Philatelic gagarinian

Apparently, one of the first to use the concept of “philatelic Gagarinian” was E. P. Sashenkov. In particular, in his fundamental work on space philately “Postal souvenirs of the space age”. He devoted a separate chapter to this topic “The Philatelic Gagarinian” ^[1] .

Since 1961, stamps and other collectible materials on this topic have appeared many times both in the USSR and in other countries of the world, including modern Russia .

The bulk of philatelic materials directly dedicated to Yu. A. Gagarin is in the Soviet Union. The postal departments of other socialist countries also devoted their philatelic issues to these topics quite often. Stamps with the image of Gagarin were also printed in so many countries that do not belong to the socialist camp .

USSR issues

Russian Editions

In 2001, the Marka Publishing and Trading Center (ITC) and the Russian Post prepared and put into circulation a couple of two stamps to mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned space flight. They were printed in vintage sheets of 18 couplings and in small sheets of three couplings ^[2] . However, later this issue was at the center of the scandal. 

In 2009, a Russian brand dedicated to the 75th birthday of Yuri Gagarin was released. Her face value is 10 rubles . On the stamp was an unpublished photograph of an astronaut dated April 12, 1961 and taken immediately after the Vostok spaceship landed (photographer V. Smirnov ). Three special cancellations and an envelope of the first day were timed to the same event ^[3] .

• Yuri Gagarin on postage stamps of Russia
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  2004: on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Yu. A. Gagarin ( CFA [ ITC Marka ] No. 916)

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  2009: on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Yu. A. Gagarin ( CFA [ ITC Marka ] No. 1304)

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  2011: to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight

2001 Hitch Scandal

The two-stamp coupling of Russia in 2001 caused a scandal and a lawsuit . On the right mark of the hitch, Yu. A. Gagarin was imprinted, reporting on the successful completion of a space flight ^[2] . As it turned out, the artist A. Kernosov used the photograph taken in 1961 by TASS correspondent Valery Gende-Rot . After the stamps were released, his daughter Tatyana Martynova sued the Marka Research and Development Center and won the case. In 2003, by the decision of the court, the “Marka” ITC paid the heiress of the photojournalist 150 thousand rubles ^[4] .

Other Country Editions

Beginning in April 1961, postage stamps, first-day envelopes and other philatelic materials appeared repeatedly in the world, and commemorative special cancellations were made. The first foreign postal issue was two Czechoslovakian stamps with inscriptions in the Czech language : “USSR Knight over the Universe 12.IV.1961” - in the first miniature and “Soviet Man in Space 12.IV.1961” - in the second ( Sc # 1042, 1043 ) For them, a drawing of stamps depicting a man hovering in space in a spacesuit was put in circulation shortly before April 12, 1961 and had the inscription: “Man conquering space”. The new "Gagarin" miniatures, issued on April 13, differed from the previous "anonymous" brands in color and denominations ^{[5] [6]} .

Gagarin and his flight into space are also devoted to the brands of Albania (1961; a series of three brands), Belarus (2011), Hungary (1962), Ajman (1968) and many other countries.

In 1996, the government of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia printed a postage stamp and a block in honor of the 35th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin. The postal miniature was published in the form of a sheet of 12 stamps and four coupons (at the corners of the sheet). The issue is not of a postal nature and is intended for collectors ^[11] .

• Examples of other philatelic materials on the theme of "Gagarian"
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  USSR : One-sided postcard with the original stamp and special cancellation on the 10th anniversary of the flight of Yu. Gagarin into space (1971)

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  The same for the 15th anniversary (1981)

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  The same for the 20th anniversary (1981)

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  USSR: artistic labeled envelope for the 15th anniversary of the space age (1972)

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  The same for the 50th birthday of Gagarin (1984)

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  Russia : the same for the All-Russian Philatelic Exhibition “To the Stars-2004” ( Smolensk ), dedicated to the 70th birthday of Gagarin

Gagarin's theme is invariably present in publications on space philately (astrophilatelia). For example, the book of Yevgeny Sashenkov “Postal souvenirs of the space era” (1969), with a separate chapter “The Philatelic Gagarinian”, was dedicated to the memory of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, and the first cosmonaut himself managed to write a preface to the book ^[13] .

