Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A Russian Empire postman First Russian stamp, 1857 1998 stamp of Russia dedicated to the World Stamp Day celebrated in conjunction with the World Post Day and in commemoration of the UPU foundation 35k "Sword Breaking Chain", 1918 250-ruble stamp of 1921, surcharged to 7,500 rubles in 1922 30r surcharge on 50k stamp A 1958 stamp of the Soviet Union depicting a 16th-century mail courier for the ...
The issue of Russian postage stamps is directly related to postage rates in force at given times during the history of the Russian postal service. Stamp denominations were applied to meet a public need to pay postage costs according to the current rates. Issuing values for the revenue generation was not a purpose of the state policy in this ...
Many stamps were reissued using the same design but with a modified denomination. For example, the face value of the stamp with the Golden Gate in Vladimir increased from 10 kopecks to 150 roubles, that is, by 1500 times. The maximum stamp denomination reached 5,000 roubles. [5] First stamps of the Russian Federation 1st definitive issue, 1992
The first stamp value of a 10-kopeck had to be used for letters weighing up to one lot (about 12.8 grams). This was followed on 10 January by 20-kopeck and 30-kopeck perforated stamps [ 4 ] [ 5 ] using the same design but in different pairs of colours, along with a perforated version of the 10-kopeck stamp.
Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription Russian: "Почта СССР" ("Post of the USSR"). In the thematics, Soviet stamps reflected to a large extent the history, politics, economics and culture of this world's first socialist state. [1]
The sheets contain 25 imperforate 100-ruble orange stamps depicting the Red Army soldier that appeared in the RSFSR 1922 Workers and Soldiers definitive issue.The twelfth stamp in the sheet has a denomination of 70 rubles, unlike all the others, which have a face value of 100 rubles.
It was modified and simplified from former stamp issues of the RSFSR. Representatives of the three main strata of the population, the Worker, the Peasant, and the Red Army Soldier, were depicted on the stamps. [1] [2] The Russian sculptor and artist-designer Ivan Shadr was the stamp design author. He worked on this project very conscientiously.
The decision was hence made to overprint all the 'Arms' stamps with the Russian initials 'DBP' meaning "Far Eastern Republic" (Russian: Дальне-Восточная Республика, romanized: Dalne-Vostochnaya Respublika), and to accept only overprinted stamps for franking within the F.E.R. The exact issue date remains uncertain ...