Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Portrait of pilot P. N. Nesterov (1887-1914)

  Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Нестеров (born 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1887, Nizhny Novgorod - died 8 September [O.S. 26 August] 1914, Zhovkva, Lviv Oblast) was a Russian pilot, an aircraft designer and an aerobatics pioneer.
  • Original Name: "Пионеры воздухоплавания. П.Н. Нестеров"
  • Artist: V. Pimenov
  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1963
  • Subject: Person
  • Estimated cost: 10 kop (at the rate of exchange 1985)
  • Number of catalogue: 2914 (Postage stamps of Russia and USSR, Vol.5 Edited by V. Soloviev, 2011, ISBN 978-5-86656-235-0)