Feodor Chuchin
Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin (1883 – 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.
Feodor Chuchin | |
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 Feodor Chuchin on a Russian item of postal stationery | |
| Born | 1883 |
| Died | 1942 (aged 58) |
Early life and family
Feodor Chuchin was born in 1883.[1]
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 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.
References
- Birch, Brian. (2013) Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers. 13th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch, p. 597.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Reviews", Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (January 1926), p. 87.
- RUSSIA ZEMSTVOS. jbarefoot.co.uk Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- Chuchin, F. G. (1984). "Russia zemstvos". York: J. Barefoot. OCLC 314729281.
