Soviet Philatelist

{{Short description|Soviet Russian-language magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Soviet Philatelist<br/>(Soviet Collector) | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Sovetskij kollekcioner.1925.jpg | image_size = 255px | image_alt = Cover of the Soviet Collector's January 1925 issue showing a photo from the 1st Congress of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists | image_caption = Cover of the Soviet Collector's January 1925 issue showing a photo from the 1st Congress of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists  | editor = Kazimir Dunin-Barkovsky (1928–1932) | editor_title = Editor-in-chief | editor2 = V. A. Bessonov (''Soviet Collector''){{efn|When it was published under one cover of the three-part magazine.}} | editor_title2 = Editor | previous_editor = Feodor Chuchin (1922–1928)<br/>Piotr Butkevich (1928–1932)<br/>Albert Danzig (1928–1932) | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Philately | frequency = Monthly | format = 24 cm | circulation = 2000 (in 1922) | publisher = Feodor Chuchin | founder = Feodor Chuchin | founded = {{start date and age|1922|||df=y}} | firstdate = {{start date and age|1922|9|df=y}} | finaldate = {{end date and age|1932|12|df=y}} | finalnumber = Vol. 11, No. 12 | company = Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily, All-Russian Society of Philatelists | country = USSR | based = Moscow | language = Russian | oclc = 497315537 }} '''''Soviet Philatelist''''' or '''''Sovetskii Filatelist'''''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Советский филателист}}.}} was a Soviet central philatelic magazine published in 1922–1932 by the All-Russian Society of Philatelists.<ref name=Filateliia>{{cite book|editor1-last=Прохоров, А. М. |title=Большая советская энциклопедия: в 30 т. (1970–1979)|trans-title=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia|access-date=2015-06-08|edition=3rd|volume=27 (Ульяновск – Франкфорт)|year=1977|publisher=Советская энциклопедия [Soviet Encyclopedia]|location=М. [Moscow]|language=ru, en|trans-chapter=Philately of the USSR|chapter=Филателия СССР [Filateliia SSSR]|chapter-url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Filateliia+SSSR}}</ref><ref name=Ivanova>{{cite web|url=http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/traditions/2706|title=Philately in Russia, Part 2. Philately in the RSFSR and the USSR|author=Ivanova, V.|date=2015-02-23|work=Russia-IC: Culture & Arts: Manners, Customs and Traditions|publisher=Russia-InfoCentre; Guarant-InfoCentre|access-date=2015-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703172113/http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/traditions/2706|url-status=live|archive-date=2015-07-03}}</ref> For a number of years, in 1925 and in 1928–1932, its name was changed to '''''Soviet Collector''''' or '''''Sovetskii Kollektsioner'''''.{{efn|{{langx|ru|Советский коллекционер}}.}}<ref name=Filateliia/><ref name=Rossica>{{cite journal|author=Polchaninov, R.|author2=Translated by G. Shalimoff and D. Skipton|year=1986|title=From the history of philately in the USSR|journal=Rossica: Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately|volume=108–109|pages=46–52|issn=0035-8363|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080531/http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|archive-date=2015-05-24|url-status=live|access-date=2015-05-15|quote=Reprinted from 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo', New York, 27 July 1986, in the column 'Collector's Corner'.}}</ref> thumb|left|150px|{{small|Early Soviet periodicals for collectors (top to bottom): ''Russian Collector'', ''North Correspondence'' (2 issues), ''Crimean Collector'', and ''Soviet Philatelist''}}

== History == By 1922, shortly after the Civil War, a number of magazines and pamphlets for collectors appeared in Soviet Russia: * ''Russkii Kollektsioner'' (''Russian Collector''), published in Novocherkassk, * ''Priural'skii Kollektsioner'' (''Ural Collector''), * ''Krymskii Kollektsioner'' (''Crimean Collector''), etc.<ref name=Rossica/>

However, centralisation of collectors' organisations and periodicals was wanted: {{cquote|...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 rather than subsisting on themes such as "all possible stamps of Tibet," or some such? 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'').|4=from ''Russkii Kollektsioner'', 1922, "On the First Issue of ''Priural'skii Kollektsioner''",<br/>cited in ''Filateliya SSSR'', 1985, No. 9.<ref name=Rossica/>}}

