Definitive stamps of Russia

Among these, five stamps showed the agricultural-labour design, printed in different colours and with face values of 1-, 2-, 100-, 200-, and 300 roubles.

To a certain degree, designs of the series, focusing more on agriculture and industry, were in conformity with the spirit of the government's New Economic Policy of 1921 aimed at recovering the RSFSR economy.

"[3] Reflecting new political goals, RSFSR postage stamps provided visual messages of the values and major social groups within Soviet society.

Portraying the three social groups, the RSFSR's final definitive issues in 1922 and 1923 depicted the worker, the soldier, and the peasant that constituted the Soviet state.

These were stylistic representations in the form of classical busts resembling portraits of monarchs and other heads of state on stamps of other countries.

[2] Replacing the portraits of the tsars, depiction of the three social groups was on purpose, because the Soviet government "specifically decided to create images which would symbolise the idea of worker-peasant power.

It included two stamps with face values of 20- and 30 kopecks that depicted Saint George and the Millennium of Russia monument.

In the early and mid 1990s, this definitive series of stamps continuously expanded due to hyperinflation and a corresponding change in postal rates.

The difference from the fourth issue, of a close topic, was the expansion of denominations up to 100 roubles as well as the availability of additional security features to protect against counterfeiting.