Александр Старостенко Thursday, February 19, 2015

70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Newsletter # 06 (609) March 04, 2015

On March 10, 2015 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue a stamp and a souvenir sheet of the series “70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War”.

The stamp and souvenir sheet were printed at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A. T.  Nepogodin”.

Designer of the stamps: Tatyana Kuznetsova. Printing: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 14: 141/4. Size of the stamps: 40x28 mm. Sheet composition: 8 stamps & 1 coupon. Size of the sheets: 139x113 mm.

Print quantity: 56.000 stamps.

Letter “H” is equal to the surface tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.

No. 1057

70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Soldiers of a special battalion at the Victory Parade
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Designer of the souvenir sheet: Tatyana Kuznetsova. Printing: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 14: 141/4. There are 2 stamps in the souvenir sheet. Size of the stamps: 40x28 mm. Size of the souvenir sheet: 95x93 mm. While printing the souvenir sheet they used the technology of relief stamping and selective varnishing. Print quantity: 15.000 souvenir sheets.

Letter “P” is equal to the air-mail tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.

Souvenir sheet No. 109

No. 1058

Soldiers of the 3rd Belarusian Front saluting in honour of the Victory
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No. 1059

Soviet soldiers in the streets of Berlin. May 9, 1945
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n commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War the Executive Committee of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications (RCC) provided the emblem which is used on the coupon of the stamp sheet, on the souvenir sheet borders and on the both FDCs.

The project is prepared in cooperation with the Belarusian State museum of the Great Patriotic War.

Colour of the postmark — red.

Special postmark and FDCs designed by T.Kuznetsova.

Special cancellation on FDCs will be carried out at the Main Post Office in Minsk on the stamp and souvenir sheet issuing day.


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