93th birth anniversary of the founder of the Communist party and the Soviet state <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" class="extiw" title="w:Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>.<br>The portrait of Vladimir Lenin after the painting <i>Vladimir Lenin on a Tribune 1 May 1920</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Brodsky" class="extiw" title="w:Isaak Brodsky">Isaak Brodsky</a> (oil on canvas, 116×89 cm, 1927) <sup id="cite_ref-note_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-note-1">[1]</a></sup>. <br>The stamp of the Soviet Union, 4 kopecks, 30 March 1963, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_stamp_catalogue" class="extiw" title="w:Soviet Union stamp catalogue">CPA Catalogue</a> No 2845, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_catalog" class="extiw" title="w:Michel catalog">Michel</a> No 2738a, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_catalogue" class="extiw" title="w:Scott catalogue">Scott</a> No 2727, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvert_et_Tellier" class="extiw" title="w:Yvert et Tellier">Yvert</a> No 2652. Intaglio printing. Colours: brown, red. Perforation: comb 12×12½. Size of the stamp: 37×52 mm. Print run: 3,000,000.<br>There are known the varieties of the stamp: the stamps on white and light pink paper, unperforated stamps; as well there is known the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_proof_(philately)" class="extiw" title="w:Die proof (philately)">proof</a> with the year of issue <i>1962</i> and the denomination <i>50 kopeks</i>.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Communications_(Soviet_Union)" class="extiw" title="w:Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union)">Ministry of Communications of the USSR</a>. The design of the stamp by S. Pomansky.<br>Scanned by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dmitry_Ivanov" title="User:Dmitry Ivanov">Dmitry Ivanov</a>.</div>
30 March 1963<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1963-03-30T00:00:00Z/11</div>
From a personal collection.