Soviet Philatelic Association


Soviet Philatelic Association was a business run by the Soviet Union authorities in the field of philately.

History

Two early philatelic public existed in the Soviet Union. These were All-Russian Society of Philatelists and Philatelic International. In July 1924, an "All-Union Philatelic Association of Socialist Soviet Republics" was formed. It was called the "State Philatelic Organization". This association was entrusted to. He also supervised another state body, Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily. The All-Union Philatelic Association ceased to exist soon after. It lacked a published decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and RSFSR Sovnarkom.
On 25 October 1926, a new association was established in Moscow by VTsIK and Sovnarkom decree. It replaced the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily. SFA sold Soviet stamps to foreign dealers, Soviet philatelists, and schoolboys. These latter glued their stamps into school notebooks because of a lack of stamp albums.
The SFA organ was the journal Sovetskii Filatelist.
In 1938, the Soviet Philatelic Association was replaced with the Chief Philatelic Bureau.