<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_75th_anniversary_of_the_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_(ongoing_series_of_stamped_envelopes)" title="The 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (ongoing series of stamped envelopes)">The 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (an ongoing series of postal stationery envelopes)</a>. <br>The 100th birth anniversary of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Yegorova" class="extiw" title="w:Anna Yegorova">Anna Timofeeva</a></b> (née Yegorova, 1916—2009), a pilot of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces" class="extiw" title="w:Soviet Air Forces">Red Army Air Force</a>, a Hero of the Soviet Union. <br>The illustrated postal stationery envelope with commemorative stamp, Russia, 23 September 2016. PTC Marka Catalogue No. 284/кор-16. Envelope paper VBM (ВБМ) with watermarks “ПОЧТА РОССИИ”. Offset printing. Size of the envelope: 110×220 mm. Print run: 1,000,000. <br>The non-denominated stamp of the ongoing series: the red star, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ribbon_of_Saint_George" class="extiw" title="w:ribbon of Saint George">ribbon of Saint George</a>, numerals “75”. <br><b>The illustration:</b> the portrait of Anna Timofeeva (Yegorova) with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2" class="extiw" title="w:Ilyushin Il-2">Ilyushin Il-2</a> attack bomber in the background; a Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union. <br>Pictorial cancellation: Moscow, 23 September 2016, Catalogue of PTC Marka No 2016/288-ш.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Post" class="extiw" title="w:Russian Post">Russian Post</a>, Publishing and Trade Centre "Marka" (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80_%C2%AB%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%C2%BB" class="extiw" title="ru:Издательско-торговый центр «Марка»">ИТЦ «Марка»</a>). The design of the envelope by R. Komsa.
2016-09-23
From a personal collection.