On March 25, a postage stamp dedicated to the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve was put into postal circulation in the Treasures of Russia series

The East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve dates its history back to the personal collection of Paul Du Brux (1774–1835), the founder of Kerch archaeology.

On June 2 (14) of 1826, the museum was officially established. Until 1833, the building of the Museum was located in the house of P. Du Brux. The first director of the Museum was I. Blaramberg.

One of the most fruitful periods in the history of the Museum was the period from 1891 to 1918. Director K. Dumberg was the first to conduct systematic excavations of the ancient settlement of Panticapaeum. His successor, V. Shkorpil, a well-known epigrapher and archaeologist, was engaged in excavations of underground necropolises and mounds. Guided tours were organized. At the end of 1920, the Museum was given its current name; it significantly expanded its display space, and substantially replenished its collections.

Since 1944, the museum administration was tasked with the post-war restoration of the Museum. The Museum put in orderd archaeological monuments, staged exhibitions, created a new display, and published a museum guidebook. Unfortunately, the old Museum building on Mount Mithridat was severely damaged during the war, and was completely demolished in the late 1950s.

Today, the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve is rightfully considered one of the oldest museums and it is a dynamically developing museum institution that widely implements innovative forms of work.

The collection of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve has in store more than 242 thousand museum items, including about 200 thousand in the main records, as well as about 41 thousand on the scientific and auxiliary list.

Among the most valuable collections is the collection of archaeological ceramics, which includes a range of front-rank examples of antique painted ceramics — authentic masterpieces of Greek applied art, including a collection of black and red-figure antique painted vases of the 6th to 4th centuries BC.

The postage stamp features a red-figure hydria with a scene of ablution, Attica (mid-4th century B.C.) from the collection of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kerch of the Republic of Crimea.


Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 76 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×65 mm, sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (4×2) 6 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 54 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).

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