This annual publication started in 1963 and covered the history and design of postage stamps, and other related topics.

[1] For a number of earlier years, there was a magazine Sovetskii Kollektsioner (Soviet Collector).

Sovetskii Kollektsioner contained research articles in philately and other forms of collecting.

Parmenov wrote an article entitled The First Soviet Postage Stamps.

They were based on a design by Rihards Zariņš that depicted a hand with a sword cutting a chain.