Scientific research vessel "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin"

  "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" - scientific research vessel for controlling the spacecrafts to perform trajectory and telemetry, to liaise ground mission control points with the crews of space ships and stations. The largest and most powerful ship in its class. 
  Built in 1971 in Leningrad. Maximum length of 231.6 m, maximum width of 31.0 m, height of the board at the midsection of 15.4 m. Displacement with full stocks of 45,000 tonnes, sea gauge 8.5 m. The steam turbine power plant with capacity of 19,000 horsepower, the maximum travel speed up to 18 knots. Range continuous voyage of 20,000 miles. It has been attributed to the port of Odessa. From 1971 to 1991, the ship has fulfilled 20 cruises in the Atlantic Ocean. The main task was to control flights of satellites, manned spacecrafts and unmanned interplanetary stations.
  After the collapse of the USSR the ship passed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence. It was not used for its intended purpose and based in the port of Yuzhny near Odessa. In 1996 the ship was sold for scrap at a price of 170$ per tonne for the Austrian company "Merkur Zuid" and disposed of.

• Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1979-12-25
• Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Face value: 10 kopecks
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4910

Scientific research vessel "Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov"

  "Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov" - scientific research vessel designed to collect telemetry data from the spacecrafts and connection of ground flight control points with the crews of space ships and stations. Built in 1977 in Leningrad, as part of a series of four ships of the project "Selena-M". 
  Maximum length of 121.9 m, maximum width of 16.7 m, height of the board to the upper deck of 10.8 m; Total displacement of 8,950 tonnes of sludge 6,6 m; Main propulsion - diesel engine capacity of 5200 liters. The speed of 14.7 knots. 
Marine reserves: oil - 1440 tons, lubricating oil - 30 tons, washing and drinking water - 600 t; Cruising range of 16 000 miles. Stocks have enough provisions for 90 days, water supplies - for 30 days. The crew consisted of 66 people, the expedition - 77 people. Navigation area seaworthy vessel is not limited. From 1977 to 1991 the ship complied with 14 expeditionary flights to Central and South Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean. The main task was to ensure control of the flight control center in charge of an operation conducted on manned orbital stations, control switching booster rocket stages during the launches of geostationary satellites and satellites with highly elliptical orbits.
  In 2000, the vessel was dismantled in the Kaliningrad shipyard "Baltica".

• Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1979-12-25
• Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Face value: 6 kopecks
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4909

Scientific research vessel "Ernst Krenkel"

  "Ernst Krenkel" - a specialized ocean-going vessel of ice class tonnage of 4500 tons, built in 1971 (Poland). Designed for comprehensive oceanographic and meteorological research. The vessel has committed a second (1997) and third (1998) Antarctic expedition. Total displacement of 4,500 tonnes.
Currently the ship is at berth of UkrSCES (Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of Sea, Odessa), in the village of Yuzhny.

• Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1979-12-25
• Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Face value: 4 kopecks
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4908

Scientific research vessel "Professor Bogorov"

  "Professor Bogorov" - scientific research vessel type "Valerian Uryvaev", is intended to carry out oceanographic research. Built in 1976 at the Finnish shipyard "Layvateollisuus" in Turku.
  The ship was in charge of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976-1991), and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991). Maximum length of 68.77 m, maximum width of 12.42 m, total displacement of 1671 tonnes; the main engine - RBV 6M 358; the speed of 13,5 knots. Assigned to the port of Vladivostok. 
  The ship provided 11 laboratories, the crew was 32 people, expedition staff - 28 people.

• Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1979-12-25
• Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Face value: 2 kopecks
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4907

Scientific research vessel "Vulcanolog"

  The vessel "Vulcanolog" (volcanologist) - scientific research vessel type "Valerian Uryvayev" of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Launched on April 26, 1976; it built at the Khabarovsk shipbuilding plant. It is at the disposal of the Institute of Volcanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
  The vessel is built on a special project and was intended for research submarine volcanism and seismic activity in the Pacific Ocean. Total committed 41 research cruises; visited Mexico, New Guinea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, the area near the Kamchatka Peninsula. As a result of the geological research of the bottom patterns were identified in the Kuril-Kamchatka region, made up of tectonic maps, discovered and described seismically active faults.
After 1991, the ship was used for passenger flights.

• Series: Scientific research fleet of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1979-12-25
• Perforation: comb 12 x 11½
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Face value: 1 Russian kopeck
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4906

Eugene Delacroix (Set of USSR Postcards, 1959)

  Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

• Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France (Location: Louvre, Paris, France).

• Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (fragment).

• Woman with a Parrot, 1827 (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France).
• Arab Comedians, 1848 (Location: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours, Tours, France).

• Saint Georges fighting with the Dragon, 1854 (Location: Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France).
• Lion Hunt in Morocco, 1854 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

• Marocan and his horse, 1855 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

• The Death of Ophelia, 1843 (Location: Private Collection).

• Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1843 (Location: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France).

• The Scene in Auerbach's Cellar.

• Country: USSR
• Year: 1959
• Subject: Art
• Impression: 50 000

Orange Hermit (Satyrus bischoffi)

  The Orange Hermit (Chazara bischoffii) is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found from Turkey, through Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan and southern Transcaucasia. The wingspan is 45–60 mm. The butterflies fly from June to August.

