On January 12, a postage stamp dedicated to the 75th Birth Anniversary of statesman Valery Bugaenko was put into postal circulation in the Outstanding Communications Men of Russia series

V. Bugaenko was born on January 5, 1951, in the village of Shalygino of the Sumy Region. He served in the Armed Forces since 1968. He graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Command and Engineering School, the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Military Artillery Academy with a degree in “radio engineering complexes for space communications,” and advanced courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He served in the Strategic Missile Forces and the Military Space Forces of Russia in various engineering and command positions related to the organization of communications and the control of communications spacecraft.

Since 2000, V. Bugaenko worked at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (a deputy head, the head of the department for communications and information technology supervision). Since 2004, he headed the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications. He was one of the drafters of the Communications Act. In 2007, Valery Bugaenko was appointed head of the Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz). Rossvyaz is responsible for postal exchange issues, setting interoperator tariffs for connection and traffic transmission, allocating numbering resources, universal services, the certification system, assigning orbital frequency positions for spacecraft, and measures to restore a unified telecommunications network in emergencies. Under the direction of V. Bugaenko, a reform of the state supervision system in the field of communications and information technology was carried out. The development of Russian electrical and postal networks was in progress, and a modern telecommunications infrastructure was under construction as part of the implementation of federal target programs.

The postage stamp presents a portrait of Valery Bugaenko against the backdrop of the Central Telegraph building.

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


Design Artist: V. Beltyukov.
Face value: 75 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 110×118 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 6 (2×3) stamps.
Quantity: 42 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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