On September 26, two stamps dedicated to the 125th Birth Anniversaries of Marshals of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsy and Matvei Zakharov, were put into postal circulation in the Marshals of the Soviet Union series

   

Rodion Malinovsky (1898-1967) was a Soviet statesman and military leader, a commander, a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944).

Rodion Malinovsky was born on November 23 of 1898 in Odessa. He was a participant of the First World War. In the interwar period, he held command and headquarters positions. From 1939, Rodion Malinovsky was a Senior Lecturer at the Frunze Military Academy and from March of 1941, the commander of the 48th Rifle Corps.

During the Great Patriotic War, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Stalingrad. The army under the command of Rodion Malinovsky in the interaction with other armies stopped and then defeated Army Group Don of Field Marshal E. von Manstein, who tried to unblock the encircled grouping of F. Paulus near Stalingrad. General Malinovsky's troops liberated Rostov-on-Don and Donbass, participated in the clearing of the Right-Bank Ukraine from the enemy, liberated Odessa, and in coordination with General Tolbukhin's troops defeated the southern wing of the enemy front by encircling 22 Nazi divisions and the 3rd Romanian Army in the Jassy-Kishinev operation.

After the termination of the Soviet-Japanese War in 1945, Rodion Malinovsky commanded the troops of the Transbaikal-Amur Military District. In 1947, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East troops, and then the Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. From March of 1956, he was a First Deputy Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. From October of 1957, Rodion Malinovsky occupied a post of the Minister of Defense of the USSR.

Matvei Zakharov (1898–1972) was a Soviet statesman and military leader, a commander, a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1959).

He was born on August 17 of 1898 in the Tver Province. During the Great Patriotic War, Matvei Zakharov was the Chief of Staff of the 9th Army, the Chief of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the North-Western direction, of Headquarters of the Kalinin, Reserve and Steppe, 2nd Ukrainian and Transbaikal Fronts. He successfully developed more than 20 front operations, among them being Belgorod-Kharkov, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Jassy-Kishinev, Budapest offensives and others.

After the termination of the War, Matvei Zakharov was the Head of the K. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Since January of 1949, he headed the Main Intelligence Directorate as a Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence, a Chief Inspector of the Soviet Army, the Commander of the Leningrad Military District, and since November of 1957, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany

The postage stamps provide portraits of Marshals of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsy and Matvei Zakharov.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tver as well as maxi-cards.


Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm; sheet size: 168×177 mm.
Emission form: sheets with 12 (4×3) stamps.
Quantity: 96 thousand each stamp (8 thousand each sheet).
Дополнительно к выпуску почтовых марок изданы конверты первого дня и изготовлены штемпеля специального гашения для Москвы, Санкт-Петербурга и Твери, а также картмаксимумы.

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