In 1984, the Soviet Union published the book “You Know What a Guy He Was ... Postage Stamps, Envelopes , Special Cancellations”, specially dedicated to the Gagarin theme in philately. Its author is Alexander Mil . The book was opened with an introductory article by the second Soviet cosmonaut German Titov ^[12] .

Among modern Russian publications, the illustrated catalog “Yu. Gagarin on postage stamps ”(2005), compiled by Yuri Kvasnikov ^[14] . It systematized information on 386 postage stamps from 85 countries that went to mark the world's first manned space flight ^[15] .

In the same year, two collections of articles “The Philatelic Gagarinian” appeared, prepared and published by the Nizhny Novgorod collector Konstantin Zaitsev ^{[16] [17] [18]} .

In Italy, in 2004, Enrico Grassani's book ( Italian: Enrico Grassani ) was published entitled Yuri Gagarin ei primi voli spaziali sovietici (Yuri Gagarin and the First Soviet Space Flight) ^[19] , which, in addition to historical materials, contains philatelic a section describing postage stamps, envelopes of the first day and special cancellation of the time ^[20] .

• Gagarin, Yuri Alekseevich
• Yuri Gagarin in culture and art

• Gulkov V. Anniversary of the first flight in Pskov // NG - Collection. - 2001. - No. 4 (53). - April, 4. (Retrieved August 25, 2009)
• Kantemirov B. Gagarin is dedicated. Space philately // Kaliningrad truth. - 2001. - April 11. (Retrieved August 25, 2009)
• Kantemirov B. Gagarinskaya smile on stamps and envelopes // Kaliningrad Pravda. - 2006. - No. 38 (17020). - April 13th. (Retrieved August 25, 2009)
• Kvasnikov Yu. Space philately: its beginning and some results // Cosmonautics News . - 1997. - No. 20. - September 22 - October 5. (Retrieved August 27, 2009)
• Kvasnikov Yu. The first cosmonaut of the planet on postage stamps // Cosmonautics News. - 1998. - No. 6. - February 15-28. (Retrieved August 27, 2009)
• Kvasnikov Yu. Cosmonauts on postage stamps // Cosmonautics News. - 2001. - No. 6. - April 1-30. (Retrieved August 27, 2009)
• Kvasnikov, Yu. From Yuri Gagarin to Yuri Gidzenko // NG - Collection. - 2001. - No. 4 (53). - April, 4. (Retrieved August 25, 2009)
• About Gagarin // News of philately. - 2008. - No. 4 (183). - April 1. (Retrieved August 25, 2009)
• Sashenkov E. Postal souvenirs of the space age. - M .: Communication, 1969 .-- 304 p. [ Foreword by Y. Gagarin ; Ch. The Philatelic Gagarinian .]] (Retrieved August 25, 2009)

• The history of astronautics in philately. “To the Stars 2004” (neopr.) . Events in the regions . Post of Russia. Date of treatment August 25, 2009. Archived March 31, 2012.
• Stamps of the Country of Soviets: a catalog of postage stamps of the RSFSR and the USSR from 1917 to 1992. Digital catalogue. CD-ROM - M .: MediaHouse; Com.Media, 2005.
• Semkin K. Makarevich about the flight of Gagarin and something about the leaflet (neopr.) . Personal blog ks . Kirill Syomkin (December 15, 2008). Date of treatment August 25, 2009. Archived March 31, 2012.
• Jyoti J. First Man in Space - Yuri Gagarin (neopr.) . Rainbow Stamp Club . Jeevan Jyoti; Blogspot Blogger Google (February 17, 2009). Date of treatment August 26, 2009. Archived March 31, 2012.
• Почта Шри-Ланки выпускает марку с Ю. А. Гагариным.