Kolguyev Island

Kolguyev Island, or остров Колгуев, is an island in the Barents Sea, part of the Russian Federation. That means it's in the Arctic. And at last count, there were only about 200 people living in one settlement there. Though that won't stop those stamp printers with old Russian geography books, will it?

While Kolguyev Island is real, it does not issue its own stamps; the stamps appearing since the 1990s supposedly being issued by it are not genuine. You may wonder how and if the natives can send a birthday card to their favorite reindeer; it remains a mystery. Meanwhile these "stamps" are completely bogus. Fake. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with ОСТРОВ КОЛГУЕВ or '''О. КОЛГУЕВ''', including various topical images. Topical sheetlets have followed, inscribed bilingually КОЛГУЕВ / ISLAND KOLGUEV.  File:Kolguyev fish.jpg File:Kolguyev seals.jpg|From one of the sea life sheetlets. 

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