Soviet Union
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: 1973
Width: 140 mm
Height: 90 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIII
Stamp ID = 6680

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Издательство "Изобразительное искусство", Москва, 1973Publishing House "Fine Art", Moscow, 1973

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НЕОЖИДАННЫЙ ПРОРЫВ ХОККЕИСТА,
«МЕТЕОРА» –
ГОЛ!!! КАПИТАН «МЕТЕОРА» ДОВОЛЕН

Художники Ъ. Дежкин и В. Соболев		12
THE UNEXPECTED HOCKEY BREAKTHROUGH
"METEORA" -
GOAL!!! CAPTAIN "METEORA" SATISFIED

Artists B. Dezhkin and V. Sobolev

1 of 16 postcards based on the cartoon "Rematch" by B. Dezhkin and V. Sobolev showing the stages of an ice hockey game. B. Dezhkin and V. Sobolev were artists working for the Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm. You can see the cartoon here.

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").