UKRAINEPEX 2024 - Garfield-Perry - March 15-17
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- Published on 31 December 2023
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Mark your calendar now to be part of this world event. This year UKRAINEPEX 2024 will be held in conjunction with Garfield-Perry March Party, an American Philatelic Society World Series of Philately show. UKRAINEPEX to be held March 15-17 at the Best Western Plus,15471 Royalton Rd, Strongsville, Ohio just outside of Cleveland. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free. The show will feature a bourse (sales area) of 38 dealers and 170 frames of exhibits.
Canada Peace in Ukraine Stamp
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- Published on 05 May 2022
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The Ukrainian Collectibles Society (Toronto) is proud to announce a new Canada Post Picture Postage™ stamp proclaiming Canada’s support for Ukraine during the unprovoked and illegal full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation. The stamp design features a peace dove with an olive branch. The Permanent™ domestic rate stamp can be used to mail a letter anywhere in Canada or kept as a souvenir. DONATIONS RAISED TO DATE (Pleadged and Sent) $ 1,470
This Picture Postage stamp is not available at Canada Post offices and must be ordered directly from the Ukrainian Collectibles Society (Toronto). If you have any questions, please send to ucst.stamps@gmail.com . To order click on the order form link to download and follow the instructions on the form.
Study Featuring 'Carpatho-Ukraine' Stamps and Mail
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- Published on 11 March 2018
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This study was initiated during 2013, and was circulated to society peers for vetting and feedback in October 2015. It elaborates on a genre of philately which is not as well-known as it should be. When Carpatho-Ukraine existed as a country, so very briefly in 1939 before being occupied by a neighbouring power, and then for most of 1945 before being absorbed into a neighbouring super-military, it produced stamps for 'its public'. These were a people who wanted their identity to be reflected in nationhood, though who had little choice but to bow to the dominance of others. Thus, and despite their locally produced stamps, some would argue that the nation of Carpatho-Ukraine was no more than a puppet of others, and so, not yet recognized by some philatelists who at the same time honour others with a similar history. It is a hope that this compilation will shed more light on the stamps that this small entity produced, and, as well, some of the history that these issues reflect. Know that there are many other Carpatho-Ukraine stamp texts, which this author learned from, that were completed by excellent members and friends of our UPNS!
Presentation: Ukrainian Provisionals 1992 to 1995
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- Published on 13 October 2016
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This is a ‘voiced-over powerpoint’ presentation that is about 2½-hours. Each given slide is different in length as the result of content explanation.
Why the Need for these Provisionals? Primary reasons: a) inadequate supply of national issues due to lack of facilities; strategic USSR assets were ‘centralized’; thus, no modern and secure mint and print facilities in Ukraine; b) inadequate distribution network to all post offices; system had been Russia-centred for several decades; it now had to be reconfigured to Ukraine; Secondary reasons: c) the need to repatriate what had been a russified system; d) inflation-hyperinflation; at the very first minute of 02 January 1992, Ukrainian denomination was 8-to-1; but on 05 December 1993 it was 12,600-to-1, and by 09 December 1994 110,000-to-1. Yikes, and given this ‘trend’, there was a dramatic effect on the postal system and all of its ‘adjuncts’! However such variables, otherwise deleterious, resulted in an interestingly complex postage system and stamp production routine during this period.
The Ukrainian Museum marks Ukraine’s independence anniversary with two exhibits
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- Published on 11 September 2016
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The Ukrainian Museum in New York City is marking two significant chapters in Ukraine’s modern history – 25 years since its declaration of independence in 1991 and the approaching centennial of the liberation struggle and short-lived independence in the early 20th century – with two parallel exhibitions.
In Metal, On Paper: Coins, Banknotes, and Postage Stamps of Independent Ukraine, 1991-2016 is curated by Yuri Savchuk, Ph.D., senior research associate at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Museum organized this exhibition in partnership with the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukrposhta and the Institute of History of Ukraine.
Money, Sovereignty and Power: The Paper Currency of Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-1920 is curated by Bohdan Kordan, professor and director of the Prairie Center for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH) at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. This traveling exhibition was organized by PCUH in cooperation with the Ukrainian Museum of Canada.
The exhibitions will be open to the public from September 11 through November 27.
