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Designed by Pyotr Vasilyev.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Stamps of the Soviet Union</b> were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">"Почта СССР"</span> ("Post of the <a href="/wiki/USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR">USSR</a>"). In the <a href="/wiki/Thematics" class="mw-redirect" title="Thematics">thematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> stamps reflected to a large extent the history, politics, economics and culture of this world's first <a href="/wiki/Socialist_state" title="Socialist state">socialist state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GSE_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GSE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notable designers of Soviet postage stamps were <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Dubasov" title="Ivan Dubasov">Ivan Dubasov</a> (who designed the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lenin_Mourning_issue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lenin Mourning issue (page does not exist)">Lenin Mourning issue</a>, the first stamps portraying <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> in 1924) and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vasily_Zavyalov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vasily Zavyalov (page does not exist)">Vasily Zavyalov</a>. By the mid-1970s, over 4,000 stamps came out in the USSR. In 1970, the <i><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_stamp_catalogue" title="Soviet Union stamp catalogue">Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR, 1918–1969</a></i> was published in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, the yearly supplements being produced afterwards. The history and design of Soviet postage stamps were elucidated in the annual publication <i><a href="/wiki/Kollektsioner" title="Kollektsioner">Soviet Collector</a></i> and the monthly magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Filateliya" title="Filateliya">Filateliya SSSR</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-GSE_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GSE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_stamps">First stamps</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: First stamps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/First_USSR_stamps" title="First USSR stamps">First USSR stamps</a></div> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamps</a> of the newly proclaimed <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Union of Soviet Socialist Republics</a> were designed by <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Pashkov" title="Georgy Pashkov">Georgy Pashkov</a> and issued in August 1923 in relation to the First All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition.<sup id="cite_ref-skandinav.eu_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skandinav.eu-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack"><div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerycaption">First All-Russia Agricultural Exhibition issue of 1923</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 134px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 132px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_(1st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition,_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Reaper, 1 rouble"><img alt="Reaper, 1 rouble" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf%29.jpg/198px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="132" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf%29.jpg/297px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_95_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Reaper_with_a_sickle_and_a_sheaf%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="346" data-file-height="524" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Reaper, 1 <a href="/wiki/Rouble" class="mw-redirect" title="Rouble">rouble</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 144px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 142px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_(1st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition,_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sower, 2 roubles"><img alt="Sower, 2 roubles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket%29.jpg/213px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="142" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket%29.jpg/320px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_96_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Sower_with_a_sowing_basket%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="359" data-file-height="505" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sower, 2 roubles</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 283.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_97_stamp_(1st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition,_Moscow._Ford_tractor_Fordson_Model_F).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tractor, 5 roubles"><img alt="Tractor, 5 roubles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_97_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Ford_tractor_Fordson_Model_F%29.jpg/425px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_97_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Ford_tractor_Fordson_Model_F%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="284" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_97_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._Ford_tractor_Fordson_Model_F%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="353" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Tractor, 5 roubles</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 177.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_(1st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition,_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Exhibition general view, 7 roubles"><img alt="Exhibition general view, 7 roubles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition%29.jpg/263px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="176" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition%29.jpg/395px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_98_stamp_%281st_agriculture_and_craftsmanship_exhibition%2C_Moscow._General_view_of_the_exhibition%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="492" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Exhibition general view,<br />7 roubles</div> </li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitive_issues">Definitive issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Definitive issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Definitive_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Definitive stamps of the Soviet Union">Definitive stamps of the Soviet Union</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99,_101,_104_stamps_(1st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg/290px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg/435px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg/580px-The_Soviet_Union_1923_CPA_99%2C_101%2C_104_stamps_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._Worker._Peasant._Red_Army_man%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="303" /></a><figcaption>Worker, Red Army soldier, and peasant, Gold Standard issue of 1923</figcaption></figure> <p>The first series of the USSR <a href="/wiki/Definitive_stamp" title="Definitive stamp">definitive stamps</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Standard_issue" title="Gold Standard issue">Gold Standard issue</a> appeared in October 1923. Their <a href="/wiki/Stamp_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Stamp design">design</a> proposed by <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Shadr" title="Ivan Shadr">Ivan Shadr</a> included the busts of the worker, <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> soldier and peasant.