Every kopek from 1547 to 2024

1 Kopeck 1872.
Bogorodsk. Rural Post of Bogorodsky Uyezd.

1 Kopeck 1872. Bogorodsk. Rural Post of Bogorodsky Uyezd
Bogorodsk. Rural Post of Bogorodsky Uyezd.
теги: [богородск]

1 January 1867 — the Zemstvo post of Bogorodsky Uyezd (Moscow Governorate) was opened. Mail was dispatched from the uyezd administrative center, the town of Bogorodsk (now Noginsk), twice a week to all volosts of the uyezd.

Until 1 July 1867 only official (state) correspondence was accepted, and from that date private mail as well. To pay for forwarding private correspondence, Zemstvo stamped envelopes and Zemstvo stamped wrappers were used, and from 1871 Zemstvo postage stamps too. Envelopes and stamps were divided into "prepaid" (blue) and "postage due" (red). Stamped envelopes had denominations of 5 or 10 kopecks, wrappers 5 kopecks. Postage stamps issued from 1871 to 1896 had denominations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 20 kopecks. Stamps issued before 1888 bear images of the governorate and uyezd coats of arms. Stamps were cancelled in ink (by pen strokes) and with various circular handstamps. The post office was closed in 1898.

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