Russia (known as the Russian Federation) is the largest country in the world, covering more than 1/8 of the earth’s inhabited land area. Its capital is Moscow. It covers eleven time zones, and has borders with many countries including Norway, Finland, China, Mongolia and North Korea. The other countries bordering the country were part of the Soviet Union before 1991 and together with the Russian Federation became independent in 1991. They are Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. From 1922 – 1990, the country was known as the USSR.
The first stamps were issued in 1857. Russia was one of the founding members of the Universal Postal Union. When inflation was rife in the 1920’s the postage rate ranged from 1 – 10 – 100000 rubles. In 1922 this changed due to currency reform and the values were reduced to between 5r and 200r. From 1922 – 1991, the stamps bore the inscription of “POST OF THE USSR” (in cyrillic and Latin script). After 1991, stamps were issued in the name of the Russian Federation (using cyrillic and Latin script).
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1889
Arms Series
SG # 19b
Used (Hinged)
SG # 20
Used (Hinged)
1875
Arms Series
SG # 31
Used (Hinged)
SG # 32
Used (Hinged)
1889
Arms with Posthorns Series (With Thunderbolts)
SG # 50
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 51a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 52
Used (Hinged)
SG # 53
Used (Hinged)
SG # 55
Used (Hinged)
SG # 56
Used (Hinged)
SG # 114
Used (Hinged)
SG # 100
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 116
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 102
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 119
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 121a
Unused (Hinged)
1906
Arms with Posthorns (With Thunderbolts)
SG # 107
Used (Hinged)
SG # 93
Unused (NH)
SG # 94
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 95
Unused (NH)
SG # 96
Unused (NH)
SG # 97
Used (Hinged)
SG # 98a
Unused (Hinged)
1913
Tercentenary of Romanov Dynasty Series
SG # 126
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 127
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 128
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 129
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 130
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 131
Used (Hinged)
SG # 132
Used (Hinged)
1914
War Charity Series
SG # 143
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 144
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 145
Unused (Hinged)
1915
War Charity Series (As 1914, Colours Changed)
SG # 155
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 156
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 158
Unused (Hinged)
1916
Various Frames (Surcharged)
SG # 168
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 170
Unused (Hinged)
1917
Cutting the Fetters Series
SG # 187
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 188
Unused (Hinged)
1920
Stamps of the Province of Belarus (Ordered by Military Administration – never issued)
Unused
Unused
Unused
Unused
Unused
1921
Various Scenes Series (Imperforate)
SG # 199a
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 214
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 215
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 216
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 217
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 219
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 257
Used (Hinged)
4th Anniversary of October Revolution Series (Imperforate)
SG # 227
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 228
Unused (Hinged)
1922
Various Scenes Series of 1921 (Surcharged)
SG # 250
Unused (Hinged)
Famine Relief Series (Surcharged)
SG # 247
Unused (Hinged)
5th Anniversary of October Revolution Series (Imperforate)
SG # 279
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 280
Unused (Hinged)
Famine Relief Series (Imperforate)
SG # 287
Unused (Hinged)
Arms Series of 1883 and 1889 (Surcharged)
SG # 289
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 292a
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 293