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-skandinav.eu_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skandinav.eu-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, there was a plan to sell more stamps in the international market. By targeting stamps for sales abroad, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet government">Soviet government</a> reckoned on earning hard currency.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Examples of 1929 stamps with face values of 7 and 14 kopecks</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Worker, soldier and peasant, 3rd definitive issue, 1929"><img alt="Worker, soldier and peasant, 3rd definitive issue, 1929" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg/86px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg/128px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg/171px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_319.jpg 2x" data-file-width="230" data-file-height="322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Worker, soldier and peasant,<br />3rd definitive issue, 1929</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lenin, 3rd definitive issue, 1929"><img alt="Lenin, 3rd definitive issue, 1929" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg/90px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg/136px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg/181px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_321.jpg 2x" data-file-width="242" data-file-height="321" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Lenin, 3rd definitive issue, 1929</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1st All-Union Pioneer Rally, 1929"><img alt="1st All-Union Pioneer Rally, 1929" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg/85px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg/128px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg/171px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_313.jpg 2x" data-file-width="317" data-file-height="445" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1st <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization">All-Union Pioneer</a> Rally, 1929</div> </li> </ul> <p>Over the years, there was a steady increase in the number of different stamps issued annually by the USSR.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Denomination_(postage_stamp)" title="Denomination (postage stamp)">Stamp denominations</a> continued including international <a href="/wiki/Soviet_and_post-Soviet_postage_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet and post-Soviet postage rates">postage rates</a>. For instance, most new issues during 1939 and 1940 had face values between 10 and 30 kopecks, i.e. more than those for standard internal <a href="/wiki/Postage" class="mw-redirect" title="Postage">postage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="position:relative; margin:0 auto; padding:0; text-align:center; width:-moz-fit-content;width:-webkit-fit-content;width:fit-content;"> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="perrow="> <li class="gallerycaption">Examples of 1939 stamps with face values of 10 and 30 kopecks</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_(Gorky_Avenue).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gorky Street, Moscow"><img alt="Gorky Street, Moscow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg/120px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg/180px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg/240px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_653_stamp_%28Gorky_Avenue%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2496" data-file-height="1747" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Gorky_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorky Street">Gorky Street</a>, Moscow</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_(Lenin_Library).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lenin Library, Moscow"><img alt="Lenin Library, Moscow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg/120px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg/180px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg/240px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_655_stamp_%28Lenin_Library%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2556" data-file-height="1776" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lenin_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Lenin Library">Lenin Library</a>, Moscow</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_(Marina_Raskova).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marina Raskova, flight Moscow—Far East"><img alt="Marina Raskova, flight Moscow—Far East" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg/85px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg/127px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg/170px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_661_stamp_%28Marina_Raskova%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="318" data-file-height="449" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Marina_Raskova" title="Marina Raskova">Marina Raskova</a>,<br />flight Moscow—<a href="/wiki/Far_East" title="Far East">Far East</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_(Statue_perf)_cancelled.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="USSR Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair"><img alt="USSR Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg/79px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg/119px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg/159px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_663_stamp_%28Statue_perf%29_cancelled.jpg 2x" data-file-width="362" data-file-height="546" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">USSR Pavilion at the<br /><a href="/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="1939 New York World's Fair">1939 New York World's Fair</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_(Factory_Woman).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Factory woman, 5th definitive issue"><img alt="Factory woman, 5th definitive issue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg/88px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg/132px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg/177px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_668_stamp_%28Factory_Woman%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="237" data-file-height="322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Factory woman, 5th definitive issue</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_(Last_Portrait).