Self-propelled apparatus "Lunokhod-2"

Self-propelled apparatus "Lunokhod-2"
Catalog #
4226
Date of Issue
1973 12 April
Denomination
6k
Color
Dark blue, cherry red, yellow
Artist
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 11½
Issued
4,300,000
Tags
Space
Description
Soviet self-propelled apparatus "Lunokhod-2" in the background of the moon with the designation (a five-pointed star), the place of his landing (16.01.1973) on the Eastern edge of the Sea of Clarity, inside the crater Lemonnier. A pennant with a bas-relief portrait of Lenin and the text "50 years of the USSR", delivered at the moon. Lunar Rover on the descent module of the automatic station "Luna-21" in the time it approaches the moon. The earth, the Moon and the trajectory of the station.


Postage stamps the same series: Cosmonautics day
Artificial Earth satellite Intercosmos
Artificial Earth satellite Intercosmos
Catalog #
4225
Date of Issue
1973 12 April
Denomination
6k
Color
Purple-brown, olive
Artist
Strelnikov R.
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 11½:12
Issued
4,200,000
Tags
Space

Cosmonautics day (dark green block)
Cosmonautics day (dark green block)
Catalog #
4227
Date of Issue
1973 12 April
Denomination
20+20+20k
Color
Dark green, cherry, gold
Artist
Strelnikov R.
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 12:11½
Issued
900,000
Tags
Space

Day of cosmonautics (the dark purple block)
Day of cosmonautics (the dark purple block)
Catalog #
4228
Date of Issue
1973 12 April
Denomination
20+20+20k
Color
Dark purple, brownish-Carmine, Golden
Artist
Strelnikov R.
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 12:11½
Issued
900,000
Tags
Space
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