The All-Russian drawing competition of a postage stamp and a greeting postcard for New Year and Christmas among professional artists has already been held for 8 years. In total, the organizers received more than 350 contest entries made in various techniques. Based on the Competition winners’ drawings, two New Year postage stamps have been issued.
The postage stamp provides an artwork by Natalia Shomovskaya: a polar bear with a snowflake.
Artist: N. Shomovskaya; Design: N. Karpova.
Face value: 25 rubles.
Stamp size: 28×40 mm, sheet size: 130×105 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 344 thousand stamps (43 thousand sheets).
The second postage stamp presents an artwork by Anastasia Lyashenko: the symbol of the coming year - a red horse against the background of a mailbox with a New Year's pattern and a matryoshka doll.
Artist: A. Lyashenko; Design: M. Bodrova and O. Savina.
Face value: 33 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 152×152 mm.
Emission form: sheets with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps and (3×3) with 8 stamps and a coupon.
Quantity: 450 thousand stamps (50 thousand sheets); 4 thousand sheets (the 2-nd emission type*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Orel and Voronezh, as well as maxi-cards, unstamped postcards, and an illustrated cover with the 2-nd emission type of the stamp with a horse painted metallic blue inside.« back