On July 9, 2013 the Ministry of Communications and
Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue a set of 4 values and
block “Zoos in Belarus”. On stamps are represented the following animal and birds -
inhabitants of the Minsk and Grodno zoos: Far East leopard, European mouflon,
Steller's sea eagle, Siberian tiger. There are the zoos emblems on stamps. Designer: Alexander Mityanin. Printing: offset. Colour:
multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 14: 141/4. Size
of stamps: 40x28 mm. Edition: 70.000 copies.
Postage block of 4 values and 2 labels. Perforation: frame. Size of block 104х114 mm. Edition: 12 000 copies.
The issue is printed in 4 mini sheets of 7 sets and label with decorating margins. Made at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House
A. T. Nepogodin.
The Minsk Zoo was founded on August 9, 1984 by nature
amateurs, which were employees of the Minsk Automobile Plant. Its founder and the
first manager was Fiodor Revzin. At first it was a Zoological and
Botanical Garden. Nowadays the Minsk Zoo is a unique museum of wildlife. Its
collection includes both exotic animals and rare fauna of Belarus. The Grodno Zoo is the oldest in Belarus. It was
founded as an educational botanical garden in 1927 by a school teacher and
animal lover Yan Kokhanovski. When animals of the local fauna appeared there it
became a Zoological garden. Since 1939 it is state property. Currently the
collection of the zoo is replenished through the purchase of new animals,
exchange with other zoos, the emergence of the young, etc.
