Cuckoo

Today I bought wonderful maxicards with cuckoo and would like to make a post about it.

A cuckoo is a bird of 2014 year in Belarus.

Design of postage stamp "Cuckoo" and envelope "First day" belongs to the artist Alexander Mityanin. He has painted almost all the editions of the series "Bird of the year."

Here is a maxicard:

Hope, postcrosser of different countries will like it ;)

IIHF World Championship

Minsk, the capital of Belarus, will host the 2014 IIHF World Championship.

Belarus got 75 votes in the race for hosting the 2014 IIHF World Championship at the Annual Congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Bern and beat the other candidates - Hungary (24 votes), Latvia (3) and Ukraine (3).

The 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship will be held on 9-25 May 2014.

In connection with this event Belpost released a new stamp! I already bought a list of stamps :)

Happy Postcrossing!

Today I would like to show special Postcrossing stamps which our belpost released on 2 January this year.

I have seen 2 articles in postcrossing blog regarding this event :)

Also I receive from postcrossing.com the following message with stats:

"Did you know that on January 2nd, Belpochta launched a new Postcrossing themed stamp? Look for it in your nearest post office and start sending your postcards with this special stamp!"

I also have some maxi-cards, like this:

It is really important that our post shows interest to postcrossing. I just want belpost to not raise the prices so often.. However, this is another story.

Stamps - Belarusian cartoons

In addition to my posts about cards received I'd like to save here information about Belarusian stamps which I use.

This year Belpost issued 2 types of stamps which I can use for postcrossing. However in this post I want to show my favourite stamps issued last year:

National Film Studio "Belarusfilm" is one of the leading studios in Eastern Europe with a complete production cycle . It was founded  in 1924 ."Belarusfilm"  is the constant participant of many international film festivals.  

A movie "Pilipko" (1st column, 3rd stamp) by  Tatiana Kublitskaya  was awarded with the highest award of the festival "Golden Slipper" in the nomination "Best Animated Film" at the 53rd International Film Festival of Films for Children and Youth in Zlin (Czech Republic, 2013). 

Elena Pyatkevich with her movie "Snow White and Alotsvetik" (2st column, 3rd stamp) won the Master Award at the XVI International Festival of Animation Films "Animajevka 2013" (Mogilev, Belarus) .