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 294
Unused (NH)
SG # 295
Used (Hinged)
Various Scenes Series (Perforate and Imperforate)
SG # 303
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 304
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 305
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 310
Unused (Hinged)
1923
Various People Series
SG # 320
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 321
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 322
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 323
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 324
Unused (Hinged)
1925
Various People Series
SG # 364
Used (Hinged)
SG # 445
Used (Hinged)
1927
Various Scenes Series
SG # 511
Used (Hinged)
1929
1st All-Union Gathering of Pioneers Series
SG # 539
Used (Hinged)
Various People Series
SG # 541
Used (Hinged)
SG # 543
Used (Hinged)
SG # 544
Used (Hinged)
SG # 545
Used (Hinged)
SG # 847a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 547
Used (Hinged)
SG # 727f
Used (Hinged)
SG # 548
Used (Hinged)
SG # 549
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2252a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2252b
Used (Hinged)
SG # 847d
Unused (Hinged)
SG # 847f
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2253
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2253a
Used (NH)
1938
Paris International Exhibition Series
SG # 765
Used (Hinged)
1939
Caucasian Health Resorts Series
SG # 876
Used (Hinged)
1942
Russian Heroes – 1st Series
SG # 988
Used (Hinged)
1943
25th Anniversary of Young Communist League Series
SG # 1033
Used (Hinged)
1946
Air Series
SG # 1167
Used (Hinged)
Sports Festival Series
SG # 1193
Used (Hinged)
1947
110th Death Anniversary of Alexander Pushkin Series – Poet
SG # 1262
Used (Hinged)
800th Anniversary of Moscow (2nd issue)
SG # 1286
Used (Hinged)
SG # 1287
Used (Hinged)
Spassky Tower Kremlin Series
SG # 1329a
Used (NH)
1948
Various Frames Series
SG # 1361i
Used (Hinged)
SG # 1357
Used (NH)
SG # 1361ka
Used (Hinged)
SG # 1361L
Used (Hinged)
SG # 1361n
Used (Hinged)
Sports Series
SG # 1395
Used (Hinged)
30th Anniversary of Lenin’s Young Communist League Series
SG # 1431
Used (NH)
Death Centenary of Stasov Series – architect
SG # 1443
Used (NH)
1949
National Sports Series
SG # 1499
Used (Hinged)
Air Series – Aerial views
SG # 1543
Used (Hinged)
National Sports Series
SG # 1549
Used
1952
Winter Sports Series
SG # 1751
Used (NH)
SG # 1752
Used (NH)
War Orders and Medals (7th Series)
SG # 1778
Used (Hinged)
30th Death Anniversary of Lenin Series
SG # 1831
Used (Hinged)
1955
85th Birth Anniversary of Lenin Series
SG # 1890
Used (Hinged)
SG # 1891
Used (Hinged)
Air Series
SG # 1894
Used (NH)
1956
150th Birth Anniversary of Ivanov Series – painter
SG # 2009
Used (NH)
1957
Russian Wildlife Series
SG # 2058a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2059a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2059b
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2063a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2063b
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2063d
Used (Hinged)
Regional Handcrafts Series
SG # 2067a
Used (NH)
SG # 2067b
Used (Hinged)
Birth Centenary of Piekhanov Series – politician
SG # 2068
Used (NH)
300th Death Anniversary of Dr William Harvey Series – discoverer of circulation of blood
SG # 2074
Used (Hinged)
6th World Youth Festival – Moscow – 2nd Series
SG # 2084
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2084a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2086
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2087
Used (Hinged)
International Geophysical Year (1st issue)
SG # 2095a
Used (Hinged)
International Correspondence Week Series
SG # 2122
Used (Hinged)
1958
Centenary of 1st Russian Postage Stamp Series
SG # 2242
Used (Hinged)
Republican Capitals Series
SG # 2260
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2263
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2268
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2269
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2270
Used (NH)
SG # 2272
Used (Hinged)
10th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights Series
