Soviet Union
sov-19720120-c-001
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Occasion: 1972 Winter Olympics, 1972, Sapporo, Japan
First Day of Issue cancel for sov-19720120-s-01 and sov-19720120-w-01. Cancel is 34 mm x 43 mm.
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Translated from the Russian
USSR
ELEVENTH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
FIRST DAY
PREMIER JOUR
MOSCOW
POST OFFICE
20.1.72
ELEVENTH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
FIRST DAY
PREMIER JOUR
MOSCOW
POST OFFICE
20.1.72
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIII
From Wikipedia "Postage stamps of the Soviet Union"
Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription Russian: "Почта СССР" ("Post of the USSR").