On November 11, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence of Russia was put into postal circulation

The Scientific and Technical Intelligence is one of the priority areas of activities for the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

On October 26 of 1925, F. Dzerzhinsky, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR, sent a proposal to the leaders of the Foreign Department of the OGPU to organize scientific and technical intelligence. This was justified by the fact that the state strategic task of obtaining foreign information about the latest scientific and technical achievements, advanced technological equipment and promising military equipment, carefully hidden from competitors, can only be solved by special methods of foreign intelligence personnel with special professional training.

With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, more than a thousand secret materials (drawings, diagrams, descriptions, instructions, technical samples) were obtained and implemented in such fields as jet and high-speed aviation technology, radar detection technology, special chemistry, biological weapons protection, pharmacology, and nuclear energy.

Intelligence officers - heroes of Russia who made an invaluable contribution to the creation of domestic nuclear weapons were L. Kvasnikov, V. Barkovsky, A. Yatskov, A. Feklisov, M. and L. Cohens.

During the Cold War years, scientific and technical intelligence focused primarily on ensuring national and international security based on nuclear parity with the United States and the advanced development of all types of weapons and military equipment.

Since 1991, scientific and technical intelligence has been one of the priority areas of intelligence activity for the Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. Following the traditions that have been created by the work of many generations of NTR intelligence professionals helps forward to successfully solve modern multi-vector tasks of ensuring the scientific, technical and technological components of national security in the new conditions of the post-industrial information society.

The postage stamp provides a stylized symbol of an atom; inside its orbits, there are schematic images of a warship, a fighter jet, an artificial Earth satellite, a nuclear power plant, a microchip, and artificial intelligence; in the center, there is a small emblem of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 50 rubles.
Stamp size (diam): 30 mm, sheet size: 141×141 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 99 thousand stamps (11 thousand sheets).

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