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Goznak - 100th Anniversary of the birth of Sergei Korolev
| Issuer | Goznak (Гознак) |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Printer | Goznak (Гознак, Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг), Russian Federation (1818-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of rocket engineer and chief designer Sergei Korolev at left, surrounded by a montage of early Soviet space programme imagery including satellites, spacecraft trajectories, planetary orbits, and celestial bodies. The composition evokes the pioneering achievements of the Soviet space effort of the 1950s–60s in a graphically rich, modernist style. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1907 С.П.КОРОЛЕВ 2007 100 лет со дня рождения |
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Goznak issued this commemorative sheet in 2007 to mark a century since the birth of Sergei Korolev, the chief rocket designer whose identity was classified by the Soviet state for most of his working life — he appeared in public documentation only as "Chief Designer," and his name was not officially disclosed until his obituary in 1966. The irony of commemorating, by name and portrait, a man the USSR spent decades actively concealing is not lost on collectors of Soviet and post-Soviet ephemera.
As a Goznak printing house souvenir rather than a circulating banknote, its primary interest lies in production context: Goznak has used such sheets since the late Soviet period to demonstrate security printing capabilities to institutional clients.