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Animal Stamp of Russian Federation

It is an opening of a country that Kiev dukedom was formed in an area of the existing Ukrainian Republic in the Soviet Union in the ninth century. It take an invasion of Mongolia in the thirteenth century, and Kiev dukedom collapses, and It pursue a foothold in the north, and Moscow dukedom is formed in the 15th century. When the 18th century began, It expanded a territory with Peter great emperor and became Russian Empire. However, the 20th century began, and a revolution broke out in February and October of 1917 with a panic and defeat of Russo-Japanese War, Czarist Russia collapsed, and the Soviet Union government was formed, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed in 1922. A seat of power concentrated on Secretary-General of Communist Party (Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev) under one Communist Party party autocracy afterward. A policy of Gorbachev promotes the republican independence that constituted the Soviet Union, and each republic becomes independent in sequence. It founded CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) in 1991, and the Soviet Union became extinct, and the former Soviet Union was succeeded in the Russian Federation.
Six kinds of conservation of nature stamps on which it drew an animal in 1968 were issued by this Soviet Union.
In 1976 year, five kinds of conservation of nature stamps on which it drew birds were issued.
Five kinds of stamps which drew an ancient creature were issued in 1990.

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