SG # 2287
Used (Hinged)
Kuan Han-Ching Series – Chinese playwright
SG # 2289
Used (Hinged)
All-Union Industrial Exhibition Series
SG # 2298
Used (NH)
1959
Women’s World Ice Skating Championships Series – Sverdlovsk
SG # 2304
Used (NH)
SG # 2305
Used (NH)
Writers Series
SG # 2320
Used (Hinged)
Russian Liners Series
SG # 2326
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2329
Used (Hinged)
90th Birth Anniversary of Marcel Cachin Series – French communist leader
SG # 2335
Used (NH)
Death Centenary of Alexander von Humboldt Series – German naturalist
SG # 2337
Used (NH)
Cultural Celebrities Series (Inscribed 1959)
SG # 2346
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2347
Used (NH)
SG # 2350
Used (NH)
Fisheries Protection
SG # 2350a
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2351a
Used (Hinged)
2nd International T.U. Conference Series – Leipzig
SG # 2359
Used (Hinged)
Seven Year Plan Series
SG # 2360
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2362
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2363
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2365
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2366
Used (NH)
International Geophysical Year (2nd Series)
SG # 2372
Used (NH)
25th Birth Anniversary of Mahtumkuli Series – Turkestan writer
SG # 2382
Used (NH)
Launching of “Lunik 3” Rocket Series
SG # 2385
Used (Hinged)
42nd Anniversary of October Revolution Series
SG # 2387
Used (Hinged)
Military Sports Series
SG # 2390
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2392
Used (Hinged)
Landing of Russian Rocket on Moon Series (Inscribed 14 IX 1959)
SG # 2394
Used (NH)
Tourist Publicity Series (Inscribed 1959)
SG # 2406
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2407
Used (Hinged)
1960
Winter Olympic Games Series
SG # 2414
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2415
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2416
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2417
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2418
Used (Hinged)
Air Series
SG # 2421
Used (Hinged)
90th Birth Anniversary of Lenin Series – Portraits of Lenin
SG # 2427
Used (NH)
SG # 2428
Used (NH)
SG # 2429
Used (NH)
Flight of Lunik 3 Series (Inscribed 7.X.1959)
SG # 2431
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2432
Used (Hinged)
75th Birth Anniversary of Ya. M. Sverdlov Series – statesman
SG # 2439
Used (NH)
Philatelists’ Day Series
SG # 2440
Used (NH)
Capitals of Autonomous Republics – 1st issue
SG # 2445
Used (Hinged)
1st International Automation Control Federation Congress Series – Moscow
SG # 2457
Used (NH)
1st Plant Construction of Seven Year Plan Series
SG # 2459
Used (NH)
SG # 2460
Used (Hinged)
XVII Olympic Games Series (Inscribed 1960)
SG # 2467
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2468
Used (Hinged)
125th Birth Anniversary of G.H. Minkh Series – epidemiologist
SG # 2480
Used (Hinged)
15th Anniversary of W.F.T.U. Series (World Federation of Trade Unions)
SG # 2487
Used (NH)
Russian Motor Industry Series
SG # 2494
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2495
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2496
Used (Hinged)
120th Birth Anniversary of J.S. Gogebashvily Series – Georgian teacher
SG # 2497
Used (NH)
43rd Anniversary of October Revolution Series
SG # 2498
Used (Hinged)
50th Birth Anniversary of Chopin Series
SG # 2518
Used (Hinged)
15th Anniversary of Korean Liberation Series
SG # 2519
Used (NH)
1961
Various Scenes Series (Inscribed 1961)
SG # 2531
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2524
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2425
Used (NH)
SG # 2526
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2527
Used (NH)
SG # 2529
Used
SG # 2533
Used (NH)
SG # 2530
Used (NH)
Provincial Costumes – 2nd Series
SG # 2537
Used (NH)
SG # 2538
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2539
Used (NH)
SG # 2541
Used (NH)
Scenes from Russian Fairy Tales Series
SG # 2546
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2548
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2550
Used (Hinged)
