Booklet "EUROPA. Ancient postal routes. Postman Feketa"
The theme of the postage stamp with the image of the
legendary postman Fedir Feketa from the village of Tur'i Remeta, Perechyn
District, Transcarpathia, was chosen for a reason. F. Feketa went to Uzhgorod
and back every day for mail, about 60 km. His postal activity began with the
opening of a foundry in his native village, which needed constant postal
exchange. In those years (the first half of the 19th century), the coach and
mail line "Budapest-Kosice-Lviv" passed through Uzhhorod. Fedir Feketa
was born in 1789 and died on March 18, 1839. According to the recollections of
his fellow villagers, he slipped once while crossing a pond and fell into the
cold water: he caught a cold and died of pneumonia. In his honor at the local
church in the village. Turya Remeta has a memorial plaque with the inscription:
"Fedor Feketa. In Memory of Friendship. Sobriety, Honesty and Service of
the Ambassador". A bronze monument (sculptor Mykhailo Belen) was erected
in his honor in the district center of Perechyn in 2004. It is located in the
central part of Perechyn, and the district post office is nearby, which is a
certain symbol.
The postal issue "Postman Fedir Feketa"
(2020) won silver in the competition "The best postage stamp of Europe
2020 - the jury's choice".
Specification:
· Issue date — 25.06.2020
· Printing — 9 000
· · Block format - 115*69 mm
Stamp format in block - 50*35 mm