Republic of Karelia, Centenary

Perforation: Harrow  

Subject:

100 rubles.

The sheet is decorated with typical Karelian embroidery and graphic images of architectural monuments and symbols of Karelian nature.

An eight-winged windmill, which is part of the Kizhi Museum-Reserve, was chosen as one of the symbols.

Additional:

*The Republic of Karelia (Russian: Респу́блика Каре́лия, tr. Respublika Kareliya, Karelian: Karjalan tazavaldu; Finnish: Karjalan tasavalta; Veps: Karjalan Tazovaldkund), or Karelia (Russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karelian: Karjal), is a federal subject of Russia (a republic), located in the northwest of Russia. Its capital is the city of Petrozavodsk. Its population in 2010 was 643,548.

The modern Karelian Republic was founded as an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of June 27, 1923, and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of July 25, 1923, from the Karelian Labor Commune.

From 1940 to 1956, it was known as the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the union republics in the Soviet Union. In 1956, it was once again an autonomous republic and remains part of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

**Northern Kizhi mills are one of the most famous and well-preserved mills in the country.
There are two similar mills in the museum - on Voroniy Island and from the Volkostrov village.

Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 135x88