Russia
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Stamp picture
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First day of issue: March 15, 2000
Width: 37 mm
Height: 26 mm
Perforation: Imperforate
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXIV
Stamp ID = 6438

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

Советские футболисты - уемпионы Игр XVI
Олимпиады Мельбурн. 1956 г.


translated

Soviet footballers - the champions of the XVI Games
Olympics 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.