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A child’s painting of Moscow: the towers of the Kremlin on the left and the coloured domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral on the right, with the words “Indo-Soviet Issue” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6.50 stamp.
An Indian Child’s Moscow
India Post issued two stamps on 16 August 1990, ₹1 and ₹6.50, as a joint venture with the Soviet Union. Both are first-prize designs from a competition held in the second half of 1989 among children under seventeen: Indian children drew a Russian subject, and Soviet children an Indian one. This view of Moscow is the winning Indian entry. St. Basil’s Cathedral, built on Red Square between 1555 and 1561, stands beside the Kremlin. India and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations in 1947, and Soviet help went into the industries of Bhilai, Ranchi, Durgapur, Haridwar, Bokaro and Visakhapatnam. The two countries signed a Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Co-operation in August 1971 and the Delhi Declaration in November 1986.
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