On June 10, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Igor Spassky, a scientist, an engineer, a Hero of Socialist Labor, was put into postal circulation

Igor Spassky (1926–2024) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, an engineer, and a chief designer of the Rubin Leningrad Planning and Installation Bureau under the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR; a Scientific Director of Joint-Stock Company Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering ‘Rubin’ in St. Petersburg. Igor Spassky was a Hero of Socialist Labor, a Holder of the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize. He was a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (until 1992 - a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR), an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor. Spassky was a Hero of the Russian Federation, a member of the Interdepartmental Scientific Council on Shipbuilding of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

I. Spassky was born on August 2 of 1926, in the town of Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate (presently, Noginsk of the Moscow Region). In 1949, he graduated from the Steam Power Department of the F. Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering School. From 1949, he served in the Soviet Navy. Since 1953, he worked at Central Design Bureau No. 18, holding positions ranging from design engineer to deputy chief designer of nuclear submarines. From 1968, he worked as a chief engineer. In 1974, he was appointed the Head and the Chief Designer (and from 1983, the General Designer) at the Leningrad Rubin Design and Installation Bureau (Design Bureau No. 18; currently, OJSC Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering ‘Rubin’). He held this position until the end of 2006. In 2007, he began working on issues related to the development of advanced naval assets. He was the scientific adviser of specialized projects at JSC Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering ‘Rubin’.

I. Spassky developed a range of fundamental principles that ensure both high efficiency and safe operation of submarines and their nuclear power plants; determined the optimal level of automation for submarine control; elaborated fundamentally new engineering methods for submarine construction that permit to reduce significantly construction time and cost while substantially improving their combat performances.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Igor Spassky; in the background: a drawing of a Project 658 submarine and an exterior view of a Project 941 Akula nuclear submarine.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Noginsk of the Moscow Region.


Design Artist: M. Podobed.
Face value: 85 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 104×144 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 56 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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