Postal stationery | Stamped envelopes | USSR | 1966

Askania-Nova Zoo. Wisent-Bison Hybrids.

1966

№ 4424

Stamp: 4 kop. (inland rate), ultramarine.

Illustration: Wisent-Bison Hybrids. Inscriptions on Russian and Ukrainian: Askania-Nova Zoo of the Ukrainian scientific research institute of animal industries of steppe areas him. M.F.Ivanov.

Size: 162*114 mm
Paper: paper for offset 2, grayish
Designer: N. S. Stroganova, M. U. Alekseev

Wisent-Bison Hybrids are interspecies hybrids of Wisent (Bison bonasus) with Bison (Bison bison). For the first time has been obtained in 1907 in Russia (in Askania-Nova), by crossing Bison cow and Wisent bull. Backcrossing was successfully produced later.
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