Date:26/05/16

Postage stamp, published by MCHT, selected as “The most original postage stamp of the month” in Italy

A postage stamp  issued  by Azermarka LLC of the  Ministry of Communications and High Technologies (MCHT) on the occasion of “FIDE World Chess  Cup. Baku-2015”  has been selected as “The most original postage stamp of the month” in Italy.

 

This is stated in a message addressed to MCHT by managing director of the Italian magazine L'arte del francobollo.

 

The message notes that the winner was determined as a result of voting held by network users on “Facebook” page of the magazine. "UNIFICATO".

 

The main criteria of the competition “April 2011 - April 2016: five years with the publication of art”, conducted  by magazine’s staff on a social network,  was determination of the  best quality and original postage stamp.

 

The results of the voting were first posted on the Facebook page of the magazine.

 

Note that, along with the “UNIFICATO” page, the full text of the article on  the selection of the postage stamp as “the most original postage stamp of the month” dedicated to  the competition FIDE  World Chess  Cup held  in Baku on 10 September - 5 October 2015,  was posted in the April issue of the magazine (l'arte del francobollo 57 Aprile 2016).

 

The article says  the postage stamp depicts the perfect image of the planet, as well as  other historical monuments of the world -  Tower of Pisa (Italy), Eiffel Tower (France), Big Ben (London), The Kremlin Tower (Russia), Ranganatha Temple (India), Statue of Liberty (USA)  around Maiden Tower which is situated in Old  Baku, host of the FIDE World Chess Cup.

 

It should be noted that the artist of the postage stamp “FIDE World Chess Cup. Baku- 2015” is Khasay Mirzayev. The print-run of the postage stamp, which was published through offset printing, is 5 thousand.

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