Soviet Union stamp catalogue (or CPA catalogue) is a national
catalogue of the
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
and
USSR
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 nationa ...
postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...
s and
miniature sheet
A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a postage stamp or a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that just happen to be printed in small groups (typical of many ea ...
s, which was being published in the USSR by the (CPA) and some other publishers related to the
Ministry of Communications
A Communications Ministry or Department of Communications is a ministry or other government agency charged with communication. Communications responsibilities includes regulating telecommunications, postal services, broadcasting and print media. T ...
. The catalogue usually republished in corpore around once in a 10–15 years. In between republications, additional issues came out every year. These issues contains descriptions of stamps and miniature sheets issued in USSR last year.
History
Early issues
The first Soviet catalogue appeared in 1923 under the editorship of
Feodor 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 ...
. In what follows, several more catalogues were published under his editorship in 1920s.
Fourth edition of the
Soviet Philatelic Association
Soviet Philatelic Association (SFA; russian: Советская филателистическая ассоциация (СФА)) was a business run by the Soviet Union authorities in the field of philately.
History
Two early philatelic public e ...
catalogue published in 1933 under the editorship of also included a listing of the USSR as well.
Postwar issues
In 1948 and 1951, two more catalogues of the USSR postage stamps were published by the Philatelic Bureau under the Book-selling Association of State Publishers (KOGIZ).
This first
postwar
In Western usage, the phrase post-war era (or postwar era) usually refers to the time since the end of World War II. More broadly, a post-war period (or postwar period) is the interval immediately following the end of a war. A post-war period c ...
catalogue included all the RSFSR and USSR postage
issues, which appeared from 1921 to 1948, and stamps of the previous issues (circulated in 1918–1921) as well as special purpose stamps.
In 1955, in Moscow the next edition of the Soviet Union stamp catalogue was published. It was compiled by a team of authors including , , , and . It was printed by the Chief Philatelic Bureau of the
Ministry
Ministry may refer to:
Government
* Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister
* Ministry (government department), a department of a government
Religion
* Christian ...
of Culture of the RSFSR.
In 1970, a new edition, ''The Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR, 1918–1969'', was published in Moscow. It was supplemented yearly afterwards.
In 1976, the publication of ''The Catalogue of Stamps of the USSR, 1918–1974'' occurred followed up by annual additions.
See also
References
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Postage stamps of the Soviet Union
Stamp catalogs