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F. G. Chuchin
Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin (1883-1942) was an official in the Soviet government who was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. He also was an author on numismatic and philatelic topics. Early life and family Feodor Chuchin was born in 1883.Birch, Brian. (2013) ''Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers''. 13th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch, p. 597. Career As an official in the Soviet government, he was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. In 1924, he published ''Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki'' (paper banknotes) which has become a standard work on the subject. In 1925, as Commissioner for Philately, Chuchin published his ''Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps'', the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the standard used for those issues. In 1984, John Barefoot published a revised edition of Chuchin's catalogue as volume 14 of his European Philately series.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/314729281 Deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
