The new XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi Olympic Winter Sports stamps follow on from last week's release of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi Tourism on the Black Sea Coast of Russia, which consists of four stamps featuring Krasnaya Polyana, the Harbor Station, the Watchtower at the Bolshoi Akhun and the Volkonsky Quoit at the Sochi National Park.

This latest collection of three stamps features one for cross-country skiing, another for ski jumping and the final one for short track, and as the information on the stamps is given in six languages, they are the most multilingual stamps in the history of the Olympic Winter Games.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, the President and chief executive of Sochi 2014, said: "The history of issuing Olympic stamps goes back 115 years, to the first Olympic Games in Athens.

"I hope that the Sochi 2014 philatelic programme will continue the tradition set up at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

"This collection will make a great addition for any collector of Olympic artefacts."


Director general of FSUE Russian Post Alexander Kiselev added: "With postage stamps and envelopes being dispersed worldwide, we believe it is one of the best ways to commemorate the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

"They will become a 'business card' to remember the Games and will contribute to promoting Russia and its sporting traditions."

In total, four souvenir sheets and 45 stamps, maxi-cards and postcards will be released in the run up to Sochi 2014, with sets of stamps also being issued on decorative Games branded envelopes.

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