Overprint on the 1st issue.
Children are the builders of the future. Typographic overprint 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).
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 connection with a sharp rise 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 ensuring that 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 decree 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.