Russia issued their first Europa stamp in 1995. This postcard shows the Europa stamps of Russia from 1995 to 2011 (no stamps for 2006 or 2007). The stamps are arranged chronologically in three rows.
The Europa themes illustrated are:
- 1995 Peace and Freedom
- 1996 Famous Women (Y.Dashkova, 1st President of Academy of Science; S.Kovalevskaya, mathematician)
- 1997 Tales and Legends
- 1998 Festivals and National Celebrations (End of Winter)
- 1999 Nature Reserves and Parks
- 2000 Common Design: Tower of 6 Stars (same design used by various countries)
- 2001 Water, Treasure of Nature (view of Lake Baikal, map of Lake Baikal and the representatives of its fauna)
- 2002 The Circus (juggling, training, aerial acrobatics, magic tricks, clowning)
- 2003 Poster Art ("My first steps are toward Einem cookies")
- 2004 Holidays (beach holiday)
- 2005 Gastronomy (a samovar and traditional food on Shrove Tuesday: Pancakes, red and black caviar, bagels)
- 2008 Writing Letters (birch-bark scroll, ancient scroll with wax seal, modern letter in an envelope icon email)
- 2009 Astronomy
- 2010 Children Books
- 2011 Forests (silver birch forest and magpie)
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I have many of these on postcards but not the forest one,sadly. Forest was a great theme for europa stamps and most were gorgeous
ReplyDeleteRussia have produced some great Europa stamps when looking at them as a whole like this. The portrayal of the sunlit glade captures the magic sand essence of a forest.
ReplyDeleteIn looking at your postcard, I noticed the forest stamp immediately. What great colors in this beauty. Thank you for participating.
ReplyDeleteWow, the forest stamp is amazing!
ReplyDeletethe forest stamp is the only one I have! and seeing the others, I agree it s the nicest of the lot.
ReplyDeleteI can see why we all like the forest stamp.
ReplyDeleteThat forest stamp will be my favorite too! :) I believe I have it on the back of one of my postcards...
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