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="125th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko"><img alt="125th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg/86px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg/129px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg/173px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_674_stamp_%28Last_Portrait%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="417" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">125th birth anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko" title="Taras Shevchenko">Taras Shevchenko</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_(Dairy_Farming)_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dairy farming, milkmaid with prize cow, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition"><img alt="Dairy farming, milkmaid with prize cow, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg/86px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg/129px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg/172px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_676_stamp_%28Dairy_Farming%29_vert_raster_cancelled.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1251" data-file-height="1748" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Dairy farming, milkmaid with prize cow, <a href="/wiki/All-Union_Agricultural_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Union Agricultural Exhibition">All-Union Agricultural Exhibition</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_(Emblem).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem "Tractor Driver and Kolkhoz Woman", All-Union Agricultural Exhibition"><img alt="Emblem "Tractor Driver and Kolkhoz Woman", All-Union Agricultural Exhibition" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg/85px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg/128px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg/171px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_679_stamp_%28Emblem%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="319" data-file-height="447" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem "Tractor Driver and Kolkhoz Woman", All-Union Agricultural Exhibition</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_(Central_Pavilion).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Central Pavilion, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition"><img alt="Central Pavilion, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg/120px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg/180px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg/240px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_680_stamp_%28Central_Pavilion%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Central Pavilion, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_(Glider).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Glider, Soviet Aviation Day"><img alt="Glider, Soviet Aviation Day" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg/120px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg/180px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg/240px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_686_stamp_%28Glider%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Glider, Soviet Aviation Day</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_(Parachutists).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Parachutists, Soviet Aviation Day"><img alt="Parachutists, Soviet Aviation Day" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg/86px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg/129px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg/171px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_687_stamp_%28Parachutists%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="321" data-file-height="449" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Parachutists, Soviet Aviation Day</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_(Airman).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Airman, 6th definitive issue"><img alt="Airman, 6th definitive issue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg/86px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg/128px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg/171px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_695_stamp_%28Airman%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="458" data-file-height="641" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Airman, 6th definitive issue</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_(Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="50th death anniversary of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin"><img alt="50th death anniversary of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg/87px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="87" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg/130px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg/174px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_703_stamp_%28Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin_30k%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="321" data-file-height="443" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">50th death anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin" title="Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin">Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_(Sochi_30k).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sochi, Caucasian health resorts"><img alt="Sochi, Caucasian health resorts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg/120px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg/180px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg/240px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_710_stamp_%28Sochi_30k%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="317" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sochi" title="Sochi">Sochi</a>, Caucasian health resorts</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_(Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838)_cancelled.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="125th birth anniversary of Mikhail Lermontov"><img alt="125th birth anniversary of Mikhail Lermontov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg/88px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg/131px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg/175px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_715_stamp_%28Mikhail_Lermontov_in_1838%29_cancelled.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1287" data-file-height="1761" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">125th birth anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov" title="Mikhail Lermontov">Mikhail Lermontov</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_(Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="50th death anniversary of Nikolay Chernyshevsky"><img alt="50th death anniversary of Nikolay Chernyshevsky" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg/86px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg/130px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg/173px-The_Soviet_Union_1939_CPA_718_stamp_%28Nikolai_Chernyshevski_30k%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1281" data-file-height="1776" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">50th death anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky" title="Nikolay Chernyshevsky">Nikolay Chernyshevsky</a></div> </li> </ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerycaption">Examples of 1940 stamps with face values of 10 and 30 kopecks</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="80th birth anniversary of Anton Chekhov"><img alt="80th birth anniversary of Anton