№ 1197. The year of 2007 – a year of Russian language. All-Russian contest “I am painting the alphabet”.

In 2007 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin announced the year 2007 to be Russian Language Year in the frames of which there will be held cultural, scientific and educational events organized to make Russian language and literature more popular and to support its educational programs in Russian and abroad. One of the events devoted to the Russian Language Year is the All-Russian contest of stamp drawing “I am drawing the alphabet”, organized by the national mail service “Post of Russia” in association with the publishing firm “Marka” and Russian Federation of Philately, also devoted to the 150th anniversary of the first Russian postal stamp. At the block are the works of contest winners: the winner in the category “Children’s works” is Bogdan Kalmykov, 10 years old, Tambov with his “Rainbow of letters”, in the category “Teenagers’ works” - Regina Zangieva, 15 years old, Beslan, North Ossetia with work “I am drawing the alphabet”, in the category of “Youth’ works” - Dmitry Smirnov, 17 years old, Pogrebnoe, Khanty-Mansisk autonomous area with the work “Star alphabet”, and in the category “Professional works” - Vladimir Beloborodov, 68 years old, Nizhny Novgorod with the work “Alphabet”.