USSR stamps 1956

USSR, 1956: the 121 stamps issued that year, with photos, face values, catalogue values and details.

• Bicentenary of the First State Theatre in Russia — 40 Soviet kopek
• Maksim Gorky (1868-1936), Russian and Soviet Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• Mikhail V. Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian Scientist and Poet — 40 Soviet kopek
• Alexander S. Pushkin (1799-1837), Russian Author — 40 Soviet kopek
• Shota Rustaveli (1160~1166—1216), Georgian Poet — 40 Soviet kopek
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• Birth Centenary of Ivan Yakovych Franko (1856-1916), Author — 40 Soviet kopek
• Kālidāsa (4-5th centuries AD), Old Indian Author — 40 Soviet kopek
• Birth Centenary of Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933), Artist — 40 Soviet kopek
• Birth Centenary of Yuly M. Shokalsky (1856-1940) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Alexander V. Suvorov (1730-1800), Russian Army Commander — 40 Russian kopek
• Alexander V. Suvorov (1730-1800), Russian Army Commander — 1 Soviet ruble
• Alexander V. Suvorov (1730-1800), Russian Army Commander — 3 Soviet ruble
• 225th Anniversary of Fictional Balloon Flight by Kryakutnoy — 40 Soviet kopek
• Shatura Electric Power Plant and its Awards — 40 Russian kopek
• Julija Žemaitė (1845-1921), Lithuanian Author — 40 Soviet kopek
• 125th Birth Anniversary of Fyodor A. Bredikhin (1831-1904) — 40 Soviet kopek
• 75th Birth Anniversary of Grigory I. Kotovsky (1881-1925) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Soviet Scientific Antarctic Expedition — 40 Soviet kopek
• Blast Furnace Construction — 60 Soviet kopek
• Dam Construction — 1 Soviet ruble
• Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian Composer — 40 Soviet kopek
• Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French Physicist — 40 Russian kopek
• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian Playwright — 40 Soviet kopek
• Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German Poet — 40 Soviet kopek
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish Playwright — 40 Soviet kopek
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American Politician — 40 Soviet kopek
• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch Painter — 40 Soviet kopek
• Sesshū Tōyō (Oda Tōyō, 1420-1506), Japanese Painter — 40 Soviet kopek
• Poultry Farm — 10 Soviet kopek
• Combine Harvesting of Crops — 10 Soviet kopek
• Machine Corn Harvesting — 25 Soviet kopek
• Corn Field — 40 Soviet kopek
• Machine and Tractor Station (MTS) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Cow Herd on a Pasture — 40 Soviet kopek
• Sculpture of Collective Farmers and Industrial View — 40 Soviet kopek
• Nestor the Chronicler (c.1056-c.1114), Old Russian author — 40 Soviet kopek
• Nestor the Chronicler (c.1056-c.1114), Old Russian author — 1 Soviet ruble
• 150th Birth Anniversary of Alexander A. Ivanov (1806-1858) — 40 Russian kopek
• 160th Death Anniv of Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish Poet — 40 Soviet kopek
• Birth Centenary of Ivan Yakovych Franko (1856-1916), Author — 40 Russian kopek
• Birth Centenary of Ivan Yakovych Franko (1856-1916), Author — 1 Soviet ruble
• 85th Birth Anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913), Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• Mahmud Bağır oğlu Eyvazov (1808-1960) Type I with Comb Perf — 40 Soviet kopek
• Mahmud Bağır oğlu Eyvazov (1808-1960) Type II with Line Perf — 40 Soviet kopek
• Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ilya Repin (1873) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin (1891) — 1 Soviet ruble
• Apartment Building Construction — 40 Russian kopek
• Running - Relay Race — 10 Soviet kopek
• Running - Relay Race — 10 Soviet kopek
• Volleyball — 25 Soviet kopek
• Swimming — 25 Soviet kopek
• Rowing (A Coxed Eight) — 25 Soviet kopek
• Cycling — 40 Soviet kopek
• Emblem of the Spartakiad of the USSR — 40 Soviet kopek
• Netball — 1 Soviet ruble
• 3rd World Parachuting Championship, Moscow, 1956 — 40 Soviet kopek
• Tennis
• Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow — 40 Soviet kopek
