Perforation type: 12x12

Subject:

A stamp with a letter value "V", intended for sending correspondence up to 50 grams on the territory of Ukraine.
On the day of issue, the cost of the stamp was 9 UAH.

The stamp depicts three Cossacks - Gray, Oko and Tur from the cartoon series "How the Cossacks..." *. Behind them, on a hill, there are two windmills, which appear fragmentarily several times in the cartoon episodes.

The release of the stamp is also interesting for the use of modern technologies, allowing the stamp to come to life with the help of a special application for children WoWBox AR. It is enough to launch the application on your smartphone, bring the camera to the stamp and the Cossacks and Christmas greetings from them appear on the screen of the device are show up.

The central upper place of the stamp sheet is used for a coupon that completely repeats the image of the stamp, but without writing the country, year and name of the issue.

Additional:

"Like Cossacks ..." is a series of cartoons filmed in the USSR at the Kievnauchfilm studio by director Vladimir Dakhno. Later, after the collapse of the USSR, the cycle was continued in independent Ukraine at the Ukranimafilm and Baraban studios.

There are no dialogues in cartoons, with the exception of the sometimes quoted introductory or concluding text "from the author" - the action takes place in the form of intuitive scenes. All cartoons are short films, their duration does not exceed 20 minutes.

The main characters of the series are three Zaporozhye Cossacks: a brute, a short man and a strong man (according to the script, they are named Gray, Oko and Tur, respectively, but in the series itself they are always nameless).

Released series and series on the state of the stamp :

1 How the Cossacks cooked kulesh, 1967

2 How the Cossacks played football, 1970

3 How Cossacks Rescued Brides, 1973

4 How the Cossacks bought salt, 1975

5 How the Cossacks became Olympians, 1978

6 How Cossacks helped the Musketeers, 1979

7 How the Cossacks walked at a wedding, 1984

8 How Cossacks Met Aliens, 1987

9 How the Cossacks played hockey, 1995

10 The series “Cossacks. Football ", 2016

11 The series “Cossacks. Around the World ", 2018

Topics: Mills in Art Windmills