Surcharge on the 1st issue.
Children are the builders of the future. Typographic surcharge of a new denomination on stamps of the first all-Union issue of the Children’s Commission under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). Two surcharges: "5" and "1 kopeck gold".
Commission for Improving the Lives of Children under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). Established by a resolution of the VTsIK on February 10, 1921, on the initiative of Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Cheka (Chairman of the VTsIK Children’s Commission in 1921–1923), in connection with a sharp increase in child homelessness that occurred as a result of the Civil War of 1917–1922. Its tasks included overall leadership in protecting the life and health of children, assisting institutions responsible for these matters, and monitoring the implementation of resolutions of directive bodies on issues of child protection and ensuring that they had everything necessary. The Commission’s funds were formed through special levies, lotteries, voluntary donations, etc.
On September 25, 1938, by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Commission was abolished in connection with the dissolution of the VTsIK, as well as the overcoming of mass child homelessness.