On September 25, a postage stamp dedicated to the Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky was put into postal circulation

Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895–1977) was the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, a Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, a member of the Supreme Command Headquarters; a Commander-in-Chief of Soviet forces in the Far East, a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Aleksandr Vasilevsky was born on September 18 (30) of 1895 in the village of Novaya Golchikha, Kineshma Uyezd of the Kostroma Province (nowadays, inside the limits of the city of Vichuga, Ivanovo Region). From February of 1915, he served in the Russian Imperial Army. In the same year, he finished the accelerated course at the Alekseevsky Military School in Moscow and received the rank of ensign. In May of 1916, he participated in the famous Brusilov breakthrough. From April 1919 he served in the Red Army, participated in the Civil War. In 1936, he was sent to study at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army; after completing his first year, he was appointed the Head of the logistics department of this Academy. From May of 1940, A. Vasilevsky was a deputy chief of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff.

He participated in the Great Patriotic War from the very first day. He made a significant contribution to the development of Soviet military art and participated in the development and implementation of the offensive plan at Stalingrad. At the instruction of the Supreme Command Headquarters, A. Vasilevsky coordinated the actions of the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts in the Battle of Kursk. He headed the planning and execution of operations to liberate Donbass, Northern Tavria, the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog operation, the operation to liberate Crimea, and the Belorussian operation. Aleksandr Vasilevsky was the Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He exercised direction of the assault on Königsberg. On July 30 of 1945, A. Vasilevsky was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Soviet forces in the Far East. Under his leadership, a plan was drawn up for a strategic offensive operation in Manchuria.

In the post-war period, A. Vasilevsky served as the Chief of the General Staff (1946–1948) and a First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1948–1949). He was the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1949–1950) and the Minister of Defense of the USSR (1950–1953). From 1953 to 1956, he was a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR and a Deputy Minister of Defense for Military Science.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of the Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Ivanovo and Kineshma of the Ivanovo Region, as well as a maxi-card.


Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 63 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, sheet size: 168×178 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 12 (4×3) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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