Sacha (Yakutia)

Sacha, also known as Yakutia, or Республика Саха (Якутия) is a huge republic in the eastern Russian Federation. We'll make it clear from the start: Sacha IS Yakutia. If you like the cold, this is the place for you.

While it is real, it does not and never issued its own stamps; the stamps supposedly being issued by it are not real.

Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with САХА / ПОЧТА, РЕСПУБЛИКА / САХА-ЯКУТИА, Postage YAKUTIA or ЯКУТИА . Various topical sheetlets, etc. followed, inscribed Republic of Sacha-Yakutia, SACHA-JAKUTIA, САХА ЯКУТИА, САХА-ЯКУТИА, SAХAЛИН (huh?), YAKUTIA-SACHA, YAKUTIA, РЕСПУБЛИКА ЯКУТИА and bilingually. These are probably not the only inscriptions used. At the next stamp counterfeiters convention, the different printers need to get together and decide what wrong name to use. Not that they really care.  File:Sacha Yakutia bears.jpg|bogus surcharge on Soviet stamp. File:Sacha dog.jpg|Who is worse, people who sell you sheetlets of fakes or the ones who break them up to sell singly? File:Sacha cat.jpg|Huh? Where's Sachalia? File:Sacha (Yakutia) dogs.jpg 

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