On September 19, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Kimry Gorky Factory was put into postal circulation

The factory dates back to September 20 of 1925, when the 1st Kimry cooperative and producers’ guild of tailors for fabrication of men's and women's clothing was organized. In 1933, it was renamed the Kimry cooperative of tailors named after Maxim Gorky. From that year, on orders of the People's Commissariat of Defense, it started sewing military uniforms: greatcoats, pea coats, dress jackets and field jackets.

During the Great Patriotic War, production was rebuilt to produce products for the front: sewing of helmets for tankers, shoulder boards, quilted jackets, and overcoats. Uniforms that needed repair were delivered by the Volga on barges and then sent back to the front. The workers, mostly women, manually loaded the finished products themselves.

Since 1959, alongside with the production of wearing apparel, the factory started the manufacturing of new products: personal respiratory protection equipment for dealing with radioactive substances – Lepestok respirators ShB-1.

Since March of 1965, the factory has been under the jurisdiction of the State Committee for Utilization of Atomic Energy and fully specializes only in the production of polymer materials for handling radioactive substances. Since 1968, it also produces analytical aerosol filters AFA. In the 1970s and 1980s, the factory was making good headway, increasing the amount of products and product range. After the Chernobyl accident, the factory worked in three shifts, providing the disaster liquidators with respirators and protective clothing. In 2008, the company mastered the production of new types of protective clothing made of non-woven materials: overalls, bib overalls, jackets, trousers, aprons, frocks, splash coats, oversleeves, shoe covers, and caps.

Today, JSC Kimry Gorky Factory is a key specialized enterprise in the market of personal respiratory and skin protective equipment for dealing with radioactive and aggressive agents. It has its own scientific base, laboratory and design bureau.

The postage stamp provides an image of a person in protective clothing in production at the Kimry factory, against the background of the enterprise building.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kimry of the Tver Region.


Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 54 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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