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164 years ago, the first postage stamps appeared in Russia On December 22, 1857, the Postal Department issued a circular “On the introduction of postage stamps for general use.” The trial copies of the stamps were approved by Tsar Alexander II and “deigned to call them postage stamps instead of stamp ones.” The stamp depicted the state emblem of Russia – in a blue oval on the background of a mantle crowned with a crown (the author of the drawing is the senior engraver of the Expedition of State Paper Procurement F. M. Kepler). Energy Day Annually on December 22 in In Russia, employees of the energy industry celebrate their professional holiday – the Day of the Power Engineer. For the first time, a professional holiday, the Day of the Power Engineer, was established in memory of the day of the adoption of the State electrification plan of Russia. The GOELRO

In a telephone conversation, they discussed the boy’s favorite musicians. Mark admitted that he doesn’t know how to play the guitar yet, but he really wants to learn. “And where do you live now? Do you have any music schools or clubs nearby? Are they far from the place where you live?” the president asked. The boy’s mother told him that they live with a friend of a large family. Putin promised to help them in honor of the New Year, talk to the governor and think about what can be done to make both families live in comfortable conditions. “I want to congratulate you on the upcoming New Year and wish you all the best. I think you will succeed,” the Russian leader said to Mark at parting. And earlier, Vladimir Putin realized the dream of a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Stavropol. The girl wanted to visit the Mariinsky Theater.

“We see that the clinical picture of omicron is dominated by such signs of acute respiratory viral infections as sore throat, subfebrile fever, myalgia. General symptoms, intoxication are sometimes very similar to the course of the flu, ” Murashko said at a meeting on the fight against coronavirus. Popova said that in Russia has already identified 41 cases of infection with omicron. All patients are in the hospital. “And already today an important result of our research: we clearly see that mice and rats are infected with the new omicron strain. We have not observed this for the previous types of strains,” the head of Rospotrebnadzor said. “Omicron” began to spread from Africa in November. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), people who have been ill and vaccinated get sick with it, and the effectiveness of existing vaccines against the new strain has not yet been confirmed. Rospotrebnadzor called this

The scattered cluster NGC 1755 in the constellation Goldfish looks a bit like a pinch of salt scattered on a black tablecloth. This beautiful shining object in the Large Magellanic Cloud next to our galaxy was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although NGC 1755 has an impressive size – 120 light-years wide — it belongs to small star clusters containing young stars. But giant globular clusters can contain millions of old stars. Hubble is studying NGC 1755 to better understand how different populations of stars can coexist in the same cluster. It is convenient to observe this object, since it is relatively close. New Year’s sale: discounts up to – 60% Anna Lysenko Even more interesting things about nature

“In the Russian Federation, 41 cases of infection with a new gene variant of the omicron virus have already been identified. All patients are in the hospital,” she said at a meeting of the coordinating council under the government to combat the new infection. “To date, the condition of all patients is stable, also because most of them have immunity,” Popova said.

Celebrate Christmas later WHO Head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus believes that the best strategy in the coming holiday period is to cancel Christmas and New Year’s plans and celebrate later. The reason was the rapid increase in the incidence of a new variant of the coronavirus “Omicron”. According to him, the fastest way to return to normal life is to “make the difficult decisions necessary to protect yourself and others,” which will often be associated with a change of New Year’s plans. “We are all tired of this pandemic, we all want to spend time with friends and family, we all want to return to normal life,” said the head of the WHO. — In some cases, this will mean the cancellation or postponement of events, for example, we had to cancel a reception that we planned to hold with you (journalists) today. But canceling an event is better than canceling