BOGUS MODERN RUSSIA ISSUES & OVERPRINTS
(from Stamp Yellow Pages : Local Posts : Bogus Russia..)

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.

  • 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
  • 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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