On July 1, 2025 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue 2 stamps and a souvenir sheet of the series “Machine building of Belarus”.
Design: Yauheniya Biadonik. Photo: Artsemi Shyshko, Mikhail Maliutsin, Aare Olander. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 12. Stamps size: 40х28 mm. Sheets composition: 6 (3х2) stamps. Sheets size: 140х76 mm. Face value of each stamp: N. Print quantity: 18.000 stamps each.
Printer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A.T. Nepogodin”.
Tram T811. BKM Holding, 2023. Catalog number: 1630
Element of protection
Trolleybus 43300D. BKM Holding, 2019. Catalog number: 1631
Element of protection
Stamps Nos.1630, 1631 were also printed in a souvenir sheet. Design: Ya. Biadonik. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 12. Souvenir sheet size: 150х62mm. Print quantity: 7.000 souvenir sheets.
Souvenir sheet No. 171 (stamps Nos. 1630, 1631)
Machine building of Belarus (1630, 1631). Catalog number: 10001630
Face value N is equal to the surface tariff of a postcard abroad.
The issue of the series “Machine building of Belarus” is presented by two postage stamps and a souvenir sheet, which demonstrate public electric transport produced by BKM Holding (known as Belkommunmash).
Stamp No. 1630 depicts a single-section, fully low-floor tram car T811, which has the first level of unmanned control, which implies the presence of driver assistance systems. Serial production since 2023.
Stamp No. 1631 shows a low-floor articulated trolleybus 43300D of the Vitovt series. First delivered to Viciebsk in 2019. Externally, it is practically no different from the E433 electric buses (they operate on route No. 1 in Minsk). It has an increased autonomous running of up to 20 km.
Stamps 1630, 1631 are also printed in the souvenir sheet. On the margins of the souvenir sheet - the first Belarusian tram 1M and the first Belarusian trolleybus model 101.
The First Day Cover shows the building of the Belkommunmash holding in Minsk and passenger transport: tram, trolleybus, electric bus.
The project was prepared in cooperation with the Open Joint Stock Company "Management Company of the Belkommunmash holding".
Colour of the postmark – black.
Special postmarks and FDC designed by Ya. Biadonik.
Special cancellation on FDC will be carried out on the stamps and souvenir sheet issuing day at the Main Post Office of Minsk (the Postal Shop).