[c][1][3] By 1922, shortly after the Civil War, a number of magazines and pamphlets for collectors appeared in Soviet Russia: However, centralisation of collectors' organisations and periodicals was wanted: ...Instead of dissipating our forces, wouldn't it be better to rally all Russian collectors around one banner, the outline of which is already sufficiently drawn, and produce monthly handbooks containing articles of a serious nature?

This is an important question, and as far as the journal we are contemplating is concerned, its external and internal appearance should be more pleasing than Krymskii Kollektsioner (Crimean Collector).By 1924, these local magazines eventually closed down.

[3] Its founder and editor was Feodor Chuchin, the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily.

[3] In the first half of 1928, the cover of the combined issues was only under one title, Sovetskii Filatelist.

It was published by the Soviet Philatelic Association and the All-Russian Society of Philatelists.