All-Russian Society of Philatelists

All-Russian Society of Philatelists (Russian: Всероссийское общество филателистов) was the first national philatelic organisation in Soviet Russia established in 1923.

Later on, it was subsequently renamed and reorganised into the All-Union Society of Philatelists (Russian: Всесоюзное общество филателистов)[b] and the All-Union Society of Collectors (Russian: Всесоюзное общество коллекционеров).

[2] In 1922, the idea of a new countrywide philatelic society was supported by the Russian Bureau of Philately at the RSFSR National Commissariat of Post and Telegraphs.

On 15 March 1923, the charter of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists was approved.

[4] The society's branches worked in Yerevan, Tiflis, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Baku, and other cities.

Membership card of the Society, Section of Junior Philatelists, 1924