Sunday Stamp 024: From Russia with love

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This week I have a stamp here commemorating the centennial anniversary of Eugeny Feodorov:



The above stamp was issued in mini sheets with illustrations of ice on the margins. From the Russian Marka site:
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov (1910-1981) is the outstanding scientist-geophysicist, state and public figure, academician, Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union. 
In 1932-1938 he was the research assistant on the polar station. Director of the Arctic Scientific and Research Institute (1938-39). Head of Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR (in 1939-47 and 1962-74). Institutor and Director of the Institute of Applied Geophysics, Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR. Postage stamp depicts the portrait of E.K. Fyodorov on the background of a scene of researches on the polar station "North Pole-1".

8 comments:

VioletSky said...

I can only imagine (just barely, not being too scientifically minded) the changes he must have been a part from his years in the early 40s to the 60s and 70s in the Hydrometeorological Service!

Bob Scotney said...

We don't hear much about Russian scientists and Fyodorov is no exception, so this post is educational.

Postcardy said...

I really like the design of that stamp.

Ana said...

I simply love Russian stamps...both of nowadays and at the times of USSR...and I havent heard of Fyodorov before, so great to learn something new :)

viridian said...

North pole, huh. Santa Claus must be just beyond the frame of the stamp. ;-)
thanks for participating!

Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...

That bleak landscape in the background makes me shiver!

Joy said...

I always find the concept of polar research stations fascinating, nice to celebrate a scientist on a stamp.

Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...

Do you have a link to lettersandjournals.com on your PostcardsCrossing blog? I don't know if others are having the same warning but Google keeps telling me: "www.postcardscrossing.com contains content from lettersandjournals.com, a site known to distribute malware."

I tried to comment yesterday and again today, but no luck.

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