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This is the Tryzub Ukrainian Stamp Album 2003 supplement. This supplement is ©2012 by AndrewPastuszak

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All stamp images were obtained from either personal scans or directly from the philatelic section ofukrposhta.com (http://poshta.kiev.ua/nishop.php?act=shgr&id=1)

Description research is done at one of 4 sites:

Wikipedia ­ http://www.wikipedia.org

The Ukrainian Weekly Focus on Philately Section ­http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2004/190421.shtml

The Ukrainian Electronic Stamp Album ­ http://www.ukrainian­philately.info

The Former Soviet Union New Issues Web Site ­ http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/index.html

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Commemorative Stamps

Military History ofUkraine

This four stamp se­tenantshows four differentbattles from Ukraine'shistory: war with theGoths, 4th century AD inthe upper left, alliancewith the Huns, 5th centuryAD in the upper right,assault on the Balkans,6th century in the bottomleft, and Avar attack, 6thcentury AD in the bottomright,

Ukrainian Folk Tales

Continuing their series of Ukrainian folk tales stamps, the 2003 stampsshow characters from 3 folk tales: Koza­Dereza, Straw bull, Fox andCrane.

Speed Skating

Speed Skating is a competitive form ofice skating in which the competitorsrace each other in traveling a certaindistance on skates. The speed skatingrink is usually a 400 meter oval and theskaters race in pairs.

Shipbuilding inUkraine

The 2003 Shipbuildingstamps feature thesteamer Hriznyi on the leftand the ship Odessa onthe right.

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Yavoriv NationalNatural Park

Yavoriv National NaturePark was founded in 1999for not only preservationbut for restaration andrational usage of naturallandscapes of Roztochyaas well. During the shortperiod of time scientific,eco­educational work wasorganized here, ecologicalpasses were created,local people were involvedin nature protectionactivities.

Poster Art

The 2003 Europa stamp theme was Poster Art. Ukraineissued a se­tenant pair and and booklet. The left stampsshows the Virgin Mary with a dove of peace. The rightstamp shows a guardian angel holding a flower.

Mykola Arkas

Mykola Arkas was a Ukrainiancomposer, writer, historian, and culturalactivist. Arkas completed his studies inphysics and mathematics at theUniversity of Odessa and served in theBlack Sea Fleet. Arkas was the authorof a popular History of Ukraine (1908).

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Poster Art Booklet

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Boris Gmyrya

Boris Gmyrya was a greatUkrainian basso cantantesinger of opera and artsong. During World WarII, he stayed in Nazi­occupied Poltava wherehe performed for theGermans

AleksanderMyszuga

Aleksander Myszuga wasa Polish operatic tenorand voice teacher ofUkrainian descent. Hestudied voice with WaleryWysocki in Lviv and withGiovanni Sbriglia in Paris.He performed with majorEuropean opera houses.

Vladimir Chelomey

Vladimir Chelomey was a Soviet mechanicsscientist and rocket engineer from Ukraine. Hewas appointed the Chief Designer of the OKB­52rocket design bureau. There he designed theProton rocket, still in use today for unmannedspace flights, such as sattelite launches.

Valentin Glushko

Valentin Glushko was a Soviet engineer, andthe principal Soviet designer of rocket enginesduring the Soviet/American Space Race. In1946 he became the chief designer of his ownbureau, the OKB 456, and remained at thisposition until 1974. This bureau would play aprominent role in the development of rocketengines within the Soviet Union.

Konstantin Konstantinov

Konstantin Konstantinov was a Russian artilleryofficer and scientist in the fields of artillery,rocketry and instrument making. Konstantinov isknown to have created structurally perfectmissiles (for the 19th century) with the range of 4to 5 km, launch pads, and rocket­makingmachines. He authored a number of works onrocket science, artillery, firearms, pyrotechnics,and aeronautics. A crater on the far side of theMoon is named after Konstantin Konstantinov.

