SOVIET UNION / СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК.
Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka.
Karymsky Volcano.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 30.11.1965.
Face value: 12 Soviet kopek.
Design: Lev M. Sharov.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 4,000,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 52 mm.
Catalogs
-
AFA No. 3116.
- Michel No. 3139.
- Scott No. 3118.
- StampWorld No. 2938.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3211.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3034.
- Zagorsky No. 3190.
Karymsky (Russian: Карымская сопка) is an active stratovolcano of the eastern ridge of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Its absolute height is 1,469 m (4,820 ft), and its top is a regular truncated cone. It is a very active volcano, more than twenty eruptions have been recorded since 1852.
No comments:
Post a Comment