On November 20, a postage stamp dedicated to a bridge over the Oka River of the M-12 Highway was put into postal circulation in the framework of the Architectural Structures. Bridges series

The bridge over the Oka River in the city of Murom in the Vladimir Region on the M-12 Vostok highway is the first cable-braced bridge on the network of high-speed highways of the Avtodor State Company. It connected the banks of two federal districts: the Central and the Volga Federal Districts, as well as of the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod Regions.

On December 21 of 2023, the traffic was launched on the span of M-12 Vostok highway from Moscow to Kazan. The capital of Tatarstan can now be reached in just 6.5 hours. The highway runs via the territory of five regions: Moscow, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod Regions, the Chuvash Republic and the Republic of Tatarstan. It will become the basis of the Russia 12,000-km long high-speed transport route from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.

The M-12 Vostok high-speed motorway is a part of the Europe - Western China international transportation route. The length of the highway is more than 800 km. In the course of its construction, more than 300 artificial structures were built, including three unique bridges: a cable-braced bridge over the Oka River, a one-piece bridge over the Sura River and a 3-km long bridge over the Volga River. The M-12 Vostok highway relieves one of the busiest routs in the country: the M-7 Volga federal road. The M-12 Vostok highway has 19 traffic interchanges with federal and major regional highways. For the drivers’ convenience, multifunctional service zones are under construction at intervals of 30-65 km of the highway

The postage stamp provides an image of the bridge over the Oka River on the M-12 Vostok highway in the Vladimir Region.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Murom of the Vladimir Region, as well as a maxi-card, an illustrated cover with the postage stamp, a label and an envelope with a cancel for Murom of the Vladimir Region inside.


Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 72 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 146×174 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 15 (3×5) stamps.
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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