Preview of Stamps Catalogue CD : VOLUME 2

ZEMSTVOS (Local Russian) ISSUES, overview

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Akhtyrka.. Berdiansk - Bielozersk.. Borisoglebsk - Borivichi.. Byezhetsk - Chembar.. Dukhovschin - Fatezh..Gdov - Glazov..Gryazovets - Irbit..Kholm - Khvalynsk-Kolomna - Konstantinograd-Kuznetsk - Laishev-Lubny - Luga-Morhansk - Nikolsk-Okhansk - Opochka-Ostrov - Pavlograd-Piryatin - Podolsk-Poltava - Porkhov-Pudozh - Rostov-Sapozhok - Saransk-Shadrinsk - Shatsk-Spassk - Staraya Russa-Tver - Urzhum-Velikii Ustyug - Velsk-Yegorevsk - Yekaterinburg-Zadonsk - Zemlyansk-Zolotoshna

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In imperial Russia, numerous local postal services existed. The imperial post didn't serve all the towns, the so-called 'ZEMSTVOS' rural postal services filled this gap. In total, about 3400 different stamps were issued.

If anybody posesses pictures of Zemstvo stamps that are not yet in my catalogue, please contact me!

The following disticts issued its own stamps:
  Akhtyrka, Alatyr, Alexandria, Ananiev, Ardatov, Arzamas, Atkarsk
  Bakhmut, Balashov, Belebei, Berdiansk, Bielozersk,
  Bobrov, Bogorodsk, Boguchar, Borisoglebsk, Borovichi,
  Bronnitsy, Bugulma, Buguruslan, Buzuluk, Byezhetsk,
  Chembar, Cherdyn, Cherepovets, Cherkask, Chern, Chistopol,
  Dankov, Demiansk, Dmitriev, Dmitrov, Dneprovsk, Donets,
  Dukhovschina,
  Fatezh,
  Gadyach, Gdov, Glazov, Gryazovets
  Irbit,
  Kadnikov, Kamyshlov, Kashira, Kasimov, Kazan, Kharkov,
  Kherson, Kholm, Khvalynsk, Kirillov, Kobelyaky, Kologriv,
  Kolomna, Konstantinograd, Korcheva, Kotelnich, Kozelets,
  Krapivna, Krasnoufimsk, Krasny, Kremenchug, Kungur, Kuznetsk
  Laishev, Lebedin, Lebedyan, Lgov, Livny, Lokhvitsa, Lubny,
  Luga
  Malmyzh, Maloarkhangelsk, Mariupol, Melitopol, Morshansk,
  Nikolsk, Nolinsk, Novaya Ladoga, Novgorod, Novomoskovsk,
  Novorzhev, Novouzensk,
  Odessa, Okhansk, Opochka, Orgeev, Osa, Ostashkov, Oster,
  Ostrogozhsk, Ostrov,
  Pavlograd, Penza, Pereslavl, Pereyaslav, Perm, Petrozavodsk,
  Piryatin, Podolsk, Poltava, Porkhov, Priluky, Pskov, Pudozh,
  Rostov, Ryazan, Ryazhsk, Rzhev,
  Samara, Sapozhok, Saransk, Sarapul, Saratov, Shadrinsk,
  Shatsk, Shchigry, Schlisselburg, Simferopol, Skopin, Smolensk,
  Solikamsk, Soroki, Spassk, Staraya Russa, Starobyelsk,
  Stavropol, Sudzha, Sumy, Syzran,
  Tambov, Tetyushi, Tikhvin, Tiraspol, Toropets, Totma, Tula,
  Tver,
  Urzhum, Ustsysolsk, Ustyuzhna,
  Valdai, Valki, Vasil, Velikii Ustyug, Velsk, Verkhnedneprovsk,
  Verkhotur, Vesegonsk, Vetluga,  Viatka, Volchansk, Volsk,
  Yarensk, Yassy, Yegorevsk, Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinoslav,
  Yelets, Yelisavetgrad,
  Zadonsk, Zemlyansk, Zenkov, Zmeinogorsk, Zolotonosha

In general these stamps are rare, non of them are common; age (in their days these stamps were not collected much) and 2 world wars have left their traces....

Image obtained thanks to Bill Claghorn
(Zemstvo stamp used together with Russian stamp)

Thanks to Bill Claghorn, for giving me many of the images presented here!

Warning: in the 1890's many of the rarer Zemstvo stamps were forged in London and Berlin (information thanks to Brian Hickling), I have no further information right now.