• Original Name: "Сатир Бишоффа"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 20 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5588

Dark creamson underwing (Catocala sponsa)

  Catocala sponsa, the dark crimson underwing, is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Europe, North Africa and from Anatolia up to the Caucasus. The wingspan is 60–70 millimetres (2.4–2.8 in). Adults are on wing from July to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on oak.

• Original Name: "Лента орденская малиновая"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 15 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5587

Sooty orange-tip (Zegris eupheme)

  The sooty orange tip (Zegris eupheme) is a Palearctic Pieridae butterfly that has a range that extends through southern Europe, southwest Europe, northern Africa, East Kazakhstan and Asia Minor Global warming currently seems to be extending its range to the north. The habitat consists of open flowery grasslands amongst hills. The wingspan is 46–50 mm (1.8–2.0 in). Adults have yellow undersides and a patch of orange. They have distinctive grey-black forewing tips. Adults are on wing from mid March to mid June in one generation per year.

• Original Name: "Зорька зегрис"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 10 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5586

Allancastria caucasica

  Allancastria caucasica, sometimes referred to as Zerynthia caucasica, is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Black Sea and southern Russia (southern Caucasus Mountains) to Georgia and northeast Turkey. It exhibits several geographical variants. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

• Original Name: "Зеринтия кавказская"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 5 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5585

Crimson-speckled moth (Utetheisa pulchella)

  The Crimson-speckled Flunkey (Utetheisa pulchella) is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It is found in Africa, Southern Europe, Central and Southern Asia and Australia. The wingspan is 29–42 mm. The larvae feed on Forget-me-not, Echium, Borago and Anchusa species.

• Original Name: "Медведица красноточечная"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 4 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5584

The Siberian Tiger

  The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult and subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population had been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population was declining. By 2015, the Siberian tiger population has increased to 480–540 individuals in the Russian Far East, including 100 cubs. A more detailed census revealed a total population of 562 wild Siberian tigers in Russia.

• Original Name: "Амурский тигр"
• Series: Fauna of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1977-12-16
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 30 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4685
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

  The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the family Odobenidae and genus Odobenus. This species is subdivided into three subspecies:[3] the Atlantic walrus (O. r. rosmarus) which lives in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific walrus (O. r. divergens) which lives in the Pacific Ocean, and O. r. laptevi, which lives in the Laptev Sea of the Arctic Ocean.

• Original Name: "Морж"
• Series: Fauna of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1977-12-16
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 30 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4684
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess

Light-grey Arab Stallion (N. Sverchkov, 1860)

  Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov (Russian: Николай Егорович Сверчков, 1817, Saint Petersburg—1898, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian painter and engraver. The first exhibition of his work was in 1844. Sverchkov's Return from the bear hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. In 1864, after returning to Petersburg from abroad, Sverchkov painted Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich Attends a Military Parade in 1664, for Alexander II.

• Original Name: "Светло-серый арабский жеребец"
• Series: Horses in Paintings
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1988-07-20
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 5 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5854
• Perforating: comb 12¼ x 11¾
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 57 x 37 mm

Polar Bear

  The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

• Original Name: "Белый медведь"
• Series: Fauna of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1977-12-16
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 16 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4683
• Perforating: comb 11½ x 12
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess
• Size: 52 x 37 mm

Desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis)

  The desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family Gliridae. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia. It is endemic to Kazakhstan.

• Original Name: "Боялычная соня"
• Series: Protected animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1985-08-15
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 5 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5539
• Perforating: comb 12 x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 28 x 40 mm

Pamir shrew

  The Buchara shrew (Sorex buchariensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Tajikistan.

• Original Name: "Бухарская бурозубка"
• Series: Protected animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1985-08-15
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 2 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5537
• Perforating: comb 12 x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 28 x 40 mm

Black Sable

  The sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten which inhabits forest environments, primarily in Russia from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, eastern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, China, North and South Korea and Hokkaidō in Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. It has historically been hunted for its highly valued fur, which remains a luxury good to this day. While hunting of wild animals is still common in Russia, most fur in the market is now commercially farmed.

• Original Name: "Соболь чёрный"
• Series: Valuable species of fur-bearing animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1980-06-25
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 15 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4972
• Printing: Offset lithography Size: 30x42 mm

Nutria (Myocastor coypus)

  The coypu (from Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun kóypu; Myocastor coypus), also known as the river rat or nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, it has since been introduced to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, primarily by fur ranchers. Although it is still valued for its fur in some regions, its destructive feeding and burrowing behaviors make this invasive species a pest throughout most of its range.

• Original Name: "Нутрия белая азербайджанская"
• Series: Valuable species of fur-bearing animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1980-06-25
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 10 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4971
• Size: 30x43.5 mm

European Mink

  The European mink (Mustela lutreola), also known as the Russian mink, is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to Europe. It is similar in colour to the American mink, but is slightly smaller and has a less specialised skull. Despite having a similar name, build and behaviour, the European mink is not closely related to the American mink, being much closer to the European polecat and Siberian weasel (kolonok). The European mink occurs primarily by forest streams unlikely to freeze in winter. It primarily feeds on voles, frogs, fish, crustaceans and insects.

• Original Name: "Норка тёмно-коричневая"
• Series: Valuable species of fur-bearing animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1980-06-25
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 6 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4970
• Perforation:comb 12½x12
• Size: 42.5x30.5 mm