For a long five years, starting in 1975, in the USSR, most citizens of the country dreamed of knowing what an ash tree looks like after the release of Eldar Ryazanov's film entitled "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" famous playwright as an "enemy of the people", Kirshon Vladimir Pavlovich.
I asked the ash tree ... where is my beloved?
These lines did not leave the lips of Soviet citizens at any holiday table, especially at the New Year's.
But, it was not so easy to find this tree in the forest, or in the park, lol.
It was lost behind poplars, aspens, beeches and hornbeams, birches and pines.
How to find out what you have never seen, or rather, you may have seen an ash tree, but did not know that it was him.
But, I am sure that among the autumn, fallen leaves, the leaves of this tree lay on the ground.
Apparently, in 1080, the USSR authorities decided to have mercy on their citizens, who were already tired of looking for ash trees and included the image of this tree in a series of postage stamps Protected Trees and Shrubs issued in 1980 in the USSR.
Finally, people breathed a sigh of relief, because, now, they saw what the European (common) Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree and its foliage looked like.
With a light heart, people parted with fifteen kopecks, which cost a postage stamp, lol.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Trees, # USSR.
Series: Protected Trees and Shrubs.
Name: European (common) Ash (Fraxinus excelsior).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 15 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5006.
Episode release date: October 29, 1980.
Perforation: comb 12¼ х 12.
Postage stamp size: 42 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,400,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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