The Best Way To Work On Soviet Union & Russian Stamps

Hi everyone, can anyone put me in the right direction to find out about Russian stamps? it could be a website, a catalog, etc. I have got plenty of classic and modern stamps but I hardly have any knowledge about them,

it is much appreciated, thanks

Stanley Gibbons publishes a catalog that in non-COVID times can perhaps be found in your local library. If you are mainly concerned with the Soviet era and earlier, you can probably buy a gently used older edition for not a lot of money.

If you are still buying stamps from the US, you may need the numbers from the Scott catalog. Each volume is pretty heavy so shipping would be prohibitive even though a copy from a few years back would be inexpensive. There are those online that sell sections by country taken from Scott catalogs.

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00119/citation
Many back issues of the Rossica Society are now online. English language is used from about #44 onward.

Of course, you can ask questions here on SCF. There is a lot on Russia already archived on SCF.

This site is one that I use constantly:

http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews...1/index.html

For more in-depth info you can go to Rossica:

https://www.rossica.org/

You can also find Zagorsky catalogs on ebay. Some are in Russian only but are loaded with useful information that you can figure out easily. Michel catalogs are used pretty much in tandem with Scott when identifying material.

Being a Brit, you probably want to go Stanley Gibbons Catalogue.

If you choose the Scott Catalogue, you can get Russia ripped out of the full catalogue, for $30

https://scottcataloguepages.com/Sea...spx?k=russia

Thank you all, I will take it from here...