Silver Fox

  The silver fox is a melanistic form of red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Silver foxes display a great deal of pelt variation: some are completely black except for a white coloration on the tip of the tail, some are bluish-grey, and some may have a cinereous color on the sides. Historically, silver foxes were among the most valued furbearers, and their skins were frequently worn by nobles in Russia, Western Europe, and China. Wild silver foxes do not naturally reproduce exclusively with members of the same coat morph, and can be littermates with the common red variety, though captive populations bred for their fur are almost exclusively mated with members of the same color.

• Original Name: "Лисица серебристо-чёрная"
• Series: Valuable species of fur-bearing animals
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1980-06-25
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 2 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4968
• Perforation:comb 12x12½
• Size:30.5x43 mm

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