Feodor Chuchin

Feodor Grigorovich Chuchin (1883-1942) was an official in the Soviet government who was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. He also was an author on numismatic and philatelic topics.

Feodor Chuchin on a Russian item of postal stationery

Early life and family

Feodor Chuchin was born in 1883.[1]

Career

As an official in the Soviet government, he was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy.[2]

In 1924, he published Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki (paper banknotes) which has become a standard work on the subject.[3]

In 1925, as Commissioner for Philately, Chuchin published his Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps,[4] the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the standard used for those issues.[5]

In 1984, John Barefoot published a revised edition of Chuchin's catalogue as volume 14 of his European Philately series.[6]

Death

Chuchin died in 1942.[1]

Selected publications
  • Bumazhnye Denezhnye Znaki (Paper Banknotes). Moscow, 1924. (Russian language)
  • Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps. Commissioner for Philately and Vouchers of U.S.S.R., Moscow, 1925.
  • Russia Zemstvos. Revised edition. Edited by John Barefoot. J. Barefoot Ltd., York, 1984.

See also

References
  1. Birch, Brian. (2013) Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers. 13th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch, p. 597.
  2. Clark, Charles E. (2000). Uprooting Otherness: The Literacy Campaign in NEP-Era Russia. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-1-57591-030-7.
  3. Lang, David M. (1957). "War Medals and Paper-Money of Georgia in Transcaucasia (1915-24)". Museum Notes (American Numismatic Society). 7: 239–249. JSTOR 43574195.
  4. "Reviews", Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (January 1926), p. 87.
  5. RUSSIA ZEMSTVOS. jbarefoot.co.uk Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  6. Chuchin, F. G. (1984). "Russia zemstvos". York: J. Barefoot. OCLC 314729281.


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