Lodz 75

Lodz got the right to host the next all-Polish philatelic exhibition , because during the time of the Polish People's Republic (Poland) the philatelic movement here developed significantly: the local city philatelic organization united at that time 8 thousand people and quarterly published the authoritative Bulletin of Philatelists ( Łódzki Biuletyzny Biuletyn Fillen ) ^[1] .

At the head of the general management of the exhibition was a member of the Political Bureau of the PUWP , deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the NDP , Minister of Culture and Art ^[1] .

The organizing committee of the exhibition also included ^[1] :

• Janusz Pekut - chairman of the committee for the preparation of the exhibition,
• Yan Zaborovsky - chairman of the anniversary committee,
• Zbigniew Zieliński - Chairman of the Polish Union of Philatelists,
• Caesar Rudzinsky - Chairman of the PSF Board of Cooperation with Foreign Countries.

The grand opening of the exhibition was held by the and the chairman of the city council of Lodz Jerzy Lovents ^[1] .

The exhibition was attended by guests from the People's Republic of Bulgaria , the Hungarian People's Republic , the German Democratic Republic , the Soviet Union , the Socialist Republic of Romania , the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic , including ^[1] :

• I. A. Morosanov - Deputy Chairman of the All-Union Society of Philatelists ,
• Ladislav Dvořáček ( Czech. Ladislav Dvořáček ) - Vice-President of the International Federation of Philately , Chairman of the ,
• Doncho Stanchev and Hristo Nikolchev - members of the Presidium of the ,
• Hein Ullmann and Wolf-Dietrich Sprung are the chairmen of the Karlmarksstadt and Rostock district branches of the Union of philatelists of the GDR ( German: Philatelistenverband der DDR ),
• László Soós ( Hungarian; László Soós ) - Chairman of the All-Hungarian Philatelic Union (MABEOS; Hungarian. Magyar Bélyeggyűjtők Országos Szövetsége - MABÉOSZ ),
• Razvan Panaitescu - Deputy Chairman of

The philatelic exhibition was located in three institutions of the city of Lodz ^[1] :

• collections of honorary and main competitive classes - in the ,
• collections of young philatelists - in the city House of Culture,
• foreign and non-competitive expositions - at the Center for the Promotion of Art of the Park named after Senkevich.

Over 1000 collections were evaluated and half of them were selected to participate in the exhibition. Exhibitors were allocated three to five stands; received ten stands in the official class ^[1] .

A significant number of thematic collections had a political orientation, which was reflected in their names, for example ^[1] :

• " Marxism-Leninism is always alive,"
• “That there never will be war”
• "We blame fascism, "
• “Our road to victory” (on the joint struggle of the Soviet and Polish armies in World War II ), etc.

Ten exhibits were dedicated to Leninians , and one of the best collections on this subject was called the collection “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” by Edmund Kupsky ( Poznan ) ^[1] .

The best collections of Polish subjects were sent to the 1st World Exhibition of Thematic Philately ^[1] "Temabelga", which was held at the end of 1975 in Brussels ^[3] .

The collection of the oldest Polish postman Stanislav Dolinsky, which had previously been awarded gold medals of various exhibitions ^[1], occupied a prominent place in the class of honor.

The exhibition showed a lot of interesting philatelic materials of the home-made period , letters from Nazi concentration camps , airmail stamps . The collection of Jan Zaborovsky presented modern and ancient stamps and special cancellation marks of Hungary . Of the foreign collections, the exposition of the Soviet philatelist L. L. Kolosov ( Minsk ) on the history of the Belarusian post was of interest ^[1] .

The following events were also held as part of the exhibition program ^[1] :

• ceremonial meeting and exhibition in honor of the silver anniversary of the PSF at the ,
• Awarding of Polish philatelists with state orders,
• PSF day
• days of large districts of Poland,
• woman's day
• Young Philatelist Day ^[1] and Postage Stamp Day (November 30, 1975) ^[2]
• meetings of the members of the Red Cross club,
• symposia of the historical research commission of the PSF board,
• meeting of the exhibition board of directors (instructive, educational),
• meeting of representatives of socialist countries on the rules of exhibitions of SocialFilex ,
• the signing of a cooperation agreement between the philatelic unions of Hungary and Poland,
• meeting with the deputy chairman of the city council Jan Moravec,
• meeting with the head of the district Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs, Jozef Gronostai,
• meeting with Janusz Krul, director , a press and book distribution organization,
• exchange of experience in the Lodz Philatelist Club ^[1] .

In November 1975, a postage stamp and block were issued by the Polish Post Office to commemorate the exhibition. The block brand in design repeated the tooth brand and had the same face value - 4.50 zł . A reproduction of the painting “Lodz” by V. Strzheminsky (1893-1952) was used as an image on them. Above was given an inscription in Polish : "Lodz-75. XII All-Polish Philatelic Exhibition ", below -" 25th Anniversary of the Polish Union of Philatelists ". The author of the design of the stamp and block, printed with offset , was the artist Z. Stasik. The circulation of the brand amounted to 2 million, and the block - 700 thousand copies. The issue was accompanied by envelopes of the first day ^[4] .

In addition, one-sided postcards with the original stamp , postcards and an envelope were issued , and special cancellations were also organized. The catalog of the exhibition ^{[2] [≡]} was published .

On the occasion of the exhibition, a commemorative medal was also prepared, on the back of which the words of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the NDP Petr Yaroshevich were placed ^[1] :

• XII Ogólnopolska Wystawa Filatelistyczna Łódź 75: 22 listopada - 5 grudnia 1975: katalog / red. H. Dolata; Polski Związek Filatelistów. - [Łódź]: Komitet Organizacyjny Wystawy, 1975. - 64 s. - OCLC 910006216 . (Polish) ^{[^]}