• Fencing — 40 Soviet kopek
• Football — 40 Soviet kopek
• Gymnastics - Women's Floor Exercise — 60 Soviet kopek
• Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898) and Art Gallery Named After Him — 40 Soviet kopek
• The Rooks Have Come Back, Alexey Savrasov — 40 Soviet kopek
• Factory Building of the Works and Harvesters — 40 Soviet kopek
• 110th Birth Anniversary of Glikeriya N. Fedotova (1846-1925) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Factory Building of the Works and Harvesters — 40 Soviet kopek
• 35th Death Anniv of Alexander A. Blok (1880-1921), Poet — 40 Soviet kopek
• 125th Birth Anniv of Nikolai S. Leskov (1831-1895), Writer — 40 Russian kopek
• 125th Birth Anniv of Nikolai S. Leskov (1831-1895), Writer — 1 Soviet ruble
• Nadezhda K. Krupskaya (1869-1939), Wife of Vladimir Lenin — 40 Soviet kopek
• 70th Birth Anniv of Sergey M. Kirov (1886-1934), Statesman — 40 Soviet kopek
• 70th Birth Anniv of Sergey M. Kirov (1886-1934), Statesman — 40 Russian kopek
• Ivan V. Michurin (1855-1935), Russian Plant Breeder — 25 Russian kopek
• Ivan Michurin Among Young Naturalists — 60 Soviet kopek
• Ivan V. Michurin (1855-1935), Russian Plant Breeder — 1 Soviet ruble
• 125th Birth Anniversary of Alexey K. Savrasov (1830-1897) — 1 Soviet ruble
• Ivan M. Sechenov (1829-1905), Russian Physiologist — 40 Soviet kopek
• Ivan M. Sechenov (1829-1905), Russian Physiologist — 40 Soviet kopek
• Vladimir Arsenyev (1872-1930) and His Guide, Dersu Uzala — 40 Soviet kopek
• Scientific Drifting Station North Pole — 1 ₽
• Death Centenary of Nikolay I. Lobachevsky (1792-1856) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Schoolgirls in Medical Study Group — 40 Soviet kopek
• Protect the Health of Workers! — 40 Soviet kopek
• Vladimir I. Lenin on the Rostrum — 40 Soviet kopek
• 220th Birth Anniversary of Ivan P. Kulibin (1735-1818) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Self Portrait, Vasily G. Perov (1833–1882) — 40 Soviet kopek
• The Bird-Catcher, Vasily G. Perov (1833-1882) — 1 Soviet ruble
• The Hunters at Rest, Vasily G. Perov (1833-1882) — 1 Soviet ruble
• Nikolay A. Kasatkin (1859-1930), Russian Painter — 40 Soviet kopek
• Along the River Oka, Abram Ye. Arkhipov (1862-1930) — 40 Soviet kopek
• Along the River Oka, Abram Ye. Arkhipov (1862-1930) — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion "Urals" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Tatar ASSR" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion "Siberia" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Central Black Soil Regions" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion "Volga Region" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "North Caucasus" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, Ryazan & Bryansk Regions" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Bashkir ASSR" — 1 ₽
• Pavilion of "Young Naturalists" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion "Leningrad - Northwest" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Central Regions" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "Far East" — 1 Soviet ruble
• Pavilion of "North-Eastern Regions" — 1 ₽
• 150th Birth Anniv of Khachatur Abovyan (1809-1848), Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• 150th Birth Anniv of Khachatur Abovyan (1809-1848), Writer — 40 Soviet kopek
• USSR Flag, Monument of Vladimir Lenin, Spassky Tower — 40 Russian kopek
• USSR Flag, Monument of Vladimir Lenin, Spassky Tower — 1 Soviet ruble
• USSR Academy of Sciences' Nuclear Power Plant — 25 Soviet kopek
• Upper Part of the World's First Power Station Reactor — 60 Soviet kopek
• USSR Academy of Sciences' Nuclear Power Plant — 1 Soviet ruble
• 5th All-Union Trade Unions Summer Spartakiad, 1955 — 1 Soviet ruble
• 10th Death Anniv of Aleksey Krylov (1863-1945), Engineer — 40 Soviet kopek
• 10th Death Anniv of Aleksey Krylov (1863-1945), Engineer — 40 Russian kopek
• Horse Racing — 40 Soviet kopek
• Horse Racing — 60 Soviet kopek
• Harness Racing — 1 Soviet ruble
• Dmitry I. Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian Chemist — 40 Soviet kopek
• Volkhov Hydroelectric Plant named after V.I. Lenin — 40 Russian kopek