COLLECTION OF 3 SOVIET SPACE POSTAGE STAMP LAYOUTS BY DZHANIBEKOV AND KOMLEV

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COLLECTION OF 3 SOVIET SPACE POSTAGE STAMP LAYOUTS BY DZHANIBEKOV AND KOMLEV
It's offered to your attention the
collection of 3 unique layouts of Soviet postage stamps
- the original artworks by the Soviet artist-cosmonaut
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
(the 1st and the 3rd pictures) and well-known Soviet miniature painter and master of postal miniature
German Komlev
(the 2nd picture). The stamps printed according to these layouts are devoted to the milestones of space exploration by the USSR. They are included in well-known catalogues.
Enjoy the collection!
First woman in open space
Artist - cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov (signed on the frame).
Gouache painting on paper.
The layout comes with the postage stamp printed according to this artwork.
Size of the layout (height x width) -7.1x15.7 inches (18x40 cm).
Size of the frame (height x width) - 12.2x17.3 inches (31x44 cm).
Supersized look -
front
,
back
,
signature area
.
Catalogue number of the stamp printed from this artwork - 5654 (by Solovjev stamps catalogue), or 5585 (by Zagorsky stamps catalogue).
Condition - perfect.
The artwork is devoted to the first female spacewalk successfully accomplished by the cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya. The layout was created by her colleague artist-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov who accompanied Savitskaya during her spacewalk from the Soviet space station Salyut-7 on July 25th, 1984. The artist depicted the portraits of the crew members of Soyuz T-12 mission - the cosmonauts Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya and Volk beside the figure of Svetlana working on the surface of the space station in her spacesuit Orlan-D.
Soyuz TM-12 was the fourth visiting expedition of the Soviet space station Salyut-7 while the long term crew of Soyuz T-11 worked onboard. The joint spacewalk was implemented by Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Svetlana Savitskaya and lasted 3 hours 35 minutes. Svetlana Savitskaya became the first female cosmonaut in the world to step in outer space.
Provenance.
The layout has been presented by Vladimir Dzhanibekov to the famous Soviet cosmic artist Andrey Sokolov. After the death of Sokolov this layout was found by his relatives in Belarus, where Sokolov had a summer house. They held this great heritage for many years and only now decided to sell it.
ID #008515
April 12 - Cosmonautics Day
Artist - German Komlev (signed on the frame and on the
back
).
Gouache painting on paper.
Size of the layout (height x width) - 9.8x13.8 inches (25x35 cm).
Size of the frame (height x width) - 12.2x17.3 inches (31x44 cm).
Supersized look -
front
,
back
,
signature area
.
Catalogue number of the stamp printed from this artwork - 5712 (by Solovjev stamps catalogue), or 5643 (by Zagorsky stamps catalogue).
Condition - almost perfect. The artwork is in excellent condition, but there is a trace of glue that attached the original postage stamp onto it. Also the signature of the artist is faded.
The layout was created by the famous Soviet artist German Komlev who was the author of many Soviet postage stamps. The artist depicted the portrait of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - the "father" of cosmonautics who at the beginning of 20th century foreknew and described in his works the future principals of space flights using jet power and rockets, the weightlessness problem, how to survive in spaceship and the necessary equipment for that and for "space walks".
Provenance.
The layout has been presented by the author German Komlev to his colleague - the famous Soviet cosmic artist Andrey Sokolov. After the death of Sokolov this layout was found by his relatives in Belarus, where Sokolov had a summer house. They held this great heritage for many years and only now decided to sell it.
ID #008516
Cosmonaut Training Center XX anniversary
Artist - cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov (signed on the frame).
Gouache painting on paper.
The layout comes with the postage stamp printed according to this artwork.
Size of the layout (height x width) -14.2x6.7 inches (36x17 cm).
Size of the frame (height x width) - 17.3x12.2 inches (44x31 cm).
Supersized look -
front
,
back
,
signature area
.
Catalogue number of the stamp printed from this artwork - 5110 (by Solovjev stamps catalogue), or 5042 (by Zagorsky stamps catalogue).
Condition - very good. The artwork is in excellent condition, but there is a brownish darkened water stain on front of the frame.
The artwork was created by the artist-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov who accompanied Svetlana Savitskaya during the first ever female spacewalk and who recovered the space station Salyut-7 after its systems malfunction. At the top of the picture, the artist depicted a portrait of Yury Gagarin, whose name is the Cosmonaut Training Center. At the bottom of the picture Dzhanibekov placed the hydro basin of the center for spacewalks training at zero gravity.
The Cosmonaut Training Center includes various simulators, two centrifuges, a hydrolaboratory, and IL-76 laboratory airplane. Centrifuges are designed for overload training. The three-floors hydrolaboratory includes a water basin which is 23 meters in diameter and 12 meters deep. In the hydrolaboratory, operations are being worked out in the conditions of zero gravity of outer space on a full-size model of the orbital station (currently, the ISS). Laboratory airplane is intended to create short-term weightlessness.
Provenance.
The layout has been presented by Vladimir Dzhanibekov to the famous Soviet cosmic artist Andrey Sokolov. After the death of Sokolov this layout was found by his relatives in Belarus, where Sokolov had a summer house. They held this great heritage for many years and only now decided to sell it.
ID #008517
The authors
The cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov (born May 13, 1942) - USSR pilot-cosmonaut (1978), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1978, 1981), major general of aviation (1985). The total duration of space flights is 145 days 15 hours 58 minutes 35 seconds. The total duration of 2 spacewalks is 8 hours 34 minutes. The crew commander in all five of his flights, as of 2015 for 30 years, this record was only once repeated, but not surpassed.
During his last space flight Dzhanibekov participated in Salyut-7 station recovery. After a malfunction of the main equipment of the command radio link, a power failure and the issuance of incorrect commands from the Mission Control Center, the Salyut-7 station switched to a completely uncontrolled flight. To regain control of the station, the crew of two cosmonauts was sent on Soyuz T-13 spacecraft modified for this purpose. They were the cosmonauts Dzhanibekov and Savinykh. The cosmonauts were lucky to manually dock to the rotating station and reestablish its failed systems to make the station alive again.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov is a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He is the author of layouts for Soviet and American postage stamps.
Dzhanibekov has many awards and honorary titles in Russia and abroad. In 1991-1994, when retired from the space team, he participated in several attempts to make a round the world non-stop flight in a balloon, as a member of US-Russian crew. Besides that, he was the President of the Association of the Space Museums in Russia.
The artist German Alekseevich Komlev (1933–2000) is the Soviet miniature painter, master of postal miniature.
Totally 426 postage stamps and blocks, 466 envelopes, 141 postal cards and card-maximums and more than 100 special postmarks were issued for the USSR and other countries according to the layouts of German Komlev, while he was working in the field of postal miniature.
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