Chekhov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg/85px-Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg/127px-Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg/170px-Stamp_USSR_1940_A.P._Chekhov_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="446" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">80th birth anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" title="Anton Chekhov">Anton Chekhov</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="10th death anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky"><img alt="10th death anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg/120px-1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg/180px-1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg/240px-1940._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0._%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9._30_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="208" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">10th death anniversary<br />of <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky" title="Vladimir Mayakovsky">Vladimir Mayakovsky</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Icebreaker Georgy Sedov"><img alt="Icebreaker Georgy Sedov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg/120px-Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg/180px-Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg/240px-Soviet_Union_stamp_1940_CPA_730.jpg 2x" data-file-width="445" data-file-height="314" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Icebreaker_Georgy_Sedov" class="mw-redirect" title="Icebreaker Georgy Sedov">Icebreaker Georgy Sedov</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:FruzNE.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="20th anniversary of the Perekop operation"><img alt="20th anniversary of the Perekop operation" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/FruzNE.jpg/86px-FruzNE.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/FruzNE.jpg/129px-FruzNE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/FruzNE.jpg/172px-FruzNE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="322" data-file-height="449" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">20th anniversary of the<br /><a href="/wiki/Perekop" title="Perekop">Perekop</a> operation</div> </li> </ul> </div> <p>One of the important topics represented on the USSR stamps was the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>. It was usually done in two ways:<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>dedicating stamps to numerous remarkable Party members, both the living and the deceased,</li> <li>placing the Party <a href="/wiki/Slogan" title="Slogan">slogans</a> and resolutions.</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 163.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 161.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1949_CPA_1483_souvenir_sheet_of_4_golden_frame_(Stalin%27s_70th_Birthday._Stalin%27s_birthplace,_Gori,_Georgia._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Smolny,_1917._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Gorki._Stalin).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stalin souvenir sheet of 1949 celebrating the 70th birth anniversary of Joseph Stalin"><img alt="Stalin souvenir sheet of 1949 celebrating the 70th birth anniversary of Joseph Stalin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/The_Soviet_Union_1949_CPA_1483_souvenir_sheet_of_4_golden_frame_%28Stalin%27s_70th_Birthday._Stalin%27s_birthplace%2C_Gori%2C_Georgia._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Smolny%2C_1917._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Gorki._Stalin%29.jpg/242px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="162" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/The_Soviet_Union_1949_CPA_1483_souvenir_sheet_of_4_golden_frame_%28Stalin%27s_70th_Birthday._Stalin%27s_birthplace%2C_Gori%2C_Georgia._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Smolny%2C_1917._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Gorki._Stalin%29.jpg/363px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/The_Soviet_Union_1949_CPA_1483_souvenir_sheet_of_4_golden_frame_%28Stalin%27s_70th_Birthday._Stalin%27s_birthplace%2C_Gori%2C_Georgia._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Smolny%2C_1917._Lenin_and_Stalin_in_Gorki._Stalin%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="609" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Stalin souvenir sheet of 1949 celebrating the 70th birth anniversary of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 152px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_stamp_1941_Be_a_Hero.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Be a Hero!, the first USSR stamp dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, 1941"><img alt="Be a Hero!, the first USSR stamp dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, 1941" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Soviet_Union_stamp_1941_Be_a_Hero.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="205" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="183" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Be a Hero!, the first USSR stamp dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, 1941</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 294.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 292.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American fighting alliance! (Stalin)", a 1943 stamp marking the Tehran Conference"><img alt=""Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American fighting alliance! (Stalin)", a 1943 stamp marking the Tehran Conference" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg/439px-Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg" decoding="async" width="293" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg/660px-Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg/878px-Stamp_of_USSR_0879.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1752" data-file-height="1225" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American fighting alliance! (Stalin)", a 1943 stamp marking the <a href="/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a></div> </li> </ul> <p>Vladimir Lenin was pictured on Soviet stamps most often among the <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a>, with the first <a href="/wiki/Leniniana" title="Leniniana">Leniniana</a> stamps appeared after his death in January 1924. Lifetime images of Party members on stamps were used to emphasize the theme of state power. One of such examples was a 1935 set of stamps commemorating <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin" title="Mikhail Kalinin">Mikhail Kalinin</a>'s 60th birthday and depicting him as a worker, a farmer, and an orator. These Kalinin stamps illustrated the motive powers of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Government of the Soviet Union">Soviet state</a>: the worker, the farmer, and the Communist Party. Such a practice is considered a worldwide trend when in-power politicians are shown on postage stamps symbolizing the state.