Feodor Chuchin

Feodor Chuchin
Feodor Chuchin on a Russian item of postal stationery
Born17 April 1883
Zaymishche Kirillovsky Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Died15 January 1942 (aged 58)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin (Russian: Фёдор Григорьевич Чучин; 17 April 1883 – 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.[1] 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.[2]

In 1924, he published Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki (paper banknotes) which has become a standard work on the subject.[3] 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,[4] the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the standard used for those issues.[5]

In 1984, John Barefoot published a revised edition of Chuchin's catalogue as volume 14 of his European Philately series.[6]

Death

Chuchin died in 1942.[1]

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Birch, Brian. (2013) Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers. 13th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch, p. 597.
  2. ^ Clark, Charles E. (2000). Uprooting Otherness: The Literacy Campaign in NEP-Era Russia. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-1-57591-030-7.
  3. ^ Lang, David M. (1957). "War Medals and Paper-Money of Georgia in Transcaucasia (1915-24)". Museum Notes (American Numismatic Society). 7: 239–249. JSTOR 43574195.
  4. ^ "Reviews", Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (January 1926), p. 87.
  5. ^ RUSSIA ZEMSTVOS. jbarefoot.co.uk Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  6. ^ Chuchin, F. G. (1984). "Russia zemstvos". York: J. Barefoot. OCLC 314729281.


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