On October 4, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of the Gosfilmofond (a state film archive) of Russia was put into postal circulation

The Gosfilmofond of Russia is a chief and the largest archive of films of the Russian Federation, a member of the International Federation of Film Archives. It is a state cultural institution: a depository of the national collection of films and other film materials; it carries out collecting, creative and manufacturing, cultural and educational, investigative, methodological and informational activities in the sphere of cinematography.

Since 2019, the State Film Archive has been digitizing film materials within the framework of the Culture national project. The Gosfilmofond collection contains more than 70,000 film titles, ranging from silent films by the Lumière brothers shot in France in 1895 to modern Russian and foreign cinema production.

On October 4 of 1948, the Council of Ministers of the USSR issued a decree that ordained to transform the All-Union Film Depository of the USSR Ministry of Culture into the All-Union State Film Archive of the USSR (Gosfilmofond). In 1992, the State Film Archive of the USSR was renamed the State Film Archive of the Russian Federation. In 1993, by a Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the State Film Archive of Russia was placed in the Government List of the Most Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation. In 1998, it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the three largest film archives in the world.

The postage stamp provides an image of the building of the Gosfilmofond of Russia; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a cine film, reels and reel boxes.

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 95×70 mm, stamp size in the sheet: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 20 thousand sheets.

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