Gagea lutea

  Gagea lutea, the Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, is a Eurasian plant species widespread from Spain and Norway to Siberia and Japan. Gagea lutea is a bulb-forming perennial herb with lanceolate leaves and yellow flowers.

• Original Name: "Гусиный лук жёлтый"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1983-06-14
• Subject: Flowers
• Face value: 20 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5281

Cyclamen elegans

  Cyclamen elegans (Cyclamen coum subsp. elegans) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaijan. It is native to forest in the Alborz Mountains of northwestern Iran and extreme southeastern Azerbaijan below 500 m (1,600 ft) elevation, where it can even be found growing in moss on the lower limbs of trees.

• Original Name: "Цикламен изящный"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1983-06-14
• Subject: Flowers
• Face value: 15 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5281

Anemone hepatica

  Anemone hepatica is a herbaceous perennial growing from a rhizome in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

• Original Name: "Печеночница благородная"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1983-06-14
• Subject: Flowers
• Face value: 10 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5280

Siberian squills

  Scilla siberica (Siberian squill or wood squill) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southwestern Russia, the Caucasus, and Turkey. Despite its name, it is not native to Siberia.

• Original Name: "Пролеска сибирская"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1983-06-14
• Subject: Flowers
• Face value: 6 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5279

Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis)

  Galanthus (snowdrop; Greek gála "milk", ánthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn.

• Original Name: "Подснежник белоснежный"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1983-06-14
• Subject: Flowers
• Face value: 4 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5278

60th Anniversary of "Pionerskaya Pravda" newspaper (USSR postage stamp)

  Pionerskaya Pravda (Пионе́рская Пра́вда) is an all-Russian newspaper. Initially it was an all-Union newspaper of the Soviet Union. Its name may be translated as "Truth for Young Pioneers".

  The newspaper has been founded March 6, 1925 in Moscow. In the 1970s and 1980s its circulation approached 10,000,000 (almost every child in the Soviet Union had a subscription). Its title follows the name of the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda, as did multiple other newspapers. The newspaper continues to exist today, but now it is not associated with Young Pioneers, and the circulation is greatly reduced.

  Postage stamp was printed in USSR in 1985.

• Original Name: "Газете Пионерская Правда 60 лет"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1985
• Subject: Anniversary
• Estimated cost: 5 kop. (at the rate of exchange 1985)
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5475