Russia
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: April 16, 2017
Width: 220 mm
Height: 110 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXV
Stamp ID = 5001

This cachet is for the 2017 Gagarin Cup final game. In the lower right hand corner we see the Gagarin Cup logo. In the left side of the cover we see the logos of the two competing teams:Metallurg Magnitogorsk and SKA Saint Petersburg. We also see the goal tender of the winning Saint Petersburg team, Mikko Koskinen. The cover is franked with a copy of rus-20160220-s-001 and canceled on April 16, 2017, the final day of the tournament. The cachet was designed and created by Sergey Nyuppa.

Cachet shows Mikko Koskinen

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.