40th Anniversary of State Electricity Plan Series
SG # 2552
Used (Hinged)
Death Centenary of T.G. Shevchenko Series – Ukrainian poet and painter
SG # 2561
Used
600th Birth Anniversary of Rublev Series – painter
SG # 2563
Used (Hinged)
Cultural Celebrities Series
SG # 2564
Used (Hinged)
Launching of Venus Rocket Series
SG # 2571
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2572
Used (Hinged)
Africa Freedom Day Series (Inscribed 1961)
SG # 2574
Used (NH)
World’s First Manned Space Flight Series (Inscribed 12-IV-1961)
SG # 2576
Used (NH)
SG # 2577
Used
Lumumba Commemoration Series (2nd issue)
SG # 2593
Used
International Children’s Day Series
SG # 2595
Used (Hinged)
4th and 5th Spacecrafts Flights Series
SG # 2598
Used (Hinged)
150th Birth Anniversary of Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky Series – literary critic and journalist
SG # 2599
Used (Hinged)
40th Anniversary of Soviet Hydro-meteorological Service Series
SG # 2600
Used (Hinged)
Soviet Spartakiad Series
SG # 2602
Used (NH)
40th Anniversary of Revolution in Mongolia Series
SG # 2605
Used
World Youth Forum Series
SG # 2608
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2609
Used (Hinged)
15th Annniversary of International Union of Students Series
SG # 2617a
Used
40th Anniversary of 1st Soviet Stamp Series
SG # 2618
Used (Hinged)
2nd Manned Space Flight Series
SG # 2622
Used (Hinged)
22nd Communist Party Congress (1st issue)
SG # 2626
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2627
Used (Hinged)
Communist Labour Teams Series
SG # 2633
Used (NH)
44th Anniversary of October Revolution Series
SG # 2639
Used (NH)
5th W.F.T.U. Congress Series – Moscow (Inscribed MOCKBA 1961)
SG # 2640
Used (NH)
SG # 2642
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2644
Used (NH)
250th Birth Anniversary of Lomonosov Series – scientist
SG # 2646
Used (NH)
Young Builders of Seven Year Plan (Inscribed 1961)
SG # 2649
Used
SG # 2650
Used
SG # 2651
Used
1962
25th Anniversary of Soviet Constitution Series
SG # 2654
Used (Hinged)
1962
125th Death Anniversary of Pushkin Series – poet
SG # 2660
Used (Hinged)
Russian Ballet (2nd issue) (Inscribed 1962)
SG # 2666
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2667
Used (Hinged)
14th Leninist Young Communist League Congress Series (Inscribed 1962)
SG # 2673
Used (Hinged)
92nd Birth Anniversary of Lenin Series
SG # 2678
Used (Hinged)
Karl Marx Commemoration Series
SG # 2683
Used (Hinged)
50th Anniversary of “Pravda” Newspaper Series
SG # 2684
Used (NH)
SG # 2686
Used
Malaria Eradication Series
SG # 2688
Used (Hinged)
40th Anniversary of All Union Lenin Pioneer Organisation Series
SG # 2689
Used (NH)
SG # 2690
Used (NH)
SG # 2691
Used (NH)
SG # 2692
Used (NH)
SG # 2693
Used (NH)
F.I.S. International Ski Championship Series – Zakopane, Poland
SG # 2695
Used
SG # 2696
Used (NH)
Summer Sports Championships Series
SG # 2698
Used (NH)
SG # 2699
Used (NH)
SG # 2700
Used (NH)
SG # 2701
Used (NH)
SG # 2702
Used (NH)
Centenary of Lenin Library Series
SG # 2706
Used (NH)
World Peace Congress Series
SG # 2712
Used (NH)
Byelorussian Poets Commemoration Series
SG # 2713
Used (NH)
1st “Team” Manned Space Flight Series
SG # 2723
Used (NH)
SG # 2725
Used (NH)
People’s House of Friendship Series – Moscow
SG # 2726
Used (Hinged)
“Atoms for Peace” Series
SG # 2727
Used (NH)
SG # 2728
Used (NH)
Fish Preservation Campaign Series
SG # 2729
Used (Hinged)
150th Anniversary of Patriotic War of 1812 Series
SG # 2733
Used (NH)
SG # 2734
Used (Hinged)
The Russian People Series
SG # 2747
Used (Hinged)
Soviet Scientists Series (Inscribed 1962)
SG # 2756
Used (NH)
Space Flights Commemoration Series
SG # 2759
Used (NH)
SG # 2760
Used (NH)
Launching of Rocket to Mars (2nd issue)
SG # 2765
Used (Hinged)
22nd Communist Party Congress Series – Achievements of the people
SG # 2769
Used
SG # 2774
Used (Hinged)
75th Birth Anniversary of V.N. Podbelsky Series – politician
SG # 2778
Used (NH)
D.N. Pryanishnikov Commemoration Series – agricultural chemist
SG # 2782
Used (NH)
40th Anniversary of Soviet Banks Series
SG # 2792
Used (Hinged)
Heavy Industries Series
SG # 2794
Used (NH)
SG # 2795
Used (NH)
Provincial Costumes – 3rd Series
