On May 7, five postage stamps dedicated to painters Aleksandr Deyneka, Geliy Korzhev, Evsey Moiseyenko, Georgy Moskalev and Vladimir Pereyaslavets were put into postal circulation

The Great Patriotic War has become one of the most highlighted subjects in the fine arts. Many artists created artworks that are vivid in artistic and emotional perception, which even today appeal to patriotism and do not leave viewers indifferent. They feature spirited faces of soldiers, heroic feats of ordinary people, battle scenes, and stubborn resistance to the enemy. The stamps of this issue present artworks by A. Deyneka, G. Korzhev, E. Moiseyenko, G. Moskalev and V. Pereyaslavets.


Aleksandr Deyneka (1899–1969) was a Russian Soviet painter, a muralist, a graphic artist, a sculptor and an educator. During the Great Patriotic War, he made political posters for the Windows of TASS military defense poster workshop, and he used to go to the front. In the foreground in his work there came the socio-political themes and military subjects; even the artist’s urban landscapes became dramatic and frightening, in the true colors presenting all the hardships and horrors of war. Some of his famous artworks are The Mother, To-be Pilots, The Defense of Sevastopol, The Downed Ace and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Aleksandr Deyneka against the backdrop of his painting Onboard a Ship.


Geliy Korzhev (1925–2012) was a Soviet and Russian artist, a painter and an educator. He is an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1970; a Corresponding Member since 1962), a People's Artist of the USSR (1979), a Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1987) and the Repin State Prize of the RSFSR (1966). During the War, he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School and then, from 1944 to 1950, at the V. Surikov Moscow Art Institute. G. Korzhev's work is dedicated to severe civil themes; his paintings show the fate of the post-war generation. Some of his famous artworks are Lovers, The Safety Screen, Clouds of 1945, A Glass of Milk and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Geliy Korzhev against the backdrop of his painting Seeing-Off.


Evsey Moiseyenko (1916–1988) was a Soviet painter and a tutor. He is an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973; a Corresponding Member since 1962), a Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). In 1935, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His studies were interrupted by the Great Patriotic War: on July 5 of 1941, he volunteered for the People's Militia. On the outskirts of Leningrad, he fell into Nazi captivity together with his unit. Until April of 1945, he was in the concentration camp in Altengrabow. When the prisoners were liberated by the Allied forces, he was transported to his homeland. He finished the war fighting in the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps. After demobilization in 1945, he returned to the Institute and graduated from it in 1947 with the qualification of a painter of pectoral art. The main theme of his work was the War: suffering, the height of the human spirit, tragic losses and the happiness of Victory. The artist tried to portray what he had experienced, he was a master of portraiture; he painted lyrical landscapes, still lifes, created paintings on genre and everyday themes. Some of his famous artworks are Partisans, the series This cannot be forgotten, Mothers, Sisters, Van-Couriers, The Victory, Veterans, A Song and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Evsey Moiseyenko against the backdrop of his painting Victory from the Years of War series.


Georgy Moskalev (1925–2011) was a Soviet and Russian graphic artist and an illustrator a Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). He is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982), a People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR (1975), a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1957. In January of 1943, he was enlisted in the Red Army and accepted as a cadet in the Transbaikal Military Infantry School. In May of 1944, after having finished an accelerated course he graduation with the rank of junior lieutenant and was sent to the 176th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 59th Guards Rifle Division of the 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, where he was promoted to the position of a machine-gun platoon commander. He took part in the Jassy-Kishinev offensive, liberated Bender and Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. He finished the war as a company commander. In 1946, after demobilization, G. Moskalev entered the Irkutsk Art School. In the 1970s, he worked as a graphic artist; the main theme he chose was the Great Patriotic War. Some of his famous artworks are The Battle for the Danube, The Breakthrough, The Dawn, One to One and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Georgy Moskalev against the backdrop of his painting One to One.


Vladimir Pereyaslavets (1918–2018) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a tutor, an artist of the M. Grekov Studio of Military Artists (1950), an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2002; a Corresponding Member since 1995), a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). He was a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of the USSR, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1957). In 1938-1941, he studied at the Moscow State Art Institute. In 1941, he of his own accord left the Institute from the 4th year and entered the Central Aeroclub named after V. Chkalov in Moscow, and then took a training course in the 12th squadron of night flights in Samarkand. In 1942-1944, he studied at the Odessa military school of fighter pilots, and after graduation, he went to the front as a fighter pilot of the 1st aviation squadron of the 119th fighter aviation regiment of the 104th aviation division, which was part of the 1st Air Army. In 1946-1950, he returned to the Institute. V. Pereyaslavets worked in the genre of easel painting, portrait, landscape and still life. Some of his famous artworks are Descendants of Pushkin - Participants of the Great Patriotic War, Three Generations of Russian Sailors, The Youth of Our Sky, Flying about a Great Deal, 50 Years Later, The Victory Day, and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of painter Vladimir Pereyaslavets against the backdrop of his painting Air Fight.


In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk and Ulan-Ude.


Design Artist: M. Podobed.
Face value: 80 rubles each stamp.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 129×96 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (3×2) 5 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 18 thousand sheets.

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