Alexander Zasyadko

Alexander Zasyadko was a Russian­Ukrainiangunner and specialist in rocketry. In 1815,Zasyadko began his work on creating militarygunpowder rockets. He constructed rocket­launching platforms, which allowed to fire insalvos (6 rockets at a time), and gun­layingdevices. In 1834, Zasyadko retired due to hisillness. The crater Zasyadko on the far side ofthe Moon is named after him.

Space Pioneers

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Summer Holidays

Two different Ukrainianholidays are portrayed.The stamp on the left por­trays the holiday"Makoviya," wherreflowers, water and poppyplants are brough tochurch to be blessed.The stamp on the rightportrays the holiday Spas,where fresh fruit isbrought to church to beblessed.

Hryhory Kvitka­Osnovyanenko

Hryhory Kvitka­Osnovy­anenko was a Ukrainianwriter, journalist, andplaywright. Kvitka wasone of the earliest pro­ponents of Ukrainian as aliterary language andbegan publishing in thefirst Ukrainian literaryjournals printed in Kharkivin the early 19th century.

Ukrainian Red Cross

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society is a non­profithumanitarian and charitable association ofUkraine. It operates in disaster management,health and care, tracing service, youthactivities/volunteers, protection of human dignity.

Ivan Skoropadsky

Born into a noble Cossack family in Uman,Ukraine in 1646, Skoropadsky was educated inKyiv­Mohyla Academy. In 1675 he joinedCossack military service under Hetman IvanSamoylovych and distinguished himself inRusso­Turkish War of 1676–1681 and onceagain in the Crimean expedition against theOttoman Empire and Crimean Khanate in 1688.

Kyrulo Rozumovsky

Kyrylo Rozumovsky was a Ukrainian RegisteredCossack from the Kozelets regiment in north­eastern Ukraine, who served as the last Hetmanof Left­ (from 1750) and Right­Bank (from 1754)Ukraine until 1764. Rozumovsky wassubsequently elected Hetman of the sovereignZaporozhian Host in 1759, a position that hemanaged to nominally preserve until 1769, eventhough he had lost all power to exercise thisoffice and abdicated in November 1764.

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Lviv Oblast

Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine.The oblast's strategic position at the heart ofcentral Europe and as the gateway to theCarpathians has caused it to change handsmany times over the centuries.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of centralUkraine, the most important industrial region ofthe country. It has more than 1700 kinds ofvegetation, 7500 kinds of animals (including elk,wild boar, dappled deer, roe, hare, fox, wolf, etc.)There are also 114 parks.

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

The Khmelnytskyi Oblast is situated at ahistorical crossroad of the railway and highwayroutes connecting Central Europe to Black Seacoast and Russia. The Khmelnyts'ka nuclearpower plant in the city of Netishyn is the mostimportant industrial company of the oblast.

Mykolaiv Oblast

This oblast's population density is one of thelowest in Ukraine ­ 52 people per 1 km².Notable points of interest in the onlast includeOlbia, an ancient Greek city, who's harbour wasone of the main emporia on the Black Sea, andWild Garden, a port city mentioned in Homer's"The Odyssey.

Zaporizhia Oblast

The Zaporizhia oblast is located in thesoutheastern part of Ukraine. A strategic locationof the oblast is emphasized by its equal distancefrom European and Asian markets. The oblasttakes a leading place in Ukraine in the varietyand wealth of mineral raw material resources. Ithas considerable resources of iron andmanganese ores.

