SOVIET-ERA POSTCARD AND STAMP, first issued in 1973, commemorated the 70th birth anniversary of Arctic explorer and radio operator explorer Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (1903 - 1971).The stamp design portrayed Krenkel and an aircraft above an arctic scene. A circular cancellation mark is from the "Severny Polyus" (North Pole) research station, dated 7 January 1978; whereas the purple cancellation states Leningrad. The original denomination was 4 kopecks.
The postcard was published by the All-Union Society of Philatelists and the USSR Ministry of Communications in Moscow in 1973.
The handwritten text states coordinates 154 degrees and 33 minutes and 85 degrees and 58 minutes.
Ernst Krenkel was a member of the historic "North Pole-1" drifting ice station expedition, for which he was named a "Hero of the Soviet Union" in 1938.
He was a passionate amateur radio operator and used the notable call signs RAEM, U3AA, and UA3AA.
After his death in 1971, a polar research vessel and an observatory on Heiss Island were named in his honour.
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