Coats of arms of cities, towns and villages of Ukraine are standard postage stamps.

Coats of Arms of Cities, Towns, and Villages of Ukraine Stamp Sheet 2024

The stamp sheet "Coats of Arms of Cities, Towns, and Villages of Ukraine" for 2024 is like a journey through the country's symbols and history. You perceive it not just as a sheet with stamps, but as a part of cultural heritage.

Artist Yuriy Ryabchynskyy skillfully incorporated the soul of each locality into the standard sheet. With 19 stamps and 2 coupons, following the ninth standard issue of postage stamps, the sheet reveals the diversity of coats of arms of 12 cities, 5 towns, and 4 villages.

This journey covers the entire Ukraine—from Kyiv to Lviv, from Odesa to Dnipro. Particularly striking is the inclusion of the coats of arms of cities temporarily occupied, such as Yalta and Yenakiyeve. It's like an attempt to preserve their history and essence in challenging times.

The coats of arms are intricately embedded in shields and crowned with heraldic crowns. They tell the stories of cities and villages—those that were once cities and those that have always remained villages. Another hidden feature of the stamps is the symbolism of the crowns. Cities have silver urban crowns, villages with red wreaths, and those that were once cities but lost that status have red urban crowns.

The sheet "Coats of Arms of Cities and Towns of Ukraine" was originally planned for release in 2022, but circumstances led to its postponement to 2024. Despite external war and aggression, within each stamp lies the beauty and diversity of Ukraine.

The following coats of arms of Ukrainian cities are reproduced on the stamp sheet:

- Stamp No. 1569-A "Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast," nominal value — "T";

- Stamp No. 1570-A "Marynyn, Rivne Oblast," nominal value — "N";

- Stamp No. 1571-A "Smt Klesiv, Rivne Oblast," nominal value — "M";

- Stamp No. 1572-A "Yenakiyeve, Donetsk Oblast," nominal value — "L";

- Stamp No. 1573-A "Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast," nominal value — "F";

- Stamp No. 1574-A "Smt Shatsk, Volyn Oblast," nominal value — "Kh";

- Stamp No. 1575-A "Parutino, Mykolaiv Oblast," nominal value — "P";

- Stamp No. 1632-A "Smt Lokachi, Volyn Oblast," nominal value — "D";

- Stamp No. 1810-A "Burshtyn, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast," nominal value — "T";

- Stamp No. 1811-A "Smt Staryi Merchyk, Kharkiv Oblast," nominal value — "N";

- Stamp No. 1848-A "Kryvche, Ternopil Oblast," nominal value — "D";

- Stamp No. 1849-A "Fontanka, Odesa Oblast," nominal value — "M";

- Stamp No. 1851-A "Tetiiv, Kyiv Oblast," nominal value — "F";

- Stamp No. 1926-A "Bolhrad, Odesa Oblast," nominal value — "N";

- Stamp No. 1927-A "Smt Koropets, Ternopil Oblast," nominal value — "M";

- Stamp No. 1955-A "Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast," nominal value — "D";

- Stamp No. 1956-A "Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast," nominal value — "F";

- Stamp No. 1965-A "Komarno, Lviv Oblast," nominal value — "T";

- Stamp No. 1975-A "Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast," nominal value — "N."

The format of each stamp is 24.48x22 mm. The format of the special stamp sheet is 176x117 mm.

The sheet contains 19 stamps + 2 coupons. The print run of the sheet is 37,500 copies (including 13,500 copies of imperforated and numbered sheets).

Additionally, an imperforated stamp sheet No. 38-B has been printed for: inclusion in souvenir booklets (numbered), placement in the book "Postage Stamps of Ukraine 2024," and to encourage philatelic activists. This sheet will be quite interesting for philatelic collectors.

Information about the series of stamps "Coats of Arms of Cities, Towns, and Villages of Ukraine"

It should be noted that stamps with the coats of arms of Ukrainian settlements were first issued in 2017. At present, Ukrposhta has released and accepts for payment standard stamps with coats of arms.