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Vladimir IIMonomakh

Vladimir Monomakh was aVelikiy Kniaz (GrandPrince) of Kievan Rus'.He enacted a number ofreforms in order to allaythe social tensions in thecapital. These years sawthe last flowering of An­cient Rus, which was tornapart 10 years after hisdeath. Vladimir Mono­makh is buried in theSaint Sophia Cathedral inKiev. Succeeding genera­tions often referred to hisreign as the golden age ofthat city

View Of Podol From StchekavitsyKievo­Pechorskaya Lavra,

Uspensky Cathedral

St. Irina CloisterView Of Old City From

Yaroslavsky Val

Painting of Kiev

The 2003 Paints of Kiev feature the works of two artists. View of Old City From Yaroslavsky Val andKievo­Pechorskaya Lavra, Uspensky Cathedral are both painted by in 1854 and 1857. St. IrinaCloister and View of Podol From Stchekavitsky are both painted by Mikhail Sazhin in 1846 and 1840.

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Owls of Ukraine

This sheet of 12 stampsfeatures the following owlspecies from upper rightto botton left: Bubo bubo­ Eurasian Eagle­Owl,Strix uralensis ­ Ural Owl,Strix aluco ­ Tawny Owl,Strix nebulosa, ­ GreatGrey Owl, Glaucidiumpasserinum ­ EurasianPygmy Owl, Aegolius fu­nereus ­ Boreal Owl, Otusscops ­ Eurasian ScopsOwl, Athene noctua ­ LittleOwl, Tyto alba ­ BarnOwl, Asio otus ­ Long­eared Owl, Asio flammeus­ Short­eared Owl, andSurnia ulula ­ NorthernHawk­Owl.

Christmas

The 2003 Christmas stampshows a folk­stylish interpreta­tion of the Nativity scene.

New Year

The New Year issue showedFather Frost deliveringpresents to a well­lit house.

Holodomor

The Holodomor was a man­made famine in theUkrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933. Duringthe famine millions of Ukrainians died of starva­tion in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedentedin the history of Ukraine. Recent research es­timates the death toll tohave been between 2.4and 7.5 million.

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Ancient TradingRoutes

This stamp wasa jointissue with Estonia. Thehorizontal stamps recallthe medieval trade routefrom the Baltic shores,down the Dnipro River,through the Black Sea, toConstantinople. Bothstamps show an ancientcoin and a waterbornevessel.

Yevpatoria

One of Ukraine's oldest cities is Yevpatoria,founded as the Greek colony of Kerkinitida in the5th century BC. The 2,500th anniversary of theCrimean port was remembered on a stampshowing a waterfront scene and the city' s coatof arms.

Monasteries

The Maniavsky Hermitagein the Ivano­FrankivskOblast of westernUkraine, founded in theearly 17th century, wasthe subject of Ukraine'sthird souvenir sheet of theyear. The site was a mon­astic center for over 150years until it closed in1785. Restored during the1970s, today it is a re­gional museum.

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Ancient Trading Routes Booklets

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Ancient Trading Routes Booklets

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Traditional Costumes

These stamps depict the native costumes worn by individuals in diffrent regions during specific folk cultural orreligious celebrations.

The first area represented is Kharkivshchyna Region. The first stamp shows the religious holiday The Annunci­ation. The second stamp shows the Feast of St. Andrew

The second area represented is the Sumshchyna Region. The first stamp shows a traditional marriage proposal.The second stamp shows the making of a wedding wreath.

The third area represented is the Donechyna Region. The first stamps shows the start of Lent. The second stampshows a Harvest Festival.

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Traditional Costumes Souvenir Sheet

The Traditional Costumes stamps were also available as a souvenir sheet.

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Definitive Stamps

LilacGuelder­RoseSunflower Wheat Trident

5th Definitive Series

These stamps are the same as the 2001 Definitive. All the stamps are micro­printed with the date 2003.

Trolley­Bus

4th Definitive Series

This is the same trolley­busstamp that was issued in1995 Transportation Series.It has a micro­printed"2003" underneath thecountry name "Ukraina"

Hollyhocks Marigolds Blue Cornflower Sweat Peas

6th Definitive Series

These stamps are the same as the 2002 Definitives with the addition of the 65k sweet pea stamp. All the stamps are micro­printed with thedate 2003.

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