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All-Russian Society of Philatelists

Всероссийское общество филателистов
Emblem of the organisation when it became the All-Union Society of Collectors
Abbreviation	Russian: ВОФ (VOF), Russian: ВОК (VOK)
Predecessor	Moscow Society of Philatelists and Collectors
Successor	All-Union Society of Philatelists, All-Union Society of Collectors
Formation	6 April 1923; 101 years ago (1923-04-06)
Founded at	Moscow, USSR
Extinction	late 1930s
Type	NGO
Legal status	national association
Purpose	philately, scripophily, numismatics, ex-libris collection
Headquarters	31 Herzen Street
Location	Moscow, USSR
Region	USSR
Membership (1926)	~3,000 members
Official language	Russian
Secretary General	Leongard Eichfuss
Chairman of the Board	Vladimir Repman (1923–1924) Leongard Eichfuss (1924–1925) Boris Bildin (1925–1928) Kazimir Dunin-Barkovsky (1928–1934)
Deputy Chairman of the Board	B. F. Pamfilov
Second Secretary	B. S. Pashkov
Treasurer	E. I. Markevich
Main organ	Board of the Society Publication: Soviet Philatelist
Remarks	private persons, 51 regional branches (1927)

All-Russian Society of Philatelists was a national philatelic organisation in Soviet Russia established in 1923. Later on, it was subsequently renamed and reorganised into the All-Union Society of Philatelists and the All-Union Society of Collectors.

Membership card of the Society, Section of Junior Philatelists, 1924

History

The idea of a new countrywide philatelic society was supported by the Russian Bureau of Philately at the RSFSR National Commissariat of Post and Telegraphs in 1922. On 15 March 1923, the charter of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists was approved. On 6 April 1923 its first meeting took place in Moscow. The society's branches worked in Yerevan, Tiflis, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Baku, and other cities. In 1924–1925, the First All-Union Philatelic Exhibition was held. The All-Russian Society of Philatelists published the Soviet Philatelist journal (1922–1932). It existed till the late 1930s.

Related pages

• First All-Union Philatelic Exhibition
• Leniniana
• Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily
• Philatelic International
• Philately
• Soviet Philatelic Association
• Soviet Philatelist

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