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Soviet Philatelic Association

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Jurisdiction
  
VTsIK

Founded
  
25 October 1926

Headquarters
  
Moscow, USSR

Formed
  
25 October 1926; 90 years ago (1926-10-25)

Preceding agency
  
Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

Dissolved
  
1938; 79 years ago (1938)

Superseding agency
  
Chief Philatelic Bureau

Predecessor
  
Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

Soviet Philatelic Association (SFA; Russian: Советская филателистическая ассоциация (СФА)) was a business run by the Soviet Union authorities in the field of philately.

History

Two early philatelic public entities existed in the Soviet Union. These were All-Russian Society of Philatelists (created in 1922) and Philatelic International (or Filintern organised in 1924). In July 1924, an "All-Union Philatelic Association of Socialist Soviet Republics" was formed. It was called the "State Philatelic Organization". This association was entrusted to Feodor Chuchin. He also supervised another state body, Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily. The All-Union Philatelic Association ceased to exist soon after. It lacked a published decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) and RSFSR Sovnarkom.

On 25 October 1926, a new association was established in Moscow by VTsIK and Sovnarkom decree. It replaced the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily. SFA sold Soviet stamps to foreign dealers, Soviet philatelists, and schoolboys. These latter glued their stamps into school notebooks because of a lack of stamp albums.

The SFA organ was the journal Sovetskii Filatelist (Soviet Philatelist).

In 1938, the Soviet Philatelic Association was replaced with the Chief Philatelic Bureau.

References

Soviet Philatelic Association Wikipedia