By 1924, these local magazines eventually closed down. In September 1922, the new magazine, ''Soviet Philatelist'', first saw print in Moscow.<ref name=Rossica/> Its founder and editor was Feodor Chuchin, the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Прохоров, А. М. |title=Большая советская энциклопедия: в 30 т. (1970–1979)|trans-title=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia|access-date=2015-06-08|edition=3rd|volume=29 (Чаган – Экс-ле-Бен)|year=1978|publisher=Советская энциклопедия [Soviet Encyclopedia]|location=М. [Moscow]|language=ru, en|trans-chapter=Chuchin, Fedor Grigor’evich|chapter=Чучин Фёдор Григорьевич|chapter-url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Chuchin%2c+Fedor+Grigorevich}}</ref>

In 1925, the magazine name was changed to ''Sovetskii Kollektsioner''. The magazine was published biweekly. It was edited by V. A. Bessonov at that time.<ref name=Rossica/>

In 1926 three magazines, ''Sovetskii Filatelist'', ''Sovetskii Kollektsioner'' and ''Radio de Filintern'', were combined. They began to be published under one cover. Their individual lineal numeration was preserved. The last combined issue came out in December 1927.<ref name=Rossica/>

In the first half of 1928, the cover of the combined issues was only under one title, ''Sovetskii Filatelist''. In July 1928, the magazine was renamed to ''Sovetskii Kollektsioner''. It was published by the Soviet Philatelic Association and the All-Russian Society of Philatelists. The last issue appeared in December 1932.<ref name=Ivanova/><ref name=Rossica/> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+Historical outline of publishing ''Soviet Philatelist'' (''Soviet Collector'') !rowspan=2|Title !rowspan=2|Year !colspan=2|Start Issue !colspan=2|End Issue |- !No. (lineal No.) !Date !No. (lineal No.) !Date |- |rowspan=3|''Sovetskii Filatelist'' |1922 |1 |9/1922 |4 |12/1922 |- |1923 |1 |1/1923 |12 |12/1923 |- |1924 |1 (17) |1/1924 |11/12 (27/28) |12/1924 |- !colspan=6|Name change to: |- |''Sovetskii Kollektsioner'' |1925 |1 (29) |1/1925 |23/24 (51/52) |12/1925 |- !colspan=6|Combination of three magazines published under one cover: |- |rowspan=2|''Sovetskii Filatelist'' |1926 |1 (53) |1/1926 |12 (64) |12/1926 |- |1927 |1 (65) |1/1927 |12 (76) |12/1927 |- |rowspan=2|''Sovetskii Kollektsioner'' |1926 |1 (25) |1/1926 |12 (36) |12/1926 |- |1927 |1 (37) |1/1927 |12 (48) |12/1927 |- |rowspan=2|''Radio de Filintern'' |1926 |1 (13) |1/1926 |12 (24) |12/1926 |- |1927 |1 (25) |1/1927 |12 (36) |12/1927 |- !colspan=6|Name change to (still three unique magazines, just one masthead): |- |''Sovetskii Filatelist'' |1928 |1 (77) |1/1928 |6 (82) |6/1928 |- !colspan=6|Name change to: |- |rowspan=6|''Sovetskii Kollektsioner'' |- |1928 |1 (83) |7/1928 |6 (88) |12/1928 |- |1929 |1 (89/91) |1–3/1929 |10/12 (98–100) |10–12/1929 |- |1930 |1 (101) |1/1930 |12 (112) |12/1930 |- |1931 |1 (113) |1/1931 |12 (124) |12/1931 |- |1932 |1 (125) |1/1932 |10/12 (134/136) |10–12/1932 |} thumb|550px|left|{{small|Evolution of the magazine (left to right): ''Soviet Philatelist'' (1928), three-part issue (1926), and ''Soviet Collector'' (1928 and 1931)}} {{-}}

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== Further reading == * {{cite journal|author=Grant, J.|date=July 1995|title=The socialist construction of philately in the early Soviet era|url=http://cabdirect.cab.semcs.net/abstracts/19961801522.html|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=37|issue=3|pages=476–493|doi=10.1017/S0010417500019770|issn=0010-4175|jstor=179216|access-date=2015-05-15|url-access=subscription}} Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20220607025510/http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/179216?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21106833171513 the original] and [https://www.webcitation.org/6YXguzrX2?url=http://cabdirect.cab.semcs.net/abstracts/19961801522.html;jsessionid=D5AB89DF87BFD291068CC77278487A9B another source] on 2015-05-15.

== External links == * {{commons category-inline}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.fabiovstamps.com/forum67.html|title=Brief marks of development of philately|author=Budnik, D.|date=May 2004|work=Forum filatelia e francobolli: Immagini relative ai miei messaggi per il Forum filatelia e francobolli, pagina 67|publisher=CIFR — Centro Italiano Filatelia Resistenza|access-date=2015-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526031502/http://www.fabiovstamps.com/forum67.html|url-status=live|archive-date=2015-05-26}} {{Authority control}}

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