Ural Republic

The Ural Republic, or Уральская Республика, was a self-declared republic of the Russian Federation, the Sverdlovsk oblast and others joining in an economic partnership in July 1993. This was returned to being the Sverdlovsk oblast in November of that year. Nice try.

While the Ural Republic was once real, it did not issue its own stamps; the stamps appearing since the 1990s supposedly being issued by it are not genuine, particularly the ones that appeared after the Ural Republic was no more. Or are the fakers just using names of vaguely-defined regions now? Beginning at that time, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with УРАЛ and including various topical images. Topical sheetlets etc. have followed, inscribed as above.  File:Ural Rep snakes.jpg 

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