File:USSR 1991 FDC MiBl0219 B002.jpg
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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 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.) |
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Author | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the USSR | |||||
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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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