Улаанбаатар
Postage Stamps Mongolists Put into Circulation
Society
Ulaanbaatar, August 12, 2023 /MONTSAME/ A solemn ceremony of
cancellation of postage stamps issued on the theme "Mongolists" took
place in the Chinggis Khaan Museum.
First time five personalized
stamps dedicated to the first International Congress of Mongolists were issued in
1959. This time the stamps depict the famous Mongolian educator, scientist
Tseveen Jamsran (1881-1942), Mongolist, Academician of the USSR Academy of
Sciences Boris Yakovlevich Vladimirtsov (1884-1931), American Orientalist,
Professor Owen Lattimore (1900-1989), famous German Mongolist of Austrian
origin Professor Walther Heissig (1913-2005), Japanese Mongolist Shigeo Ozawa (1926-2017),
Italian historian and philologist Mongolist Igor de Rachewiltz (1929-2016).
Artist G. Battur, designer Zh. Gankhuyag, International Association for Mongol Studies, Chinggis Khaan Museum and other scientists worked together to create the stamps.
