70 years since the birth of Ernst Krenkel

    USSR  1973.05.20

    In issue: Stamp(s): 1   

    Issued in: sheets of 50 (5*10) stamps

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 4123   Yvert: 3935   Scott: 4084  

    Perforation type: 11 ½x11 ½

    Subject:

    4 kopecks. Ernst Krenkel* with station "North Pole-1"** on background

    Additional:

    *Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (Russian: Эрнст Теодо́рович Кре́нкель) (December 24 (O.S. December 11), 1903, Tartu – December 8, 1971, Moscow) was a Soviet Arctic explorer, doctor of geographical sciences (1938), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).

    **About station "North Pole-1" You can read at description of the issue of 1955