Soviet Philatelist

***Soviet Philatelist*** or ***Sovetskii Filatelist*** was a Soviet central philatelic magazine published in 1922–1932. In 1925 and in 1928–1932, its name was changed to ***Soviet Collector*** or ***Sovetskii Kollektsioner***.

## History

By 1922, shortly after the Civil War, a number of magazines and pamphlets for collectors appeared in Soviet Russia:
- _Russkii Kollektsioner_ (_Russian Collector_), published in Novocherkassk,
- _Priural'skii Kollektsioner_ (_Ural Collector_),
- _Krymskii Kollektsioner_ (_Crimean Collector_), etc.

However, centralisation of collectors' organisations and periodicals was wanted:

By 1924, these local magazines eventually closed down. In September 1922, the new magazine, _Soviet Philatelist_, first saw print in Moscow. Its founder and editor was F. G. Chuchin, Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily.

In 1925, the magazine name was changed to _Sovetskii Kollektsioner_. The magazine was published biweekly. It was edited by V. A. Bessonov at that time.

In 1926 three magazines, _Sovetskii Filatelist_, _Sovetskii Kollektsioner_ and _Radio de Filintern_, were combined. They began to be published under one cover. Their individual lineal numeration was  preserved. The last combined issue came out in December 1927.

In the first half of 1928, the cover of the combined issues was only under one title, _Sovetskii Filatelist_. In July 1928, the magazine was renamed to _Sovetskii Kollektsioner_. It was published by the Soviet Philatelic Association and the All-Russian Society of Philatelists. The last issue appeared in December 1932.
|rowspan=2|Title|rowspan=2|Year|colspan=2|Start Issue|colspan=2|End Issue|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|_Sovetskii Filatelist_|1922|1|9/1922|4|12/1922||
|1923|1|1/1923|12|12/1923||||
|1924|1 (17)|1/1924|11/12 (27/28)|12/1924||||
|_Sovetskii Kollektsioner_|1925|1 (29)|1/1925|23/24 (51/52)|12/1925|||
|rowspan=2|_Sovetskii Filatelist_|1926|1 (53)|1/1926|12 (64)|12/1926||
|1927|1 (65)|1/1927|12 (76)|12/1927||||
|rowspan=2|_Sovetskii Kollektsioner_|1926|1 (25)|1/1926|12 (36)|12/1926||
|1927|1 (37)|1/1927|12 (48)|12/1927||||
|rowspan=2|_Radio de Filintern_|1926|1 (13)|1/1926|12 (24)|12/1926||
|1927|1 (25)|1/1927|12 (36)|12/1927||||
|_Sovetskii Filatelist_|1928|1 (77)|1/1928|6 (82)|6/1928|||
|rowspan=6|_Sovetskii Kollektsioner_|||||||
|1928|1 (83)|7/1928|6 (88)|12/1928||||
|1929|1 (89/91)|1–3/1929|10/12 (98–100)|10–12/1929||||
|1930|1 (101)|1/1930|12 (112)|12/1930||||
|1931|1 (113)|1/1931|12 (124)|12/1931||||
|1932|1 (125)|1/1932|10/12 (134/136)|10–12/1932||||

## Related pages

- All-Russian Society of Philatelists
- First All-Union Philatelic Exhibition
- Leniniana
- Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily
- Philatelic International
- Philately
- Soviet Philatelic Association

## Further reading

- Archived from the original and another source on 2015-05-15.

## Infobox (magazine)

- **title**: Soviet Philatelist
(Soviet Collector)
- **image file**: Sovetskij kollekcioner.1925.jpg
- **image size**: 255px
- **image alt**: Cover of the Soviet Collector's January 1925 issue showing a photo from the 1st Congress of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists
- **image caption**: <small>Cover of the Soviet Collector's January 1925 issue showing a photo from the 1st Congress of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists</small>
- **editor**: Kazimir Dunin-Barkovsky (1928–1932)
- **editor title**: Editor-in-Chief
- **editor2**: V. A. Bessonov (_Soviet Collector_)
- **editor title2**: Editor
- **category**: philately
- **frequency**: monthly
- **circulation**: 2000 (in 1922)
- **publisher**: Feodor Chuchin
- **founder**: Feodor Chuchin
- **finaldate**: December 1932
- **finalnumber**: Vol. 11, No. 12
- **company**: Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily, All-Russian Society of Philatelists
- **country**: USSR
- **based**: Moscow
- **language**: Russian
- **oclc**: 497315537