Stamps of the Russian Empire area during the Civil War (1917-1922)

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English: Stamps of the Russian Empire area during the Civil War (1917-1922), including philatelic fakes and forgeries.
Nederlands: Postzegels van het Russische rijk in de periode van de burgeroorlog (1917 - 1922), inclusief vervalsingen.

Crimean Regional Government

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  • Issue date: 1918, June 25 – 1919, April 2.

Don Territory

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  • Issue date: 1918, early November – 1920, January

Far Eastern Republic

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  • Issue date: 1920, April – 1922, October 25

Coalition Government

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Priamur Provisional Government, Merkulov

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Priamur Rural Area Government, Diterikhs

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Kolchak Government

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  • Issue date: 1919, November – 1920, January 4

Cinderella stamps

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Resembling postage stamps, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration.

Kuban Territory

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  • Issue date: 1918, end of September –1921 (latest usage known 28 June 1921 - Acc. A.M. Rosselevitch).

Bogus stamps

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Genuine stamps which bear the sham addition of an unauthorized surcharge or overprint.

North Western Army

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  • Issue date: 1919, August 1 – October 15.

General Nicolai N. Yudenich

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Still available tsarist stamps were overprinted 'Sev. Zap. Armia' in Cyrillic, the abbreviation for 'Severo-Zapadnaya Armia' or Northwest Army. Overprinted in Pskov and issued on 1 Aug 1919, used until October 15, 1919. These stamps are known to have been heavily counterfeited, the authenticity of the stamps below is unknown.

OKCA

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Special corps, General Rodzyanko, St. Petersburg district. Used. Inscribed OKCA is a Russian acronym (Отдельного Kорпуса Северной Aрмии) meaning 'Special Corps, Army of the Northwest'.

West Russian Army stamps of Latvia (Bermondt-Avalov issue)

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Ordered by general Bermondt-Avalov but never issued.

South Russian Government

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The South Russian Government (Южнорусского Правительства) was a Russian White movement government established by Armed Forces of Denikin in Novorossiysk, Kuban, in March 1920 during the Russian Civil War.

Denikin Government

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Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин); December 16 [O.S. December 4] 1872 – August 8, 1947) was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army (1916) and one of the foremost generals of the White movement in the Russian Civil War.

A total of 11 newly designed stamps were issued, with inscription 'United Russia' and center showing Saint George.

  • Issue date: 1919, June – 1920, March 27.

Essays

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Wrangel Government

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The successor to General Anton Denikin's South Russian Government set up in February 1920. General Pyotr Wrangel was the pravitel' (правитель, "ruler") while the government itself was headed by a Chairman of the Council of Ministers. The government officially assumed the name Government of South Russia on 16 August 1920 and it controlled the area of the former Russian Empire's Taurida Governorate, i.e., the Crimean Peninsula and adjacent areas of the mainland.

The still available stock of Tsarist stamps was overprinted “Почта РУССКОЙ АРМiИ” (Post Russian Army) in black, red or blue and/or surcharged with new values.