BOGUS MODERN RUSSIA ISSUES
& OVERPRINTS
The following are former Soviet Republics with legitimate
stamp issues.
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Karabakh (an enclave
within Azerbaijan with ties to Armenia)
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrghizstan (stamps
are coming from more than one souce. Be careful what you buy)
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Russia
- Tadjikistan (stamps
are coming from more than one souce. Be careful what you buy)
- Turkmenistan (stamps
are coming from more than one souce. Be careful what you buy)
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
All the rest are BOGUS ! See below for a list.
STAMP COLLECTORS - you work hard to earn the money you
have, so don't waste it on these bogus Russian issues and overprints.
Buy genuine stamps from Postal
Administrations or stamps from genuine Local
Posts instead.
The following have issued bogus stamps and some have issued bogus postal stationery also.
- Abhkazia (Republic of Abkhasia). *
- Adigey
- Adjara (Adjaria). *
- Aegma
- Akhal Velayet
- Aksi
- Altai or Altaj or
Altay
- Amur
- Amurskaya
- Balkan Velayat
- Bashkiria
- Bashkortostan
- Batum
- Batumi. *
- Bessarabia
- Birobidzhan
- Bokhara
- Buriatia
- Chakasia
- Caratchaevo
- Chechnya or Chechenia
- Cherkesia
- Chuashia or Chuvashia
- Dagestan
- Eastern Siberia
- Evenkia
- Gagauzia or Gagazia
or Gaguzia
- Galitina Ukraine
- Hakasia
- Hiluman
- Ingushetia
- Jewish Republic
- Kabarbino-Balkaria or Karbardino-Balkaria
- Kalmykia
- Kamchatka or Kamtshatka
- Karachaevo-Cherkesia
- Karakalnakia
- Karakalpakia (part of Uzbekistan)
- Karakalpaston
- Karelia
- Karjala
- Khakasia
- Kolguev Islands
- Komi
- Komsomolsk
- Korekia
- Koriakia
- Kuril Islands
- Mari
- Mari-El or Marj-El
- Mary Veleyat
- Mordovia (not to be confused with the
actual country of Moldova)
- Naxcivan
- North Ossetia
- Osmusaar
- Ossetia
- Sachalin Islands
- Sacha-Yakutia or Saha-Yakutia
- Saha
- SFOR-Bosnia
- South Osetia (South Ossetia). *
- Suur Pakri
- Tartari
- Tatarstan or Tartarstan
- Touva
- Transdinestra
- Transniestra
- Udmurtia
- Ural
- Vorms
- Yakuti or Yakutia
- Yakutia-Sacha
* A region of the Republic of Georgia in Central Asia. The U.P.U. has
declared these issues as "illegal" in the UPU Circular #50.
This list is not complete. I would appreciate input from viewers. Please
e-mail me.
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