Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2015

Set of postage stamps "The International Competitions" Part.1

  The Friendship Games, or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84), was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Postage stamps were printed in USSR in 1984.
  • Original Name: "Спортивные соревнования"
  • Artist: I. Sushenko
  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1984
  • Subject: Sport
  • Estimated cost: 15, 1, 20 kop. (at the rate of exchange 1984)
  • Number of catalogue: 5545, 5542, 5546 (Postage stamps of Russia and USSR, Vol.5 Edited by V. Soloviev, 2011, ISBN 978-5-86656-235-0)
  • Impression: 3.5m

Winter Olympic postage stamps (USSR)

  The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 18–28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. Postage stamps were printed on special custom-made paper in USSR in 1960.
  • Original Name: "Зимняя олимпиада в Скво-Вэлли"
  • Artist: R. Zhitkov
  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1960
  • Subject: Sport
  • Estimated cost: 40, 25 kop. (at the rate of exchange 1960)
  • Number of catalogue: 2397, 2398 (Postage stamps of Russia and USSR, Vol.4 Edited by V. Soloviev, 2011, ISBN 978-5-86656-238-1)
  • Impression: 2.5m