Today we will begin to complete the next series of postage stamps issued in the USSR in 1986.
This series will show us the plants that have chosen the steppes of the USSR, but the series is called Plants of Russian Steppes, the guys generalized these steppes with the word "Russians", although many other nationalities live where these plants live.
On the first postage stamp with a face value of 4 kopecks of the USSR, we will see the Schrenk Tulip, which is considered the ancestor of most cultivars of tulips.
I want to note that, in those years. when I lived in Moldova, I found such tulips where there are no steppes, in Moldavian Codri.
If you don’t know what codri is, these are large forest areas, as a rule, it is a deciduous forest, conifers are extremely rare there.
The wild tulip is very similar to the tulip you see in this photo.
Even such a purple-colored hybrid carries a grain of the wild tulip, its petals have become larger, the tulip is taller and more massive. By the way, I found wild tulips of this color.
Let's take a look at the tulip shown on a 6,400,000-issue postage stamp.
At auctions, I found such a postage stamp only in a canceled version, and as you can see, my postage stamp is clean, without a postmark it pleases me.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Flowers, # Plants, # USSR.
Series: Plants of Russian Steppes.
Name: Tulips (Túlipa suaveólens).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 4 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5573.
Episode release date: January 15, 1986.
Perforation: comb 12¼ х 12.
Postage stamp size: 28 x 40 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,400,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.37.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.02 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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