Ivan Franko on stamps

Franko's centennial year of 1956 saw four stamps released in his honor. Three of these emissions came in the Soviet Union, where a set of two stamps (40-kopek and 1-ruble) was issued in August and another larger (40-kopek) stamp in December (Figure 7). Romania also released a Franko stamp in December of that year (Figure 8).

Ukraine has, to date, only produced a single stamp depicting Ivan Franko. A 3,000-karbovanets value came out in February of 1995 (Figure 9) and was the first in the Luminaries of Ukrainian Literature series. The stamp release date was delayed by several months and this accounts for the 1994 date in the lower right corner. The literary work depicted next to the author is his novel "Boryslav Smiyetsia."

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 6, 2004, No. 23, Vol. LXXII

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