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Party slogans and resolutions on Soviet stamps changed over time. Earlier stamp themes in the 1920s reflected, though indirectly, the spirit of <a href="/wiki/New_Economic_Policy" title="New Economic Policy">New Economic Policy</a>. Since 1929, stamps had been used for a clear declaration of the changed economic policies. When <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> initiated <a href="/wiki/Industrialisation" title="Industrialisation">industrialisation</a>, a special set of stamps was issued to support this effort. For example, the 10-kopecks stamp showed a series of tractors, saying "Let us increase the harvest by 35%". An inscription on the 20-kopecks stamp called for "More metal, more machines!". The 28-kopecks stamp pictured a blast furnace, a chart for iron-ore production and the slogan "Iron, 8 million tons".<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Slogans of the Industrialisation issue, 1929</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 199.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 197.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""For the lower cost of goods sold, for work discipline, for the better quality of a product""><img alt=""For the lower cost of goods sold, for work discipline, for the better quality of a product"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg/296px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg" decoding="async" width="198" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg/444px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_347.jpg 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="319" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"For the lower cost of goods sold, for work discipline, for the better quality of a product"</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 198px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 196px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""Let us increase the harvest by 35%""><img alt=""Let us increase the harvest by 35%"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg/294px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg" decoding="async" width="196" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg/440px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_348.jpg 2x" data-file-width="447" data-file-height="320" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"Let us increase the harvest by 35%"</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 101.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 99.333333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""More metal, more machines!""><img alt=""More metal, more machines!"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg/149px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg/224px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg/299px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_349.jpg 2x" data-file-width="317" data-file-height="445" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"More metal, more machines!"</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 102px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 100px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""Iron, 8 million tons""><img alt=""Iron, 8 million tons"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg/150px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg/225px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg/300px-Stamp_Soviet_Union_1929_350.jpg 2x" data-file-width="317" data-file-height="444" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"Iron, 8 million tons"</div> </li> </ul> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Patriotic War">Great Patriotic War</a>, the government used stamps to call for <a href="/wiki/Economic_reconstruction" title="Economic reconstruction">economic reconstruction</a> and mobilisation. A 1946 stamp issue summoned: "Give the country annually 127 million tons of grain", "60 million tons of oil", "60 million tons of steel", "500 million tons of coal", and "50 million tons of cast iron".<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1946_CPA_1082_stamp_(Fourth_Five-Year_Plan._Give_the_country_each_year_127_million_tons_of_grain._Combine_harvester_and_wheat_sheaf)_large_resolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""Give the country annually 127 million tons of grain", 1946"><img alt=""Give the country annually 127 million tons of grain", 1946" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/The_Soviet_Union_1946_CPA_1082_stamp_%28Fourth_Five-Year_Plan._Give_the_country_each_year_127_million_tons_of_grain._Combine_harvester_and_wheat_sheaf%29_large_resolution.jpg/250px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/The_Soviet_Union_1946_CPA_1082_stamp_%28Fourth_Five-Year_Plan._Give_the_country_each_year_127_million_tons_of_grain._Combine_harvester_and_wheat_sheaf%29_large_resolution.jpg/375px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/The_Soviet_Union_1946_CPA_1082_stamp_%28Fourth_Five-Year_Plan._Give_the_country_each_year_127_million_tons_of_grain._Combine_harvester_and_wheat_sheaf%29_large_resolution.jpg/500px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1786" data-file-height="1256" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"Give the country annually 127 million tons of grain", 1946</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_(Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid,_etc.).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""By 1980 livestock, cattle and chickens will be significantly increased. Production of meat will grow almost 4 times, milk almost 3 times", 1962"><img alt=""By 1980 livestock, cattle and chickens will be significantly increased. Production of meat will grow almost 4 times, milk almost 3 times", 1962" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg/250px-The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg/375px-The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg/500px-The_Soviet_Union_1962_CPA_2779_stamp_%28Decisions_of_the_22nd_Communist_Party_Congress._Dairy-farming._Milkmaid%2C_etc.%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="632" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"By 1980 livestock, cattle and chickens will be significantly increased. Production of meat will grow almost 4 times,<br />milk almost 3 times", 1962</div> </li> </ul> <p>Short heroic slogans of the Stalin period calling for economic mobilization were substituted on Soviet stamps in the post-Stalin years. Party platforms with rather lengthy excerpts from Party documents and congresses' resolutions appeared on stamps at that time. Such was, for instance, the series of "Decisions of the <a href="/wiki/22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>—into Life" that was designed by Vasily Zavyalov and A. Shmidshtein, and issued in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In later years, the style of stamp messages continued, differing from those of the Stalin times. They were no longer brief imperative commands but rather promises and explanations by the Party to Soviet society. For example, on a 1971 <a href="/wiki/Souvenir_sheet" class="mw-redirect" title="Souvenir sheet">souvenir sheet</a> from the <a href="/wiki/24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th Party Congress</a> series designed by Yu. Levinovsky and A. Shmidshtein, there was an inscription saying that "the main problem is to provide a significant increase of the material and cultural level of life of the people on the basis of high rates of development of socialist production, an increase of its effectiveness, scientific-technical progress, and an acceleration of the growth of the productiveness of labor".