On December 20, a New Year's Eve meeting of philatelists and postcrossers took place in the Collectioner show room in Moscow

The event included the awarding of the winners of the All-Russian Drawing Competition of the designs of New Year postage stamps and postcards, as well as the presentation of the issued products. The official cancellation ceremony was attended by Artem Adibekov, the Director General of Joint Stock Company Marka; Andrey Malakhov, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Union of Philatelists of Russia, a TV journalist, a producer, an actor; and Irina Kiyan, the winner of the drawing contest and the author of the New Year postage stamp sketch.

The winner in the Postage Stamp nomination and of the Audience Choice Award:

1. Irina Kiyan from Moscow.

The winners in the Postcard nomination:

1. Ekaterina Ulyanova from Moscow;
2. Dmitry Aptukov from Moscow;
3. Irina Kiyan from Moscow;
4. Tamara Polyakova from Ekaterinburg;
5. Svetlana Frantseva from St. Petersburg.

Alexey Borodin, the President of the Union of Philatelists of Russia, congratulated the winners and awarded them with diplomas. On the basis of the winners' drawings, a postage stamp in the quantity of 423 thousand copies and 5 unstamped postcards of 700 copies each were issued.

The Collectioner show room with the participation of the Union of Philatelists of Russia organized a philatelic exhibition of New Year postal miniatures of the Russian Federation, and stamps with augmented reality. The artworks of the participants of the drawing contest were also on display. The exposition included sketches made in various techniques: graphic design, watercolor, oil, pencil drawing and others.

All participants of the meeting became the creators of an unusual New Year toy with the image of postage stamps made at the masterclass.

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