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
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 12:11½
Issued
900,000
Tags
Space
Description
The souvenir sheet. Block size 7.5 x 10 cm In the block of three stamps, the combined image of the lunar sphere: the
    the
  • a pennant with a bas-relief portrait of Lenin and the text "50 years of the USSR", mounted on the lunar Rover. The earth, the Moon, the trajectory of the flight of the automatic station "Luna-21" (running 08.01.1973) and the lander
  • the
  • "Lunokhod-2" on the background panorama of the lunar surface
  • the
  • center for deep space communications; the external appearance of the antenna, inside view of the center - a process control operation self-propelled machine from the Ground. The trajectory of the automatic station "Luna-21" and the place of landing.


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

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
Strelnikov R.
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 11½
Issued
4,300,000
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
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