the same time, the Russian Voluntary Air Fleet Society, Dobrolyot, the predecessor of Aeroflot, was established. In 1932, the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet was formed, and later Aeroflot was taken as the official name of the Soviet civil aviation; in 2004, the Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsya, originated.

In 1924, the tests of the first Soviet all-metal three-seater airplane ANT-2, developed in the A. Tupolev design bureau, began. In 1925, a PM-1 five-seater was built to the design of Nikolay Polikarpov, which conducted flights on the Moscow - Leningrad and Moscow - Berlin lines.

In 1935, 100% of the country's air fleet consisted of Soviet-made aircraft. In 1977, operation of supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144 was started, and in 1993, the first domestic long-haul wide-body aircraft, Il-96, designated for 300 passengers was set to work. In 2011, the airlines received the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.

The first passenger air terminal was opened in 1931 in the territory of the main airfield of the capital on the Khodynka field, and later on, international airports of Vnukovo (1941), Sheremetyevo (1960), and Domodedovo (1964) opened.

Today, the Russian civil aviation comprises 225 airports, 80 of which have the international status, more than 100 airline companies, 18 institutions of higher and secondary professional education, and other organizations. In total, nearly 200 thousand specialists make the personnel pool of these structures.

The postage stamp provides an image of the jubilee logo of the 100th Anniversary of the Civil Aviation of Russia against the background of the night view of Moscow, and the logo of the RCC.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, and Sevastopol, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with postage stamps, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.


Design Artist: N. Karpova.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 58×26 mm, sheet size: 136×129 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 104 thousand stamps (13 thousand sheets).

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