Kabard-Balkaria
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First day of issue: Date unknown
Width: 136 mm
Height: 98 mm
Perforation: Imperforate
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXII
Stamp ID = 7483

Collective sheet containing 1 copy each of 8 stamps showing caricatures of chess players. Left to right, top to bottom the 8 players are
  • Tigran Petrosian (Тигран Петросян )
  • Lev Polugaevsky (Лев Полугаевский)
  • Nikolai Krogius (Николй Крогиус)
  • Boris Spassky (Борис Спасский)
  • Aleksander Kochiev (Апександр Кочиев)
  • Gennady Kuzmin (Геннадий Кузьмин)
  • Vladimir Savon (Вдадимир Савон)
  • Oleg Romanishin (Олег Романишин)



From the web site Philatelic Webmasters Organization

The postal administration of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION asks me to inform you of the following:

'as a member of the Universal Postal Union, the postal administration of the Russian Federation issues postage stamps in accordance with the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention and the Letter Post Regulations.

". . . there has recently appeared on world philatelic markets a large number of illicit stamp issues distributed on behalf of official territorial entities of the Russian Federation. These issues feature 'fashionable' subjects such as political figures, sports celebrities, Hollywood movie stars, etc. The postal administration of the Russian Federation draws your attention to the fact that the regions on whose behalf these stamps have been issued form an integral part of the Russian Federation and that, according to the provisions of the UPU Regulations and Russian Federation legislation, they are not authorized to issue postage stamps independently . . ."'

One of those mentioned "official territorial entities" is the Republic of Kabard-Balkaria