On July 3, a postage stamp dedicated to the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (overprint on stamp No. 2107 Traffic Safety, 2016) was put into postal circulation

The State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the NKVD of the USSR was established on July 3, 1936. By 1940, a single form of a driver's license was designed for the whole country, as well as rules for accounting and technical inspection of vehicles.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the emergence of new mass-market passenger car models, the traffic police (GAI) began to establish separate divisions for the road patrol service, vehicle registration, technical inspection, and administrations of driver’s license exams. In 1998, the GAI was renamed the GIBDD, and in 2002, the names GIBDD and GAI became interchangeable.

Currently, road safety issues are handled in Russia by the Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate).

The postage stamp features an image illustrating the issue of child safety in vehicles, as well as a surcharge of the new denomination “35 rubles” on the stamp and the text in the margins: “State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. GAI. GIBDD. 1936–2026.”

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


Design Artist: S. Ulyanovsky (stamp); Design: V. Zatologina (stamp sheet margins), M. Miloradova (overprint).
Face value:35 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×131 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 79.2 thousand stamps (8.8 thousand sheets).

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