Collector (Yearbook)

It has been produced since 1963 in Moscow . Previously called the “Soviet Collector” and published in 1963-1965 by the Moscow City Society of Collectors (MGOK), since 1966 - the All-Union Society of Philatelists and the Svyaz Publishing House .

Traditionally, the collection includes sections: “Philately” (which occupies a larger volume), “Numismatics”, “Bonistics”, “Filocartia”, “ Philluménia ” and the information department, which contains materials about books, exhibitions, philately abroad and other materials.

Today it is the only almanac of this kind in Russia, which is also known abroad; repeatedly awarded medals (in literature) at world philatelic exhibitions. In 1999 he was awarded at the exhibition “Filexfrance” in Paris ^[1] . In 2004, he received a silver medal at the Singapore 2004 World Philatelic Exhibition in Singapore ^[2] .

The collection has been published annually since 1963. Under the title "Soviet Collector" published 28 issues; with No. 29 (in 1993) comes out under the name “Collector” as the assignee of the previously published “Soviet Collector”. In some years, after the renaming, the double numbers of the annual were published: 31–32, 34–35 (published in 2000 ^[1] ), 36–37, 38–39, 40–41 and 42–43.

Below is the output data for each issue, which will be supplemented as appropriate information is found:

1963 Compilation

From 1925 to 1932, a monthly magazine was published under the same name in the USSR . In continuation of its traditions, the new collection, which first appeared in 1963, was called upon to become a full-fledged philatelic publication, on the pages of which information on the most important events in the life of collectors of the country would be published, research papers would be published, and the experience of collection work in the Soviet Union and abroad was generalized.

The initiative group at the Moscow City Society of Collectors stood at the origins of the collection, which at that time was the advanced organized part of the Soviet philatelists and adherents of other basic types of collecting. In various cities of the USSR, then there were more than one hundred city and regional societies, uniting about 200 thousand collectors, and therefore the need for such philatelic publications was felt very sharply ^[4] .

To prepare the "Soviet Collector" a public editorial board was formed. The collection was prepared for publication at the State Publishing House of Literature on Communications and Radio (Svyazizdat), put on the set on February 20, 1963, and signed for publication on July 10 of the same year. It was printed on paper in 70 × 90/16 format, in a paperback, with a print run of 15,000 copies.

In an appeal to readers, which opened the first issue, it was said ^[5] :

The public editorial board of the "Soviet Collector" included a number of well-known and experienced philatelists:

• B. Stalbaum - Executive Editor,
• Members of the Editorial Board:
  • V. Bogdanov,
  • P. Disson (Executive Secretary),
  • L. Lepeshinsky (chairman of the IGOK),
  • M. Milkin ,
  • D. Moshnyagin ,
  • M. Nero,
  • V. Skripitsyn (Deputy Executive Editor),
  • E. Feinstein .

The editorial office was located at the MGOK: Moscow , K-9, st. Gorky , 12, Moscow City Society of Collectors, Public Editorial ^[5] .

• Soviet collector // Large Philatelic Dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas, P. F. Mazur, I. N. Merkulov, I. A. Morosanov, Yu. K. Myakota, S. A. Panasyan, Yu. M. Rudnikov, M. B. Slutsky, V. A. Jacobs; under the general. ed. N.I. Vladinets and V.A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communications, 1988 .-- 320 p. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-256-00175-2 .

• "Soviet Collector" // Philatelic Dictionary / Comp. O. Ya. Basin. - M .: Communication, 1968 .-- 164 p.

• The magazine "Soviet Collector" (neopr.) . Articles on philately . Collector. - Articles on philately from the collection "Soviet Collector". Date of treatment April 11, 2009. Archived February 13, 2012.