Overprint on the 1st issue.
Children are the builders of the future. Typographic overprint of a new denomination on the stamps of the first All-Union issue of the Children’s Commission under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
The Commission for the Improvement of Children’s Lives under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Established by a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee dated February 10, 1921, on the initiative of F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Cheka (Chairman of the Children’s Commission of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in 1921–1923), in connection with the sharp increase in child homelessness that occurred as a result of the Civil War of 1917–1922. Its tasks included overall supervision of the protection of children’s life and health, assistance to institutions responsible for these matters, and monitoring the implementation of resolutions of directive bodies on issues of child protection and providing them with everything necessary. The Commission’s funds were formed from special levies, lotteries, voluntary donations, etc.
On September 25, 1938, by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Commission was abolished in connection with the dissolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, as well as with the overcoming of mass child homelessness.