The design of the 1912 Poltava Uyezd zemstvo post stamps, depicting a village street in the village of Hetmanshchyna, Vasylkiv Uyezd, was reproduced as a photo-facsimile at the Kulzhenko printing house in Kyiv. The typographic issue was printed at Podzemsky’s typolithography in Poltava, and the numerals were applied with a handstamp at the Zemstvo Board.
On March 1, 1903, the Poltava Uyezd zemstvo post (Poltava Governorate) was opened. Mail was dispatched twice a week from the uyezd center, the city of Poltava, to 17 volosts of the uyezd. To pay for private correspondence, zemstvo postage stamps were used: ordinary letters were paid with 3-kopeck stamps, and registered letters with 6-kopeck stamps. They are very diverse in printing method and purpose (official use, for ordinary and registered wrappers, money correspondence, etc.).
In 1908, commemorative stamps were issued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava.
Many issues depict the uyezd coat of arms. The stamps were printed at private printing houses, and from 1905 at the EZGB.
Imperforate stamps were of unofficial origin and were intended for collectors. The stamps were canceled with circular, oval, and rectangular postmarks.
1 Kopeck 1912.
Poltava. Poltava Zemstvo Post.
