History of Russian Customs Service.
Date of issue: 25th September 2002.
Designer: Yury Artsimenev
Paper: coated
Printing process: offset
Perforation: frame 12 : 12 1/4
Size of a stamp: 37 x 26 mm.
Size of the Souvenir Sheet: 115 x 135 mm.
Printing run: 200.000
Michel catalogue numbers: Block47 (1020-1022).
2.00 (R). multicoloured. Customs castle and bourse in Archangelsk (reproducing
an early 18th century engraving).
3.00 (R). multicoloured. Customs officers in St. Petersburg (reproducing an
1830s painting by an unknown artist).
5.00 (R). multicoloured. Kalanchovsky customs warehouse in Kalanchovsky
square, mid-1800s (lithographic picture, State Musum of History).
The margins of the Souvenir Sheet bear labels: tall ships at the
Archangelsk port, reproducing an early 18th century engraving; officers of
the Foreign Trade Department, Russian Ministry of Finance, 1830s; customs
officers clash with smugglers (reproducting a painting by V. Khudyakov,
mid-1800s, tretyakov Gallery).