On August 19, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of communications scientist Vladimir Matsnev was put into postal circulation

Vladimir Matsnev (1924-2023) was an outstanding communications scientist.

He was born on August 19, 1924, in the village of Ilovai-Rozhdestvenskoye, the Khobotovsky District of the Tambov Region. He was a participant of the Great Patriotic War. In 1951, Matsnev graduated with honors from the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. Then he worked at the Moscow Main Post Office, at the Central Research Institute of Communications, defended his PhD thesis. In 1961, he was transferred to work in the Main Directorate of Postal Communications of the USSR Ministry of Communications and was appointed a Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Postal Communications, some time afterwards – the Head of the Main Directorate of Postal Communications.

In 1979, V. Matsnev was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Communications of the RSFSR. The main tasks in his work were the creation and development of the production base, introduction of equipment for rural telephone communications and broadcasting facilities, upgrading of facilities of area communication centers, replenishment of enterprises with mechanisation and transport facilities.

V. Matsnev is the author of numerous scientific publications and the Postal Communications handbook, one of the developers of the Federal Law On Postal Communications, the code of postal services, a set of normative legal acts to ensure the safety of postal items and money. With his participation, six textbooks were prepared and published for higher and secondary specialized educational institutions for training specialists of the communications industry.

In 1992, on the initiative of Vladimir Matsnev, the Organization of Veterans of Labor and the Great Patriotic War of the Central Office of the Ministry of Communications of Russia was established, where he became the first Chairman of the Board of the organization and headed it for more than 20 years.

V. Matsnev was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, second grade, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Order of the Badge of Honor, as well as medals For Victory over Germany and others. He was an Honored Communications Worker of the USSR, a holder of the Master of Communications title.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of V. Matsnev against the background of the Central Telegraph building in Moscow.

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


Design Artist: V. Beltyukov.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×176 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 15 (3×5) stamps.
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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