On May 20, a postage stamp featuring a monument to the Young Guard Heroes was put into postal circulation in the Monuments of the Russian Military Historical Society series

The All-Russian Public-State Organization Russian Military Historical Society is a Russian voluntary, self-governing public state-owned association founded in 2012 by Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the charter of the Russian Military Historical Society, its activities are aimed at “consolidation of the efforts of the state and society in studying Russia’s military historical past, assistance in the study of Russian military history, counter efforts to attempts to distort it, support of the popularization of achievements in military-historical science, fostering patriotism, raising the prestige of military service, and preserving sites of military-historical cultural heritage”. In order to achieve these goals, the Society carries out its activities in a variety of different directions. Over the period of its activities, the organization has erected more than 200 monuments in Russia and abroad.

The Russian Military Historiocal Society actively collaborates with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, organizing battle reenactments, military history camps for children (presently, there are 15 of them), and the installment of monuments to heroes of various military conflicts.

These include:
— a memorial dedicated to the Kronstadt Uprising located in Kronstadt, in the Patriot Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation;
— monuments to Prince Vladimir. One of them is located in Moscow on Borovitskaya Square;
— monuments to Marshals K. Rokossovsky and A. Vasilevsky in Moscow;
— a monument to General P. Kotlyarevsky in Feodosia;
— a monument to Ivan III in Kaluga;
— a memorial to Prince Alexander Nevsky and his military retinue in the Pskov Region.

The Russian Military Historical Society has prepared and published 10 scientific works and dozens popular publications.

The postage stamp provides an image of a monument to the Young Guard Heroes installed in Moscow in 2024, sculptor – M. Baskakov.

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


Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 97 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 140×110 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (4×2) 6 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 42 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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