Odessa in philately

The city of Odessa and its history are reflected on postage stamps and other philatelic materials of the pre-revolutionary time, the Soviet Union and independent Ukraine .

The USSR and Ukraine Post issued a lot of postage stamps , artistic labeled and unmarked postal envelopes and one-sided postcards with the original stamp , the subject of which was connected with Odessa.

In 1992-1994, pharmacies were used in the postal system of the city.

Collection materials on Odessa topics also include various calendar , franking and special postmarks .

January 13, 1879 in the Odessa district of the Kherson province opened zemstvo post . Mail was forwarded from Odessa to the towns of the county twice a week. January 1, 1881 the work of the Zemstvo mail was discontinued, but resumed in 1888, while the forwarding of private correspondence became free ^[1] .

  Pre-Revolutionary Period

To pay for the delivery of private correspondence, zemstvo postage stamps of the Odessa district of the Kherson province were issued; denominations of stamps - 2 kopecks for paying for sending parcels and 5 kopecks for simple letters . The stamps depict the provincial and county coats of arms ^[1] .

  The Period of the Ukrainian Power

In August 1918, the administration of the Ukrainian State decided to print on the stamps of the Russian Empire from its own stocks a control sign - the trident of St. Volodymyr . It was impossible to do this centrally in a civil war . Therefore, overprints were applied by local authorities simultaneously in all postal districts, including the Odessa postal district.

Stamps of the Polish office in Odessa

In 1919, the Polish office in Odessa issued special postage stamps to pay for the forwarded correspondence, which was an overprint of the word "Odessa" ("Odessa") on Polish postage stamps ^[2] .

  Soviet period

Odessa is devoted to a number of postage stamps of the USSR .

One of the stamps, published in March 1944 in the series “ Hero Cities ”, depicts the medal “For the Defense of Odessa” , established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on December 22, 1942 ( TsFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 885) . The 1961 postage stamp from the series “The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, dedicated to the defense of Odessa in 1941, depicts an attacking sailor ( TsFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 2612) . The 20th anniversary of the liberation of Odessa was dedicated to the 1964 stamp with the image of a sailor with a gun on the background of the lighthouse of the Odessa port ( TsFA [ ITC Marka ] No. 3024) . In December 1965, in the series “Heroes of the Soviet Union”, a postage stamp was published depicting the defense of Odessa, the modern look of the port and the Zolotaya Zvezda medal ( TsFA [ ITC Marka ] No. 3295) ^[3] .

• Postage stamps of the USSR on which Odessa is immortalized
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  1944: medal "For the Defense of Odessa"
  ( CFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 885)

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  1965: Hero City of Odessa ( CFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 3295)

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  1982: The Black Sea . Odessa. Vorontsov lighthouse

One of the postage stamps ( TsFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 4330) in a 1974 series dedicated to the artist I.K. Aivazovsky depicts a reproduction of his painting “View of Odessa on a Moonlit Night” (1846) ^[4] .

• Postage stamp of the USSR with a reproduction of the painting by I. K. Aivazovsky "View of Odessa on a moonlit night" (1974)
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  Quicklime stamp ( CFA [ ITC "Marka" ] No. 4330)

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  Quartbloc with the first type of coupon

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  Quartbloc with a coupon of the second type

  Modern Ukraine

In 1992-1994, in connection with the transition to a new currency ( Carbovans ) and a constant increase in shipping tariffs , the Odessa post office used its own pharmacies.

During the years of Soviet power and Ukrainian independence, in total, and as of 2015, was released at least? Labeled and unlabelled art envelopes with Odessa plots, including? envelopes of the USSR and? - Ukraine.

Envelopes depict monuments and architecture of Odessa . Some envelopes are dedicated to the anniversaries of Odessa enterprises and organizations. Another topic of the envelopes was the current events held in the city - philatelic exhibitions, sports competitions, cultural festivals.

During the years of Soviet power and Ukrainian independence, a very large number of artistic open letters, postcards, postcards were issued, which mainly depict the monuments and architecture of Odessa , as well as its inhabitants, prominent people, various events, urban symbols.

In 1975, a postcard with an original stamp was issued dedicated to the heroic defense of Odessa ^[5] .

There are a large number of special cancellations of the USSR and Ukraine directly dedicated to Odessa and events in its history, for example ^[6] :

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There are also special cancellations dedicated to various events that are not directly related to Odessa, but which contain the name of Odessa as a place of cancellation. Among them are special cancellations on the occasion of the Writing Week , various holidays ( New Year , Valentine's Day , Easter ) and others.

Odessa organizations and institutions for the simplified payment of forwarding of outgoing correspondence used and apply franking stamps, which serve as a good illustration of Odessa topics in philately.

• Gontzaryuk I.V., Ripela D.V. Catalog of postage stamps of Ukraine (1918-2007). - 2nd view. - Divari, 2008 .-- 217 p. (Ukrainian)
• Directory of domestic signs of postage: Sat. from 3 volumes - M. , 1991. - T. 2. - P. 4, 27-30. - (Appendix to the journal. "Philately of the USSR" and "Philately").
• Lobko G.P. Pharmacist issues of Ukraine 1992-1999 Directory. - K. , 2007 .-- 480 s. (See the English version of the catalog. (Link unavailable - history ) Retrieved March 10, 2018. )

• 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. (The electronic publication is based on the specialized catalog-directory “Postage Stamps of Russia and the USSR (1857-1991) ..." by V. Yu. Soloviev, published since 1996.) (Retrieved March 7, 2016)
• The catalog of artistic marked envelopes of the USSR for 1953-1991 on the site "konvert.web.ur.ru" (Retrieved March 7, 2016)
• Official site of the publishing house “Mark Ukrainy” (Ukrainian) (English) (Retrieved March 7, 2016)