SOVIET UNION

 
SOVIET UNION / СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК.

Antarctic Drift of "Mikhail Somov".
Antarctica map.
Souvenir sheet issued on 10.10.1986.
Face value: 50 Soviet kopek.
Design: Aleksandr Kernosov.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 800,000 copies.
Size: 70 x 90 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 
- Michel No. BL189.
- Scott No. 5498.
- StampWorld No. 5445.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS5695.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF188.
- Zagorski No. BL192.

The “Mikhail Somov” (‘Михаил Сомов’) is a Research/Survey Vessel of 138 m (453 ft) length, built in 1975 in Kherson Shipyard (Ukraine, Soviet Union), now sailing under the flag of Russia. It is based in Arkhangelsk. On March 15, 1985, during the supply operations of the Soviet Russkaya Antarctic Station, the ship was trapped in the ice 120 km (394 mi) from the coast, and it did not get out of that situation until July 26. The stamp commemorates that fact.