On November 20, a stamp featuring a monument to road construction heroes in the Donetsk People's Republic was put into postal circulation

The monument In Memory of Road Construction Heroes is located in the city of Volnovakha, the Donetsk People's Republic, at the 680th km of the R-150 federal highway.

It is dedicated to road workers who died while restoring roads and bridges and building fortifications during the special military operation in the territories of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhskaya and Khersonskaya Regions.

The initiative to install the monument came from the Avtodor state-owned company with support from the Federal Road Agency. The monument was designed by People's Artist of the Russian Federation Salavat Shcherbakov.

The monument was officially unveiled on August 1 of 2025. The ceremony was attended by Marat Khusnullin, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Denis Pushilin, the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The monument is made as a granite stele crowned with the Order of Courage; below, there are the coats of arms of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Khersonskaya and Zaporozhskaya Regions. In the center of the composition, there are figures of three workers, symbolizing different professions of the road industry; the background ingrafts the moments of daily work of road workers, filled with courageous deeds.

The postage stamp provides an image of the monument In Memory of Road Construction Heroes.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Donetsk, as well as a maxi-card.


Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×65 mm, sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Emission form: a sheet (4×2) with 7 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 59.5 thousand stamps (8.5 thousand sheets).

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