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Date of issue: 14th March/12th May 1959



Designer: V. Zavyalov
Paper: ordinary
Printing process: offset
Perforation: line 12 1/4
Size: 40 x 30 mm
Sheet composition: No 2208, 2209 - 50 (5 x 10) stamps; No 2211 - 100 (10 x 10) stamps; No 2209, 2212, 2213 - 25 (5 x 5) stamps
Printing run: 1.500.000
Michel catalogue numbers: 2208-2213

40 K. black, blue, yellow and maroon. Portrait of A. S. Griboedov (1795-1829).(14th March)
40 K. light brown, brown and slate-violet. Portrait of A. N. Ostrovsky (1823-1886).(14th March)
40 K. brown, sepia and greenish yellow. Portrait of I. A. Krylov (1769-1844).(14th March)
40 K. blue-grey, black and brown-red. Portrait of A. P. Chekhov (1860-1904).(14th March)
40 K. black, olive-green and yellow. Portrait of N. V. Gogol (1809-1852).(27th April)
40 K. brown, violet, blue, green and yellow. Portrait of S. T. Aksakov (1791-1859).(12th May)


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