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First Day Cover (FDC) of the USSR; 1991; commemorative issue to the "International Stamp Exhibition "Ad Astra '91""; envelope with USSR block issue from 06 Apr 1991 to the Cosmonautics Day 1991 (= 12 April 1991); commemorative postmark and cover picture with the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal, award for Astronautics, from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale; First Day postmarked; imperforate block stamps
Stamp: Michel, block No. 219 (= block 218 with overprint on coated paper); ZFA: No. 6311; Block with 4 single stamps Michel No. 6185-6188, Yvert & Tellier: No. 5844-5847; AFA No. 6114-6117
Overprint' (on the block, right, bottom, vertically, 3 lines): "международная выставка / «К ЗВЁЗДАМ - 91» / космос на смужбе мира и прогресса" (=Russian for "International exhibition / To the stars - 91 / The cosmos in the service of the world and the progress"
 FDC: cover No. 1149 from 26 Dec 1990 ("1991, 3, 2259") (both imprints on the revers)
 Nominal value: 4 x 25 K (Kopeks) = 1 (Rubel) (sold + 5 Kopeks for cover)
Block size: 850 x 1100 mm
Block stamps size: 32.5 x 32.5 mm

Postage validity: from 6 April 1991 until 1992
date QS:P,+1991-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1991-04-06T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1992-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

(The former USSR was dissolved on the 21st of December, 1991 officially, but the first stamp issue of the core and succession state "Russia" was issued firstly on the 10th of January 1992. For a certain transition period (local differently) were the old stamps of the USSR postal valid furthermore.)
Date (first issue day of the stamps (block)
Source scan of original
Author Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the USSR
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  • The single block (Michel Block 219)
    The single block (Michel Block 219)
Picture description Block: Block issue to the Cosmonautics Day 1991 with overprint; block stamps: 4 different portraits of Yuri Gagarin; block inscription: "30th anniversary of the first world flight of an human in the cosmos" (in Russian language, left over stamps; beside); monument drawing of a flying human with the first satellite "Sputnik" in the right hand; insription (vertically, right, upper, single line): "«12th of April, Day of the Cosmonauts»" (in Russian language)

Cover picture: Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal, award for Astronautics, from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale under light blue, 4 lines inscription "30th anniversary / of thr First world flight / of an human / in the cosmos" (in Russian language); before red tape with white inscription "12th of April" (left) and "Day of the cosmonauts" (right) (in Russian language); dark golden medal with light blue, rectangle background (35 x 32 mm) with vertical light blue - white topwards color gradient; all over calligraphic inscription "Первый день - Premier Jour"

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Publisher Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the USSR
Design German Komlev (stamps, block, postmark, envelope)
Printer "MT Гознака" (= MPF Goznak), (Moscow)
Printing technique Offset printing
Circulation 600,000 (blocks)

2,500,000 (stamps)

Perforation none (imperforate on block)
MICHEL Nr. Sowjetunion, Block 219 (mit Einzelmarken Nr. 6185-6188)

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