Overprint on the 1st issue.
Children are the builders of the future. Typographic overprint of the new denomination on the stamps of the first all-Union issue of the Children’s Commission under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK).
The Commission for Improving the Lives of Children under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). Established by a decree of the VTsIK dated February 10, 1921, on the initiative of F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Cheka (Chairman of the VTsIK Children’s Commission in 1921–1923), in response to a sharp rise in child homelessness that occurred as a result of the Civil War of 1917–1922. Its tasks included overall guidance in safeguarding children’s lives and health, assistance to institutions responsible for these matters, and supervision of the implementation of resolutions issued by directive bodies on child protection and ensuring children were provided with 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 with the overcoming of mass child homelessness.