<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Such messages were typical of stamps for the <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev</a> and post-Brezhnev period until the changes occurred under <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New slogans, "<a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">perestroika</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Uskoreniye" class="mw-redirect" title="Uskoreniye">uskoreniye</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Demokratizatsiya_(Soviet_Union)" title="Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)">demokratizatsiya</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">glasnost</a>", were coined and appeared on the postage stamps of the USSR. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; text-align:center"> <caption>Perestroyka issues of 1988 </caption> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center"> <td rowspan="2"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5957_souvenir_sheet_(19th_Communist_Party_Conference._State_Kremlin_Palace,_Troitskaya_Tower,_Lenin_(by_Andreev),_hammer_and_sickle_and_laurel_branch).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5957_souvenir_sheet_%2819th_Communist_Party_Conference._State_Kremlin_Palace%2C_Troitskaya_Tower%2C_Lenin_%28by_Andreev%29%2C_hammer_and_sickle_and_laurel_branch%29.jpg/290px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5957_souvenir_sheet_%2819th_Communist_Party_Conference._State_Kremlin_Palace%2C_Troitskaya_Tower%2C_Lenin_%28by_Andreev%29%2C_hammer_and_sickle_and_laurel_branch%29.jpg/435px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5957_souvenir_sheet_%2819th_Communist_Party_Conference._State_Kremlin_Palace%2C_Troitskaya_Tower%2C_Lenin_%28by_Andreev%29%2C_hammer_and_sickle_and_laurel_branch%29.jpg/580px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2370" data-file-height="1581" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5941_stamp_(Perestroika_(reformation)._Workers_and_slogans_Speeding_Up,_Democratization._and_Glasnost_against_Kremlin_Palace._Cruiser_Aurora_and_revolutionary_soldiers).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5941_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Workers_and_slogans_Speeding_Up%2C_Democratization._and_Glasnost_against_Kremlin_Palace._Cruiser_Aurora_and_revolutionary_soldiers%29.jpg/290px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5941_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Workers_and_slogans_Speeding_Up%2C_Democratization._and_Glasnost_against_Kremlin_Palace._Cruiser_Aurora_and_revolutionary_soldiers%29.jpg/435px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5941_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Workers_and_slogans_Speeding_Up%2C_Democratization._and_Glasnost_against_Kremlin_Palace._Cruiser_Aurora_and_revolutionary_soldiers%29.jpg/580px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1324" data-file-height="632" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_(Perestroika_(reformation)._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg/290px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg/435px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg/580px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5942_stamp_%28Perestroika_%28reformation%29._Worker._Industries_and_agriculture%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1320" data-file-height="636" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Soviet Union was a sport powerhouse</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 246.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 244.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR"><img alt="1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg/367px-Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg" decoding="async" width="245" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg/550px-Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg/733px-Stamp_of_USSR_1918.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2067" data-file-height="1439" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1956 <a href="/wiki/Spartakiad_of_Peoples_of_the_USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR">Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 242.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 240.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow"><img alt="1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg/361px-1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg" decoding="async" width="241" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg/543px-1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg/722px-1980._XXII_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B._%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2097" data-file-height="1481" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics" title="1980 Summer Olympics">1980 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 252px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1981 Bandy World Championship in Khabarovsk"><img alt="1981 Bandy World Championship in Khabarovsk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/375px-1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/563px-1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/750px-1981._%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%8E_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1978" data-file-height="1345" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/1981_Bandy_World_Championship" title="1981 Bandy World Championship">1981 Bandy World Championship</a> in <a href="/wiki/Khabarovsk" title="Khabarovsk">Khabarovsk</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 478px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 476px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_(1988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink,_Medeo).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1988 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men in Alma-Ata (now "Almaty")"><img alt="1988 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men in Alma-Ata (now "Almaty")" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg/714px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="476" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg/1072px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg/1427px-The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_5923_stamp_with_label_%281988_World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men._Skater._Emblem._Alma-Ata_ice_rink%2C_Medeo%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1902" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1988 <a href="/wiki/World_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men" title="World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men">World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men</a> in <a href="/wiki/Alma-Ata" class="mw-redirect" title="Alma-Ata">Alma-Ata</a> (now "Almaty")</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rarities">Rarities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rarities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg/290px-Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="322" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg/435px-Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg/580px-Soviet_Union_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged_1924_pane_of_25.