Russia
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First day of issue: September 29, 2016
Width: 220 mm
Height: 110 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXV
Stamp ID = 5002

This cachet is for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey 2016. To the left of the stamp we see the sweater logos for Team Europe and Canada and in the lower right corner of the cover we see the logo for the tournament. On the left side of the cover we see a picture of the Canadian captain, Sidney Crosby. The cover is franked with a copy of rus-20160220-s-001 and canceled on September 29, 2016, the final day of the tournament. The cachet was designed and created by Sergey Nyuppa.

Cachet shows Sidney Crosby

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.