METHUSELAH ARCHIVE SOURCES / BOGOMOLETS-SOVIET-STAMP-1971

USSR 1971 commemorative postage stamp depicting Alexander A. Bogomolets, Hero of Socialist Labour

period print · 1971
type:period print
year:1971
citation:USSR Post. Commemorative postage stamp depicting Alexander A. Bogomolets, Hero of Socialist Labour, issued 24 May 1971 (after a portrait by Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko). CPA catalogue number 4003. Scanned from a private collection at 600 dpi by Commons user Matsievsky. Public domain.
LINK
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1971_CPA_4003_stamp_(Alexander_A._Bogomolets,_Hero_of_Socialist_Labour_(after_Anatoly_Yar-Kravchenko)).jpg
SUMMARY
Soviet commemorative postage stamp issued by USSR Post on 24 May 1971 (the 90th anniversary of Bogomolets's birth), catalogue number CPA 4003, depicting him as a Hero of Socialist Labour after a portrait by Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko. Scanned at 600 dpi from a private collection and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user Matsievsky. The Commons file record carries the `pd` (public domain) license tag and UsageTerms 'Public domain' (consistent with the standard posture of Russian Federation postage-stamp images of pre-1992 USSR issues). Native resolution 684x964 px; no resize required. Identification of the depicted subject as Bogomolets is asserted by the philatelic catalogue entry (CPA 4003) and reproduced on the Commons file record. Accepted residual: Commons-only media asset (scanned from a private collection). Dated search on 2026-05-28 found no institutional scan of CPA 4003 in Wellcome Collection, Library of Congress, or BnF/Gallica; Wikimedia Commons is the only located archive record at this date, with the CPA 4003 philatelic-catalogue entry as the underlying provenance anchor.
NOTES

The stamp is an artifact of how the Soviet state commemorated Bogomolets a generation after his death. License posture (pd, ‘Public domain’) was read from the Wikimedia Commons imageinfo API response, not from prose. The caption follows the Commons file record’s own framing (USSR Post 1971 stamp, after Yar-Kravchenko) without extending it.