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1774" data-file-height="1967" /></a><figcaption><i>Soviet Air Post "Wide 5" surcharged</i>, a unique pane of 25 USSR airmail stamps, 1924</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg/290px-Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg/435px-Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg/580px-Soviet_Union_miniature_sheet_All-Soviet_Philatelic_Exhibition_1932_Personalised_Kartonka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2060" data-file-height="1444" /></a><figcaption><i>Personalised Kartonka</i> "All-Soviet Philatelic Exhibition", 1932. Designed by Vasily Zavyalov</figcaption></figure> <p>A unique complete pane of 25 early Soviet Union stamps is known as <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Soviet_Air_Post_%22Wide_5%22_surcharged&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Soviet Air Post "Wide 5" surcharged (page does not exist)">Soviet Air Post "Wide 5" surcharged</a></i>. The stamp itself was produced in 1924 as a surcharge of 10 kopecks on 5-rouble green type II, basic stamp wide "5".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1925, a 15-kopeck yellow stamp of "Peasant" design was printed in a very small quantity within the Gold Standard issue. Named <i>Limonka</i>, it is considered very rare, especially if in mint condition.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_(1st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Limonka, 1925, 15 kopecks"><img alt="Limonka, 1925, 15 kopecks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg/135px-The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg/202px-The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg/269px-The_Soviet_Union_1925_CPA_136_stamp_%281st_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._3rd_issue._Peasant%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="585" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Limonka</i>, 1925,<br />15 kopecks</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 231.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 229.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:USSR_stamp_Aspidka_1931_50k.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Aspidka, 1931, 50 kopecks, perforated"><img alt="Aspidka, 1931, 50 kopecks, perforated" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/USSR_stamp_Aspidka_1931_50k.jpg/344px-USSR_stamp_Aspidka_1931_50k.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/USSR_stamp_Aspidka_1931_50k.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="452" data-file-height="237" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Aspidka</i>, 1931, 50 kopecks, perforated</div> </li> </ul> <p>Another very rare Soviet stamp, issued in 1931, is <i>Aspidka</i>, especially if imperforate; 24 imperforate specimens are known. Its design was created by Vasily Zavyalov.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1932, the All-Soviet Philatelic Exhibition was organized in Moscow. On that occasion, a souvenir sheet of four stamps known as <i>Personalised Kartonka</i> was produced on thick card, with three-line overprint "To the best shock worker of the All Russian Philatelic Society – President of the Moscow Philatelic Organization E.M. Nurk". It is considered rare because only 25 souvenir sheets were issued.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Overprint" title="Overprint"><i>San Francisco</i> inverted surcharge</a> with small Cyrillic "ф" ("f") is characteristic of a rare Soviet stamp called <i>Levanevsky with overprint</i>. Possibly unique, it was designed by Vasily Zavyalov and issued in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 78px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 76px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_of_USSR_514(t).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Levanevsky with overprint, 1935, 1 rouble on 10 kopecks"><img alt="Levanevsky with overprint, 1935, 1 rouble on 10 kopecks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg/114px-Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="76" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg/172px-Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg/229px-Stamp_of_USSR_514%28t%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="396" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Levanevsky with overprint</i>, 1935, 1 rouble on 10 kopecks</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 154.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 152.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_(1964_Summer_Olympics,_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium)_small_resolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Green souvenir sheet, 1964, 1 rouble"><img alt="Green souvenir sheet, 1964, 1 rouble" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_small_resolution.jpg/229px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_small_resolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="153" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_small_resolution.jpg/343px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_small_resolution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085I_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_small_resolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="354" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Green souvenir sheet</i>, 1964, 1 rouble</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 173.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_(1964_Summer_Olympics,_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium)_large_resolution_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Russian Tokyo 1964. Trial edition - Goznak factory"><img alt="Russian Tokyo 1964. Trial edition - Goznak factory" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg/260px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="174" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg/389px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg/519px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3085_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3792" data-file-height="2632" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Russian Tokyo 1964. Trial edition - Goznak factory</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 148px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 146px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_(1964_Summer_Olympics,_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium)_large_resolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="tokyo olympiad 1964 attempt to colour red embossed sign goznak"><img alt="tokyo olympiad 1964 attempt to colour red embossed sign goznak" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg/219px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="146" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg/329px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg/439px-The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3086_proof_souvenir_sheet_%281964_Summer_Olympics%2C_Tokyo._Woman_gymnast_and_stadium%29_large_resolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3236" data-file-height="2656" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">tokyo olympiad 1964 attempt to colour red embossed sign goznak</div> </li> </ul> <p>Due to a plate error (asymmetric star), a variety of the first Soviet numbered Tokyo Olympic souvenir sheet of 1964 is now quite rare and known as <i>Green souvenir sheet</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Russian Goznak stamp factory has released several sheets of the Tokyo 1964 trial stamps, they are very rare and there are few left.