OREANDA-NEWS. The opening ceremony of the first stamp shop took place in the General Post Office in Saint Petersburg.

V. Gorbatko, pilot-astronaut, two-times Hero of the Soviet Union, President of the Union of Philatelists of the RF and Igor Mandrikin, Deputy Director General of FSUE Russian Post took part in the opening ceremony.

The participants and guests of the ceremony watched bright theatre show "Live stamps" in which musicians, actors of opera and ballet demonstrated their view of famous postage stamps and blocks devoted to the dates in the history of Russia and outstanding persons of Russian art, ballet dancer Agrippina Vaganova and composer Igor Stravinskiy, 250th anniversary of Russian theatre and 300th anniversary of Saint Petersburg.

The culmination of the holiday was the performance of signing of the Order on the first official postal shop establishment by Peter the Great. Right after this Viktor Gorbatko and Igor Mandrikin opened the stamp shop in the General post office in Saint Petersburg.