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__NOTOC__ Leniniana in philately is a topic for collecting postage stamps that tell about the life and story of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) or people, places, etc. connected with him. The topic was common in the Soviet Union.
On the stamps of the USSR, Lenin was most frequently portrayed among the Bolsheviks. After 1923, his pictures were present on about 11% of all Soviet stamps. Lenin portrait first appeared on a stamp series that was the printed immediately after his death in 1924. Images of the first Soviet leader soon became ubiquitous.
Because of various Lenin representations on postage stamps, it is hardly possible to categorise them all. Among different ways and roles in which Lenin was shown, there were:
- his simple portraits,
- Lenin as a child and youth,
- Lenin as the organiser of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
- Lenin as the founder of the first socialist state,
- Lenin as the organiser of the Party press,
- Lenin as an inspirer of Soviet organisations and activities, etc.
There was even a stamp depicting Vladimir Lenin near a New Year's tree celebrating the holiday with children.
Soviet Union 1970 CPA 3887 label 14 (Lenin (Sculpture by Y.Kolesnikov) with 16 labels 'Lenin course').jpg| Venera 5 space station Soviet Union 1970 CPA 3887 label 12 (Lenin (Sculpture by Y.Kolesnikov) with 16 labels 'Lenin course').jpg| Atomic icebreaker Lenin