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stamp_thematics_and_other_aspects">Stamp thematics and other aspects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Stamp thematics and other aspects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg/290px-Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg/435px-Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Rus_Stamp_GST-Kalinin_1935-Serie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="190" /></a><figcaption>60th birth anniversary of Mikhail Kalinin, 1935. Designed by Vasily Zavyalov.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_(Workers_March_with_Flag,_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg/290px-The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg/435px-The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg/580px-The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4051_sheet_of_1_%28Workers_March_with_Flag%2C_the_Kremlin_Palace_of_Congresses_and_the_Spasskaya_Tower%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2156" data-file-height="1613" /></a><figcaption>Workers march with flag, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses and the Spasskaya Tower.<br />The 24th Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress resolutions. <a href="/wiki/Miniature_sheet" title="Miniature sheet">Miniature sheet</a> of 1971</figcaption></figure> <p>Soviet Union stamps covered a great variety of themes. The thematics mirrored various aspects of Soviet history, politics, economics, and culture. These included: </p> <ul><li>the accomplishments of the <a href="/wiki/Great_October_Socialist_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Great October Socialist Revolution">Great October Socialist Revolution</a>,</li> <li>achievements of industry, agriculture, science, and culture,</li> <li>various anniversary celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-GSE_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GSE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>After 1929, the quality of the Soviet stamps improved. Their <a href="/wiki/Political_demonstration" title="Political demonstration">agitational</a> content expanded, as well. Increasing attention was given to stamps with <a href="/wiki/Face_value" title="Face value">face values</a> of 7, 14, and 28 <a href="/wiki/Kopeck" title="Kopeck">kopecks</a> used for international correspondence.<sup id="cite_ref-Grant_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grant-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These stamps were "supposed to tell the truth to the world about the victories of the workers' country of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet">Soviets</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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issue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_trading_tax_stamp" title="International trading tax stamp">International trading tax stamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leniniana" title="Leniniana">Leniniana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_paintings_on_Soviet_postage_stamps" title="List of paintings on Soviet postage stamps">List of paintings on Soviet postage stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_postage_stamps" title="List of postage stamps">List of postage stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Russia" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Russia">Postage stamps and postal history of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_and_post-Soviet_postage_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet and post-Soviet postage rates">Soviet and post-Soviet postage rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_space_exploration_history_on_Soviet_stamps" title="Soviet space exploration history on Soviet stamps">Soviet space exploration history on Soviet stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_stamp_catalogue" title="Soviet Union stamp catalogue">Soviet Union stamp catalogue</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Postage_stamps_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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postal history of France">France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_the_French_colonies" title="Postage stamps of the French colonies">French colonies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Funchal" class="mw-redirect" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Funchal">Funchal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Georgia" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Germany" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Germany">Germany</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_German_colonies" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies">German colonies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Gibraltar" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Great_Britain" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain">Great Britain</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Country_definitives" title="Country definitives">GB regions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Greece" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Greece">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Greenland" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Greenland">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Guernsey" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Heligoland" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Heligoland">Heligoland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Hungary" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Hungary">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Iceland" title="Postage stamps and postal history of 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href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Montenegro" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Mount_Athos" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Mount Athos">Mount Athos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Netherlands" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Northern_Cyprus" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Northern Cyprus">Northern Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Northern_Epirus" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Northern Epirus">Northern Epirus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_North_Ingria" title="Postage stamps and postal history of North Ingria">North Ingria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_North_Macedonia" title="Postage stamps and postal history of North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Norway" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Norway">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Turkey" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Turkey">Ottoman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Poland" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Portugal" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Portugal">Portugal</a> (<a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Azores" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the Azores">Azores</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Madeira" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Madeira">Madeira</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Romania" title="Postage stamps and postal history of 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