Filateliia SSSR

(Philately of the USSR), a monthly bulletin; an organ of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR and the All-Union Society of Philatelists, published in Moscow since 1966. Its predecessor was the magazine Sovetskii filatelist (Soviet Philatelist), for a number of years called Sovetskii kollektsioner (Soviet Collector), published from 1922 to 1932 by the All-Russian Society of Philatelists.

The bulletin publishes announcements of new postage stamp issues and information about research in postal and philatelic history, about thematic collecting, and about the activities of the All-Union Society of Philatelists and the philatelic organizations in other socialist countries; it also has a section for junior philatelists. It has repeatedly won awards at international philatelic exhibitions. Circulation, approximately 100,000(1977).