Russia
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Width: 140 mm
Height: 100 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXV
Stamp ID = 5006
This cachet is for the 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships played in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. However the cachet shows Canadian player Nicolas Petan and Russian player Alexander Sharov from the 2015 World Junior Championship game in Toronto. The cover is franked with a copy of rus-20160506-s-001 and canceled on December 26, 2016, the opening day of the tournament. The cachet was designed and created by Sergey Nyuppa.
Cachet shows Nicolas Petan
Cachet shows Alexander Sharov
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.