№ 1381. The 50th anniversary of the Strategic Rocket forces.

        Strategic rocket forces (SRF) - an independent kind of armed forces, aimed at realization of measures of nuclear dissuasion and defeat of the strategic targets, which form the basis of military and military-economic potential of the enemy.
         In 2009, strategic rocket forces celebrate their 50th anniversary. On December 17, 1959 the Council of Ministers’ Decree № 1384-615 was issued and it fixed the decision, adopted earlier, on creation of a new kind of armed forces. 
           The stamp presents the emblem of the strategic rocket forces, land-based mobile missile system «Topol», start-up of a heavy missile «Voevoda».