On January 30, 2024 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue the postage stamp “Year of the Dragon” of the series “Oriental calendar”.
A series continuation. Beginning Nos. 1056, 1337, 1405, 1450, 1491. Artist: Viktar Chaichuk. Design: Yauheniya Biadonik. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 12. Stamp size: 28х35 mm. Sheet composition: 6 (3x2) stamps. Sheet size: 103x90 mm. The technology of thermal stamping by metalized foil of golden colour was used on the stamp and stamp margins. Print quantity: 36.000 stamps.
Printer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A.T. Nepogodin”.
Year of the Dragon. Catalog number: 1562
Element of protection
Letter “P” is equal to the air-mail tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.
The postage stamp “Year of the Dragon” continues the series of issues on the “Oriental calendar” theme.
The Oriental (Chinese) calendar is based on a 12-year lunar cycle, in which each year passes under the sign of one animal.
The New Year according to the Oriental calendar falls on different dates between January 21 and February 20.
2024 is the year of the Green Wood Dragon, which will come on February 10, 2024 and will last until January 28, 2025.
The project was prepared in cooperation with the Republican Confucius Institute of Sinology of the Belarusian State University.
Colour of the postmark – red.
Special postmark and FDC painted by V. Chaichuk, designed by Ya. Biadonik.
A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out at the Main Post Office of Minsk on the stamp issuing day.