On September 25, four postage stamps dedicated to monuments of Kursk were put into postal circulation in the Contemporary Art of Russia series

A sculptural composition dedicated to Kursk writer Arkady Gaidar and the Timur young volunteers team was unveiled in Kursk in 2025 to celebrate the 85th Anniversary of the release of the film Timur and His Team. It was created by Salavat Shcherbakov, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. Arkady Gaidar laid the foundations of the Timur movement in Russia, inspired thousands of boys and girls to be merciful and help other people.

A bronze sculpture of Kolobok (a Roly-Poly), created for park improvement in Kursk, was designed by Vasily Tsereteli, the President of the Russian Academy of Arts, and artist Evgeniy Teterin. In 2025, Kolobok became the central figure of the Pioneer Park in Kursk. It has every right to be considered one of the symbols of the region, because it has Kursk roots. In 1844, a book by the Kursk writer Ekaterina Avdeeva was published entitled Russian Fairy Tales for Children, with one of them being Kolobok.

In 2005, a monument to the great Russian composer Georgy Sviridov was unveiled in Lenin Street in Kursk. It was made by Kursk masters Nikolai Krivolapov and Igor Minin. The future great composer was born on December 3 of 1915 in the city of Fatezh, but already in 1924, the family moved to Kursk.

The monument To the Sons of the Regiments was unveiled in 2022 near the building of the N. Aseev Regional Scientific Library. The monument was installed by virtue of the Russian Military Historical Society. The author of the monument is Mikhail Baskakov. The monument shows a touching image of a boy, the son of a regiment, a young defender of the Motherland in a military uniform.

The postage stamps feature the following: the monument to Arkady Gaidar and Timur young volunteers; the Kolobok sculpture; the monument to G. Sviridov and the monument To the Sons of the Regiments installed in the city of Kursk.

The postage stamps were produced using the Augmented Reality Technology.

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


Design Artists: A. Povarikhin and M. Bodrova.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp sizes: 50×37 mm, 50×50 mm, 32.5×65 mm; sheet sizes: 120×136 mm, 170×126 mm, 117×157 mm.
Emission form: sheets with formatted margins with 6 (3×2) and 6 (2×3) stamps.
Quantity: 42 thousand each stamp (7 thousand each sheet).

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