Joint Stock Company Marka took part in the Front Dog Day family festival in Moscow

At the festival, Joint Stock Company Marka presented a thematic exposition Breeds of Service Dogs on Russian Postage Stamps, and one of the authors, design artist Sergey Ulyanovsky, told about the history of designing postal miniatures.

For example, in 2023, a postage stamp was issued in the series On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which featured a collie dog named Dick with a military engineer and a commander of an engineer company. During the Great Patriotic War, he was a de-miner dog, a communications officer and an orderly; he participated in demining operations in the territory of the Leningrad Region, Stalingrad, Lisichansk, and Prague. The brave dog performed his main feat in the city of Pavlovsk of the Leningrad Region. On retreating from the city on the Neva, Nazis left a clockwork mine in the foundation of the Pavlovsk Palace. Dick discovered the mine an hour before the explosion.

A 2016 postage stamp in the Fauna of Russia series shows a German shepherd dog in the image of the Dobrynya puppy, who was handed over by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to French Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert in December of 2015. Dobrynya took the place of service dog Diesel, who was killed during a terrorists neutralization special operation in France.

Family festival Front Dog Day was held on August 17 in the Branch of the Victory Museum - the Chief Armory Relics of the Army Museum. The event was dedicated to heroic deeds of service dogs during the Great Patriotic War. In the surroundings of a large-scale exposition of military equipment, weapons and engineering structures, canine handlers and their four-legged friends reproduced combat episodes of the wartime. The audience saw the work of dogs of various ‘professions’ - tank fighters, communications officers, military medics, miners, and rescuers, for instance, the feat of shepherd dog Dina, the detention of sabverters at the border, the rescue of the wounded and the work of scout dogs.


 


 

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