Below you will find articles about Russia, Soviet Union. Or click here to view stamps with the subject Russia, Soviet Union in the catalog.
Between Finland and Russia lies a region named Karelia. For centuries, this area has suffered from conflicts between Russians, Swedes, and Finns. The greater part of Karelia is now Russian as the Republic of Karelia and comprises the former...
Where people work, mistakes are made, and the same applies to the design of stamps. So many stamps have been issued with design flaws or errors of other kinds that it has become a collecting field in itself. Here are a few examples of stamps where it is not...
April 14 is a date on which several historical events took place. Here you will find a selection I have made, illustrated by stamps. It is nice to see how you can easily bring history and stamps together! 1865 American President Lincoln...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in Seoul in 1988. The Seoul Games were a great success. After the three previous Games had each been hit by a major boycott, nearly 160 countries were present in Seoul...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XX Olympiad were held in Munich in 1972. Munich managed to secure the nomination for the Games ahead of Detroit, Madrid, and Montreal. No expense was spared in the organization of these Games. There was...
When I first heard about the Berlin Wall as a child, I was deeply impressed. A wall, just like that, right in the middle of the city where you live. People who became brutal overnight...
Yesterday we already saw that many cycling events have been organized over the past decades. We discussed the events from 1912 to 1963. Today we continue here from 1963. Will you cycle along with me again? 1963. 80 years...
On April 7, Poland issued this stamp in memory of the Katyn massacre. In 1940, Katyn was one of the locations where the Soviet Union's secret service executed nearly 26.000 Polish civilians, clergy, and military personnel. These Poles...
During the summer holidays, I read Frank Westerman's book titled Ararat. The name struck me. On the one hand, because of the beginning of the book, where the author starts with: Stack the syllables of Ararat and you get a mountain. On the other hand...
Little is known about the early years of philatelic North Korea. And it is certainly not a popular collecting area in the Netherlands. It was also quite difficult to obtain stamps from that country. And they didn't look good either,...
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