Feodor Chuchin

{{Short description|Russian government official (1883–1942)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | image = File:USSR PKsOM Chuchin 1983.jpg | caption = Feodor Chuchin on a Russian item of postal stationery | birth_date = 17 April 1883 | birth_place = Zaymishche Kirillovsky Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = 15 January 1942 (aged 58) | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union }}

'''Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin''' (Russian: Фёдор Григорьевич Чучин; 17 April 1883 {{endash}} 15 January 1942) was an official in the Soviet government who was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. He also was an author on numismatic and philatelic topics and is considered to be the founder of Soviet philately.

==Early life and career == Feodor Chuchin was born in 1883 in to a peasant family.<ref name=birch>Birch, Brian. (2013) ''Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers''. 13th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch, p. 597.</ref> In 1904 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

==Career== As an official in the Soviet government, he was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy.<ref name="Clark2000">{{cite book|author=Clark, Charles E.|title=Uprooting Otherness: The Literacy Campaign in NEP-Era Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMlipw64T9QC&pg=PA22|year=2000|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|location=Selinsgrove|isbn=978-1-57591-030-7|pages=22–23}}</ref>

In 1924, he published ''Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki'' (paper banknotes) which has become a standard work on the subject.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43574195|jstor = 43574195|title = War Medals and Paper-Money of Georgia in Transcaucasia (1915-24)|last1 = Lang|first1 = David M.|journal = Museum Notes (American Numismatic Society)|year = 1957|volume = 7|pages = 239–249}}</ref> In the same year he became founder and editor of the magazine ''Soviet Philatelist'' as well as the founder and chairman of the Soviet Philatelic Association.

In 1925, as Commissioner for Philately, Chuchin published his ''Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps'',<ref>"Reviews", ''Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal'', Vol. 25, No. 4 (January 1926), p. 87.</ref> the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the standard used for those issues.<ref>[https://www.jbarefoot.co.uk/philatelic-literature-for-sale/russia/russia-zemstvos.htm RUSSIA ZEMSTVOS.] jbarefoot.co.uk Retrieved 22 May 2021.</ref>

In 1984, John Barefoot published a revised edition of Chuchin's catalogue as volume 14 of his European Philately series.<ref>{{cite book| last=Chuchin | first=F. G. | title=Russia zemstvos | publisher=J. Barefoot | publication-place=York | year=1984 | oclc=314729281}}</ref>

==Death== Chuchin died in 1942.<ref name=birch/>

==Selected publications== * ''Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki'' (Paper Banknotes). Moscow, 1924. (Russian language) * ''Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps''. Commissioner for Philately and Vouchers of U.S.S.R., Moscow, 1925. * ''Russia Zemstvos''. Revised edition. Edited by John Barefoot. J. Barefoot Ltd., York, 1984.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *{{commons category-inline|Feodor Chuchin}}

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