COSMONAUTICS and SPACE AGE
Kniga cover
MGOK
New Year of Space Age
Mezhkniga
First in Space - Sputnik
Monument to Explorers of Space
serviced cover to USA
10th anniversary of Sputnik
FDOI
15th anniversary of Space Age
15th anniversary of Space Age
15th anniversary of Space Age
FDOI
this cover was issued in 1974
FDOI
20th anniversary of Space Age
20th anniversary of Space Age
20th anniversary of Space Age
FDC
20th anniversary of Space Age
20th anniversary of Space Age
20th anniversary of Space Age
Ex-Libris cachet
FDC
25th anniversary of Space Age
25th anniversary of Space Age
20th anniversary
20th anniversary
30th anniversary of Space Age
Pskov "club" covers have quite a weird appearance in modern astrophilately. In most cases they look like being overprinted using serviced covers as most postmarks are not correlated to the specific events. Those covers mainly commemorate Gagarin flight, Space age and Cosmonautics day, though some other events can be found. Many of the covers are really messy, heading in several directions at the same time. It looks like that was a private venture of several people (namely Konstantin Zaytsev from Nizhny Novgorod and Valery Gulkov from Pskov) and not real “club” issues. I consider them awkward creatures but nevertheless like them for their unusual outfit.
ICBM destruction
ICBM destruction
Fleetwood "serviced" cover with forged Baikonur postmark
35th anniversary of Space Age
35th anniversary
35th anniversary
45th anniversary
45th anniversary
overprinted cover blue overprint "Plesetsk cosmodrome" and additional rubber stamp - Conversion Program
overprinted cover
overprinted cover
Spacemen monument
50th anniversary of the 1st launch
postmark not related
postmark not related
postmark not related
postmark not related
50th anniversary of space age
50th anniversary of Space Age
50th anniversary of Space Age
50th anniversary of Space Age
Andrian Nikolaev Memorial Museum
Andrian Nikolaev Memorial Museum
55th anniversary of Space Age
55 years of Plesetsk Cosmodrome
40th anniversary of Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology
50th anniversary of Conquerors of Space monument
50th anniversary of Conquerors of Space monument
V. Tereshkova home-village
Vostochny launch site First Civil Cosmodrome
Museum of Cosmonautics note the wrong postmark date - 13.04.2017
Museum of Cosmonautics note the wrong postmark date - 13.04.2017
signed by A. Laveykin
signed by A. Laveykin
60th anniversary of Space Age
60th anniversary of Space Age
60th anniversary of Space Age
Roscosmos flown cover signed by members of Expedition 53
60th anniversary of Space Age
60th anniversary of Space Age
60th anniversary of Space Age
50th anniversary of Cosmonaut Alley
50th anniversary of Cosmonautics museum in Star City
50th anniversary of Cosmonautics museum in Star City
60th anniversary of Plesetsk Cosmodrome
60th anniversary of Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Plesetsk Cosmodrome
private design
reverse of the cover with designers signatures
50th anniversary
ISRAEL in SPACE .... 1961
One of the Israeli 'fairy tales' targeted to impress Egypt was of first Israeli space rocket launched on July 5, 1961. Widely reported in Israeli press the rocket called Shawit 2 or Shavit II (Heb. - 'שביט ב) was nothing more than a simple solid propellant single stage body similar to early meteorological rockets. Obviously there was no kind of space achievement but pure propaganda. All the details were highly classified till 1980s. To commemorate the event, Israeli Stamp Club issued special covers postmarked on the date of launch - 5.7.1961.
