Russia
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Width: 37 mm
Height: 26 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.25 x 12.00
Catalog number:
Scott 6576i
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXIV
Stamp ID = 6210
Although best know as a soccer goal keeper, Lev Yashin, was also an ice hockey goalie.
From Wikipedia
Yashin also played ice hockey (also as a goalkeeper) and he won the Soviet Cup in March 1953. He stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on his football career.
Stamp shows a scene from a 1956 Melbourne Olympic soccer game. At the top of the stamp in Russian it says
Stamp shows Lev Yashin
Stamp shows a scene from a 1956 Melbourne Olympic soccer game. At the top of the stamp in Russian it says
Советские футболисты - уемпионы Игр XVI
Олимпиады Мельбурн. 1956 г.
translated
Soviet footballers - the champions of the XVI GamesOlympics Melbourne. 1956
Stamp shows Lev Yashin
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.