The Ukrainian Electronic Stamp Album

2009 Philatelic Issues

Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916)

On 18 Feb 2009; Ukraine issued a definitive stamps based on Ukrainian writers series.




  1. The stamp shows the portrait of Sholem Aleichem - pen nameof Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, a popular humorist and Jewish author of Yiddish literature and theatre

A pictorial cancellation was used for the First Day of Issue cover. Cancellation was done in Kyiv.




Face Value 2.2hrv
Colour Multicolour
Design Oleksandr Kalmikov
Printing Method Offset
Printers "Derzhznak" - Kyiv
Perforation 14.0 x 14.25
Stamp Size 40 x 28 mm
Sheet 12(3 x 4)
Issue 200,000