Russia
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First day of issue: December 15, 2016
Width: 140 mm
Height: 100 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXV
Stamp ID = 5005

This cachet is for the 2016–17 Euro Hockey Tour games played in Moscow during the Channel One Cup tournament. The cover is franked with a copy of rus-20160506-s-001 and canceled on December 15, 2016, the opening day of the tournament. The cachet was designed and created by Sergey Nyuppa.


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.