On November 14, a stamp dedicated to the scientific mission of automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 was put into postal circulation in the Space Projects of Russia series

Luna is a series of Soviet and Russian automatic interplanetary stations for studying and photographic recording of the Moon and for space exploration.

Luna-25 is a part of the Russian lunar program, the first Russian lunar mission on-going at the Lavochkin Association, JSC, for the exploration and practical use of the Moon and near-lunar space by automatic interplanetary stations.

The Luna-25 station has been designed using only Russian equipment and the latest achievements in space instrumentation engineering.

AIS Luna-25 was launched on August 11 of 2023 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome by a Soyuz2.1b launch vehicle with a Fregat upper stage that put the station on a flight trajectory to the Moon. On August 20, during the transition to the landing orbit, the station ceased to exist having collided with the surface of the Moon.

The postage stamp provides an image of automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 on a mission to the Moon.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yevpatoria of the Republic of Crimea, Zvyozdny Gorodok of the Moscow Region, Kaluga, Penza, Saratov and Chelyabinsk, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with the postage stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Zvyozdny Gorodok of the Moscow Region inside.


Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 27 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 170×151 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 15 (5×3) stamps.
Quantity: 255 thousand stamps (17 thousand sheets).

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