''Filateliya''. (''Philately'') or formerly ''Filateliya SSSR''. (''Philately of the

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'') is a Russian central

philatelic Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...

magazine. It first appeared in 1966 as the monthly bulletin ''Filateliya SSSR'' and was issued by the USSR Ministry of Communications. The magazine content includes the history and

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s, and other related themes.

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The bulletin ''Filateliya SSSR'' was published monthly in

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since 1966. It was an organ of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR and the (russian: Всесоюзное общество филателистов). Its predecessor was the magazine '' Sovetskii Filatelist'' ('' Soviet Philatelist''). The bulletin (later, magazine) included the following information: * announcements of new postage stamp issues, * information about research in postal and philatelic history, * information about thematic collecting, * news about the activities of the All-Union Society of Philatelists, * news about the philatelic organisations in other

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, * a section for junior philatelists. The magazine repeatedly won awards at international

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s. Its circulation was approximately 100,000 copies (in 1977). In 1991, the last year of the USSR existence, the magazine was printed with the circulation of about 44,000 copies. Since then, it was published under the new name of ''Filateliya''.

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* {{cite web , url=http://www.fabiovstamps.com/forum67.html , title=Brief marks of development of philately , author=Budnik, D. , date=May 2004 , work=Forum filatelia e francobolli: Immagini relative ai miei messaggi per il Forum filatelia e francobolli, pagina 67 , publisher=CIFR — Centro Italiano Filatelia Resistenza , access-date=2015-05-26 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526031502/http://www.fabiovstamps.com/forum67.html , archive-date=2015-05-26 , url-status=dead Philately of the Soviet Union Philately of Russia 1966 establishments in the Soviet Union Philatelic periodicals Monthly magazines published in Russia Russian-language magazines Magazines established in 1966 Magazines published in the Soviet Union Magazines published in Moscow

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