Official Release - April 3, 2024

Cities of Heroes. Chernihiv Region

The set includes:

Patron the dog also came to the event, so we got a philatelic lick 😏

--- 1 FDC All 9 signatures - Cities of Heroes. Chernihiv

signed:

- Mykhailo Iliev - owner of Dog Patron, head of the pyrotechnic works department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region

- Dmytro Bryzhynskyi - colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, head of the Chernihiv City Military Administration

- Vyacheslav Chaus - head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration

- Oleg Humenny - colonel, head of the department of moral and psychological support of the Joint Command "North"

- Igor Smelyansky - General Director of Ukrposhta

- Svitlana Vasylenko - network development director of the Chernihiv region of Ukrposhta

- Valentina Myshko - Chief Sales Manager of the Chernihiv Directorate of Ukrposhta

- Tetyana Yuvzhenko - head of the post office of Ukrposhta 14000 in the city of Chernihiv

- Anna Konstantinova - Director of postal services of Ukrposhta in the city of Chernihiv

For more than a month, since February 24, 2022, the enemy has been trying to occupy the territory of Chernihiv region to get as close to the capital as possible. 

Despite the danger, the locals actively resisted: they set up artificial obstacles to the advance of enemy vehicles on the roads, tracked their movement and passed information to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in other words, did everything to help the defenders hold back the offensive.

The Ukrainian military fought desperately for every meter of their homeland and by April 3, 2022, drove the Russian aggressor out of the entire region.

With the liberation, peace did not return to the region, as the proximity of the border with Russia allows the enemy to launch constant missile attacks aimed at settlements in the region. 

But this did not prevent active recovery from the Russian invasion. The Chernihiv region has survived and is rebuilding, and its residents deserve our sincere respect for their active struggle.

The postage issue, which is a continuation of the “Cities of Heroes” series, is dedicated to Chernihiv, Nizhyn, Yahidne and Semenivka. The designs were developed by the creative agency I AM IDEA.

Specification:

• Design — Creative agency I AM IDEA

• Issue date — 03.04.2024

• Printing block — 150 000

• Ukrposhta catalogue number — 208 (2077-2080)

• Block size, mm — 149х93

• Stamp size, mm — 4х33,06х43,5

• The number of stamps in the block — 4

• Face value of each postage stamp — М