List of people on stamps of Abkhazia

This is a partial list of people featured on postage stamps of Abkhazia. These stamps are mainly issued for collectors.a The dates given are the dates of issue.

There are also illegal stamps issued by "opportunistic printing companies acting like Abkhazians":

Notes

  1. ^ Postage stamps of Abkhazia are not recognized by the Universal Postal Union and can only be used for postage inside Abkhazia.[3]
  2. ^ These stamps, issued as a pair – a play on MarxLenin – do not appear in catalogues of Abkhazian stamps, and were perhaps issued by opportunistic companies pretending to act on behalf of Abkhazia.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Russians in Abkhazia". Former Soviet Union Postage Stamps Catalogue. http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/abkhazia/1995/ab88-1b.html. 
  2. ^ "120th Birth Anniversary of D. Gulia". Former Soviet Union Postage Stamps Catalogue. http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/abkhazia/1994/ab23.html. 
  3. ^ a b c d "Philatelists Just Wanna Have Fun". The New York Times. April 28, 1995. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DE1538F93BA15757C0A963958260. Retrieved December 13, 2010. 

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