1977 USSR New Constitution, Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet Union · 1977 · 4k

The stamp features a portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, against a red background, commemorating the new 1977 Soviet Constitution.

Issued in 1977, this stamp celebrates the adoption of the new Soviet Constitution, often referred to as the 'Brezhnev Constitution', which formally declared the USSR a 'developed socialist society'.