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Russian Post (Russian: Почта России, Pochta Rossii) is an Aktsionernoye Obschestvo (AO, private limited company) [1] which is the national postal operator of Russia. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia, and the issuing of postage stamps. Russian Post employs about 390,000 people and has over 42,000 post ...
The idea worked well and was extended throughout Russia on December 1, 1848. Local postal systems used stamps referred to as Zemstvo stamps, from the term for local government begun under Alexander II in 1864. [1] Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) created in 1874.
The Russian post offices abroad were established by Russia between the late 18th and early 20th centuries to handle mail service where the local service was deemed unreliable. The first such were the Russian post offices in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which began operations in the 1770s. All the post offices closed during the 1910s.
The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1][2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians. [3][4] In 882, Prince Oleg of Novgorod seized Kiev, uniting the northern and southern lands of the Eastern Slavs under one authority, moving the governance center to Kiev by the end ...
Russian Post has a system of postal codes (Russian: почтовый индекс, pochtovyy indeks) based on the federal subject a place is located in. Each postal code consists of six digits with first three referring to the federal subject or the administrative division with special status. Some larger subjects have multiple three-digit ...
The Russian regional governor confirmed the attack and said 1,200 people were evacuated. ... The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Facebook post that the site is "in the top ...
History of Russian postage rates. Order of the Russian Post announcing new postal rates as of 28 May 2008. Postage rates in Russia have changed multiple times in the period 1917 to present. They have been introduced by the Soviet and Russian Federation governmental organs and agencies and reflected in alteration of stamp denominations.
Zelenskiy has called repeatedly for a withdrawal of all Russian troops, and the restoration of Ukraine's post-Soviet borders. Russia controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory and has been ...