USSR 1977 Russian Art

• Label : „Ministry of Communications of the USSR“; 1977; commemorative stamps of the Issue „Russian Art“;
  

(issue of 1 small-sheet à 6 stamps (2x3) as se-tenant)

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: 4655-4660 (se-tenant: No. 46554660KB); Yvert & Tellier: 4417-4422; Scott: No. 4608 (= se-tenant); AFA: No. 4595-4600
• Color: multicolored with gold
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 68 = 4 – 6 - 10 – 12 – 16 – 20 (Kopeks)
• Postage validity : since 12 October 1977
• Designed by : German Alekseevich Komlev (1926-2000)
• Printed by : „Goznak State Printing House“, Moscow (Russia)
• Print process : Offset printing and letterpress printing, combined on luminescent paper
• Perforation :

- Comb perforation, K 12½ : 11¾

- Comb perforation, K 12½ : 12 (other source)

• Print run : 6,000,000 se-tenants à 6 stamps (2+3)
• Stamp size :

- single stamp without frame : 48.0 x 33.0 mm

- cutted format of a small-sheet : 187.0 x 107.0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the Issue „Russian Art“;
(issue of 1 small-sheet à 6 stamps (2x3) as se-tenant)

Stamps

Mint

Michel No. 4655, mint	Michel No. 4656, mint	Michel No. 4657, mint
Michel No. 4658, mint	Michel No. 4659, mint	Michel No. 4660, mint

Postmarked

File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 7a1.jpg Michel No. 4655, postmarked	File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 2a1.jpg Michel No. 4656, postmarked	File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 3a1.jpg Michel No. 4657, postmarked
File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 4a1.jpg Michel No. 4658, postmarked	File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 5a1.jpg Michel No. 4659, postmarked	File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 6a1.jpg Michel No. 4660, postmarked

Small sheet

Small-sheet with se-tenant Michel No. 46554660KB, mint

File:USSR 1977 Russian Art 14a1.jpg Small-sheet with se-tenant Michel No. 46554660KB, postmarked

To the stamp motives:
- 4 K (Kopeks) : Wooden Leo/Tiger carving at the „Saint Dmitry“-Cathedral of Vladimir (Vladimir Oblast) on the Klyazma-River, 12th century
- 6 K (Kopeks) : Barmy (bracelet) from Ryazan, 12th century
- 10 K (Kopeks) : Detail of the Golden Gate of the „Nativity“-Cathedral of Suzdal, 13th century
- 12 K (Kopeks) : „Archangel Michael“, detail from an icon by Andrei Rublev around 1360 - 1430), 15th century
- 16 K (Kopeks) : „Golden and Marble Piotr“-Chalice made by Ivan Fomin and donated to the „Trinity“-Monastery in 1449 by Grand-Prince Vassily I; contemporary located at the „Sergiev Posad-Museum“ in Sergiev Posad (ca. 70 km northeastern of Moscow, Russia)
- 20 K (Kopeks) : „Saint Basil‘s Cathedral“ in Moscow (official name of the Russian-Orthodox church: „Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat“); built 1555-1561 as commemotarion of the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan (as church consecrated on 12 July 1561), Moscow (Russia)