On March 28, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Innokenty Smoktunovsky, an actor, a People's Artist of the USSR, was put into postal circulation

Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925-1994), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, an elocutionist; an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1964); a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969); a People's Artist of the USSR (1974). He was a Hero of Socialist Labor (1990), a Winner of the Lenin Prize (1965) and the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1971).

He was born on March 28, 1925, in the village of Tatyanovka of the Bogorodsky District (currently, the Shegarsky District of the Tomsk Region). He was a participant of the Great Patriotic War.

The images created by Smoktunovsky on stage - Prince Myshkin in the Bolshoi Drama Theater, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in the Maly Drama Theater, Chekhov's Ivanov and Porfiry Golovlev in the Moscow Art Theater - entered the golden pool of Russian theater art. I. Smoktunovsky was referred to as the first intellectual actor of the Soviet cinema sector; he played his best roles in the films Soldiers, Nine Days of One Year, Hamlet, Tchaikovsky, Ladies' Tailor and in the lyrical comedy Beware of the Car.

The postage stamp features a portrait of Innokenty Smoktunovsky.

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


Design Artist: V. Khablovsky.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 63 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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