Russia
rus-19920400-z-001
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: April, 1992
Width: 146 mm
Height: 102 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXIV
Stamp ID = 3429

The stamp (a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hockey_stamp.pl?stamp=/stamps/scans/Soviet%20Union/sov-19711215-s-001-01.jpg&number=112">sov-19711215-s-001) and the postcard both date from the Soviet era, but the cancel is from 1992.

From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Russia (1857-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 147,987,101 (1997 estimate). A country comprising the greater portion of eastern Europe and northern Asia.