SG # 2796
Used (Hinged)
1963
Child Welfare Series
SG # 2806
Used (NH)
SG # 2807
Used (NH)
SG # 2808
Used (NH)
SG # 2809
Used (NH)
45th Anniversary of Red Army and War Heroes Series
SG # 2818
Used (NH)
Academy of Sciences Members Series
SG # 2822
Used (NH)
5th Soviet T.U. Winter Sports Series
SG # 2827
Used (Hinged)
Provincial Costumes – 4th Series
SG # 2835
Used (NH)
SG # 2838
Used (NH)
5th Anniversary of World Health Day Series
SG # 2840
Used (NH)
SG # 2841
Used (NH)
SG # 2842
Used (NH)
Cuban-Soviet Friendship Series
SG # 2846
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2847
Used (Hinged)
80th Death Anniversary of Karl Marx Series
SG # 2850
Used (NH)
15th European Boxing Championships Series – Moscow
SG # 2863
Used
Second “Team” Manned Space Flights (1st issue)
SG # 2864
Used (NH)
SG # 2865
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2866
Used (Hinged)
Regional Sports Series
SG # 2883
Used (Hinged)
Aviation Celebrities Series
SG # 2886
Used (NH)
SG # 2888
Used (NH)
Celebrities Series
SG # 2893
Used (Hinged)
Arctic and Antarctic Research Series
SG # 2894
Used
SG # 2895
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2896
Used (Hinged)
SG # 2897
Used (Hinged)
75th Anniversary of Pasteur Institute Series – Paris
SG # 2910
Used (Hinged)
Ancient Smarkand Buildings Series
SG # 2916
Used (NH)
90th Birth anniversary of Steklov Series – first editor of “Isvestia”
SG # 2821
Used (NH)
Precious Stones of the Urals Series
SG # 2928
Used (NH)
SG # 2929
Used (NH)
“First in Space” Series
SG # 2938
Used (Hinged)
1964
250th Birth Anniversary of K. Donelaitis Series – Lithuanian poet
SG # 2946
Used (Hinged)
Heavy Chemical Industries Series
SG # 2953
Used (NH)
SG # 2954
Used (NH)
SG # 2955
Used (NH)
150th Birth Anniversary of T.G. Shevchenko Series – Ukranian poet and painter
SG # 2962
Used (Hinged)
War Heroes Series
SG # 2963
Used (NH)
SG # 2965
Used (NH)
SG # 2966
Used (NH)
Winter Olympic Games Series – Soviet Medal Winners
SG # 2974
Used
Public Security Series
SG # 2976
Used (NH)
20th Anniversary of Liberation of Odessa and Leningrad Series
SG # 2977
Used
“The Way to the Stars” Series – Cosmonautics
SG # 2981
Used (NH)
“The Way to the Stars” Series – Rocket Construction Pioneers
SG # 2982
Used (NH)
SG # 2983
Used (NH)
SG # 2984
Used (NH)
94th Birth Anniversary of Lenin Series
SG # 2986a
Used (NH)
Cultural Anniversaries Series
SG # 2987
Used (NH)
Irrigation Series
SG # 2990
Used (Hinged)
70th Birth Anniversary of Ya B. Gamarnik Series – Soviet army commander
SG # 2991
Used (NH)
Cultural Anniversaries Series
SG # 2996
Used (NH)
60th Birth Anniversary of A.P. Gaidar and N.A. Ostrovsky Series – Writers
SG # 2998
Used (NH)
SG # 2999
Used
20th Anniversary of Rumanian-Soviet Friendship Treaty Series
SG # 3008
Unused (Hinged)
20th Anniversary of Liberation of Byelorussia Series
SG # 3016
Used (Hinged)
Olympic Games Series – Tokyo
SG # 3019
Used (Hinged)
Maurice Thorez Commemoration Series
SG # 3025
Used (NH)
International Anthropologists and Ethnographers Congress Series – Moscow
SG # 3026
Used (NH)
Nehru Commemoration Series
SG # 3027
Used (Hinged)
Centenary of “First International” Series
SG # 3028
Used (Hinged)
SG # 3029
Used (Hinged)
Outstanding Soviet Physicians Series
SG # 3033
Used (NH)
SG # 3034
Used (NH)
SG # 3035
Used (NH)
Togliatti Commemoration Series
SG # 3037
Used (NH)
International Correspondence Week Series
SG # 3038
Used (Hinged)
40th Anniversary of Soviet Republic Series
SG # 3042
Used (Hinged)
SG # 3043
Used (Hinged)
Three-manned Space Flight Series – portraits
SG # 3045
Used (NH)
SG # 3047
Used (NH)
Birth Anniversaries Series
SG # 3056
Used (NH)
Mushrooms Series
SG # 3058
Used (NH)
SG # 3061
Used (NH)
70th Birth Anniversary of Dovzhenko Series – Film producer
SG # 3063
Used (NH)
New Year Series
SG # 3064
Used (NH)
Death Centenary of V. Ya Struve Series – scientist
SG # 3065
Used (NH)
Chemistry for the National Economy Series
SG # 3069
Used (NH)
Mountaineering Series
SG # 3077
Used (NH)
SG # 3078
Used (NH)
SG # 3079
Used (NH)
Kremlin Treasures Series
SG # 3080
Used
SG # 3081
Used
SG # 3082
Used (Hinged)
SG # 3084
Used
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