On May 22, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper was put into postal circulation

The Komsomolskaya Pravda social and political newspaper has been published since 1925. The first issue that appeared on May 24, 1925, had a circulation of 31,000 copies. The newspaper regularly addressed the issue of young people participation in the collectivization of agriculture, in the construction projects of the first five-year plan (Dneproges, Moscow and Gorky automobile plants, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, etc.). Komsomolskaya Pravda actively promoted sports, encouraged young people to mass tourism.

From the very beginning, Komsomolskaya Pravda published works by well-known Soviet writers and poets. Over four years, V. Mayakovsky was on the staff of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The newspaper published war essays by A. Gaidar, chapters from the Young Guard novel by A. Fadeev. From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, the newspaper published front reports, numerous letters from and to the frontline. After the end of the war, the newspaper actively participated in mobilizing young people for the restoration of the national economy. The off-premise editorial offices of Komsomolskaya Pravda were set up at the Dneproges, in ruined Stalingrad, etc. In the second half of the 1980s, it supported the reforms carried out by M. Gorbachev. Until October of 1990, it was an organ of the Central Committee of Komsomol, and on October 29 of 1990, it was registered with the USSR State Committee for Press. From December 1, Komsomolskaya Pravda began to be published under the header All-Union Daily Newspaper. In 1991, joint-stock company Komsomolskaya Pravda was established.

Today, Komsomolskaya Pravda is a nationwide Russian newspaper. It is issued in more than 40 cities in Russia, most of the former Soviet republics and is distributed throughout the CIS, as well as in Western Europe, the USA, and Israel. It is one of the few central newspapers that has retained a network of its own correspondents throughout the former USSR and abroad. The newspaper covers news of politics, culture, economy, sports, social life and a good number of other issues.

The postage stamp provides symbols of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, as well as its awards: an Order of Honor, an Order of Lenin, an Order of October Revolution, an Order of Patriotic War, the first class, and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Donetsk, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov, Simferopol, Stavropol and Chelyabinsk.


Design Artist: I. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm, sheet size: 155×161 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 80 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).

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