The local issue of 1920, caused by the revaluation of stamps in circulation at a ratio of 1:100, is a hand overprint in purple ink of the letter “r” on a pre-revolutionary Russian 1-kopeck savings stamp, as well as on Russian postage stamps of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 15, and 20 kopecks.
The establishment of the uyezd town of Danilov in the Yaroslavl Governorate was the result of an administrative reform carried out in Russia in the second half of the 18th century. On February 23, 1777, Empress Catherine II signed the decree “On the Establishment of the Yaroslavl Governorate,” whose first governor-general was the Privy Councillor Alexey Petrovich Melgunov.
A significant number of provisionals are associated with the Civil War of 1918–1922. At that time, stable central authority was absent across most of the country, many regions became independent, and, amid devastation and war, inflation was considerable. Frequent tariff changes and the inability to supply the postal network with stamps of the required denominations led to periodic revaluations of existing stocks in accordance with instructions from the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, which did not provide for any overprints. However, in some localities certain post offices nevertheless applied overprints to the revalued stamps being sold, or simply wrote on them by hand. All these stamps are characterized by an extremely simple overprinting technique.