Russia
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Width: 140 mm
Height: 100 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXV
Stamp ID = 5003
This cachet is for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey 2016. Beneath the stamp we see the sweater logos for Team Europe, Canada and 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.