Soviet Union
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: May 24, 1979
Occasion: 1979 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,1979,,Soviet Union
Width: 82 mm
Height: 64 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.50 x 11.50
Printing method: Photogravure
Catalog number:
     Scott 4751
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIV
Stamp ID = 3467

This issov-19790414-w-001 overprinted in red with (translated from the Russian)

SOVIET HOCKEY PLAYERS
CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
AND EUROPE



From Wikipedia "Postage stamps of the Soviet Union"

Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription Russian: "Почта СССР" ("Post of the USSR").