On June 30, 2023 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue 2 stamps of the series “Water transport of Belarus“.
Design: Yelena Medved. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 13. Stamps size: 52х29,6 mm. Sheets composition: 6 (3х2) stamps. Sheets size: 177х83 mm. Face value of each stamp: A. Print quantity: 36 000 stamps each.
The stamps were printed at the State Enterprise “Belarusian Printing House Publishing Co.”.
Pusher tug of project 570V. Catalog number: 1507
Elements of protection
Cruise ship "Belaya Rus". Catalog number: 1508
Elements of protection
A sheetlet is also issued. Sheetlet composition: 4 (2 sets) stamps. Sheetlet size: 124х98 mm. Print quantity: 12.000 sheetlets.
Water transport of Belarus (1507, 1508). Catalog number: 10001507
Face value A is equal to the tariff of a letter up to 20 gram within Belarus.
The issue "Water transport of Belarus" is represented by two postage stamps.
Stamp No. 1507 shows pusher tug of project 570V, which was built in 1989 in Gomel. It was designed for towing and pushing non-self-propelled vessels (barges and platform barges).
Stamp No. 1508 shows the cruise ship "Belaya Rus" of project 1168, which was built in 2017 at the Pinsk order of the Badge of Honor shipbuilding and ship repair plant. This is the first and so far the only cruise ship in the Republic of Belarus. During the navigation period, it carries out river cruises from
Brest to Mozyr along the Dnepr-Bug Canal and the rivers Bug, Muhavec, Pina, Pripjat.
First Day Cover presents the landing stage DZh-03 of project 838, used as a river-boat station in Pinsk. The landing stage is a landmark of Pinsk.
The project was prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus.
Colour of the postmark – blue.
Special postmark and FDC designed by Ye. Medved.
A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out on the stamp issuing day at the post office No.16 of Pinsk, Brest region.
2 maximum cards “Water transport of Belarus” will be issued too. Design: Ye. Medved.
