1st issue.
January 15, 1871 — the Zemstvo post of Kungur Uyezd (Perm Governorate) was opened. Mail was sent from the uyezd center, the town of Kungur, to most volost administrations along the Proselochny and Goroblagodatsky routes twice a week.
From January 1, 1890, Zemstvo postage stamps of 1 and 2 kopeks were used to pay for the delivery of private letters and packets. The stamps bear the images of the provincial and uyezd coats of arms. In 1891, 5- and 10-kopeck stamps were issued, and in 1893–96 new 1- and 2-kopeck stamps were issued. All of them were printed by private printing houses. The stamps were cancelled with oval handstamps. From 1898, all correspondence was forwarded free of charge.
1st issue.
October 23, 1889 — the Zemstvo Assembly resolved: “As an experiment for one year, to introduce the collection of a postal tax for the benefit of the Zemstvo on the following grounds: for ordinary letters, 2 kopeks per packet (letter) …; for money packets, 2 kopeks per packet (letter) and 1 kopek per ruble of the sums remitted. As regards the procedure for collecting the fees, to establish the following rules:
- all private letters and packets must be prepaid with special Zemstvo postage stamps prepared by the Board;
- the stamps are prepared in denominations of 1 and 2 kopeks.”
October 16, 1890 — the Kungur Board reported to the Zemstvo Assembly that “from January 1 … a fee was charged for the forwarding by Zemstvo post of parcels of private persons, as well as private correspondence.” In the same year, 1890, the first stamps of the Kungur Zemstvo post, in denominations of 1 and 2 kopeks, were put into circulation. The design basis of the stamp was chosen as an oval decorated with a crown, and inside it the uyezd coat of arms consisting of two parts: at the top, the coat of arms of the Perm Governorate; at the bottom, ears of grain pouring from a cornucopia, symbolizing the “fruitfulness around the said town.”