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![]() Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: December 10, 2021 Width: 65 mm Height: 32 mm Perforation: Perforated 11.75 x 11.75 Creative team: I. Pinchuk, Designer Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXVI Stamp ID = 7018 The stamp celebrates 75 years of Russian ice hockey. On December 22, 1946, the first USSR ice hockey championship opened with games in Moscow, Leningrad, Arkhangelsk, Riga and Kaunas. Stamp shows Anatoli Firsov Stamp shows Valeri Kharlamov Stamp shows Valeri Vasiliev (On some stamps the name is spelled as Valery Vassiliev.) 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. |