Soviet Union, 1937
Portrait of a curly-haired man at a desk, the poet Pushkin.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
СССР ПОЧТА in the bottom corner.
- 1СССР ПОЧТА
- 2А.С. ПУШКИН 1837
- Inscription
- А.С. ПУШКИН 1837 · СССР ПОЧТА · 10 КОП
- Meaning
- СССР ПОЧТА is “USSR Post”; the top line names the poet A. S. Pushkin.
- Issued by
- Soviet Union
- Today
- 15 countries, including Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- Year
- 1937. Issued 10 February 1937.
- Made by
- Vasily Zavyalov (design)
One fact
The set marked a hundred years since the death of the poet Alexander Pushkin; V. Zavyalov designed this value.
Source and public-domain rule
Russian official signs of postage. A sign of postal payment of the Soviet state. Under Russian law, state symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, orders, money and the like) are not objects of copyright, and the postal law defines postage stamps as state signs of postal payment. Wikimedia Commons applies the same reading to stamps of the Russian Empire, the RSFSR and the Soviet Union, to which Russia is the legal successor. Applies only to issuers ru and su. Legal sources: Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Art. 1259(6)(2), Federal Law 176-FZ “On Postal Communications”, Art. 2, Wikimedia Commons stamp guidance (community summary, read through a mirror).
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