On May 20, 2022 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue 2 postage stamps “Service dogs of the Border Guard Service of Belarus”.
A series continuation “Service dogs”. Beginning Nos. 1432, 1433. Design: Marina Vitkovskaya. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 12. Stamp size: 40х28 mm. Sheets composition: 6 (2х3) stamps. Sheets size: 101х105 mm. Face value of each stamp: Р. Print quantity: 30.000 stamps each.
Printer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A.T.Nepogodin”.
Service dogs of the Border Guard Service of Belarus. Catalog number: 1459
Element of protection
Service dogs of the Border Guard Service of Belarus. Catalog number: 1460
Element of protection
A sheetlet is also issued. Sheetlet composition: 4 (2 sets) stamps & 2 coupons. Sheetlet size: 101х105 mm. Print quantity: 10.000 sheetlets.
Service dogs of the Border Guard Service of Belarus (1459, 1460). Catalog number: 10001459
Face value P is equal to the air-mail tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.
The personnel of the border guard service of Belarus continues the glorious traditions of previous generations of border guards and reliably ensures the border security of our country.
Border guard service receive modern technical equipment. However, service dogs remain unsurpassed and indispensable assistants in the protection of external borders.
Keen sense of smell, courage and endurance are the qualities that service dogs of the border guard service of Belarus possess.
The project was prepared in cooperation with the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
The basis of the stamps and on the coupons of the sheetlet are photos of I.Sergeev, V.Baikovsky, M.But-Gusaim, I.Yarivanovich, S.Karzhitsky, A.Pylinsky, as well as from the archive of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
Colour of the postmark – black.
Special postmarks and FDC designed by M.Vitkovskaya.
Photo by S.Karzhitsky.
Special cancellations FDC will be carried out on the stamps issuing day at the Main Post Office of Minsk and post office No.2 Smorgon, Grodno region.