Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression through Philately website on Digital Philatelic Literature Competitions
Since 2023, I have been summitting the "Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression through Philately" website to international competitions in the Electronic-Literature category.
I aim to bring awareness to philatelists worldwide about Russian aggression against Ukraine. I support the heroic folk of the Ukraine in their war with a barbaric enemy. The Ukrainian people deserve liberty and the right to live in their country without being dictated to by their larger neighbor.
Current Awards collection of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression through Philately website is:
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Special Award:
- "Maksymczyk Award" 2024 of Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society
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Vermeil medal:
- the 18th New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition 2023 in Christchurch, New Zealand
2024
"Julian G. Maksymczuk Award" of Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society of USA
In April 2024, the author of this website, Mr. Michael Kogan received "Julian G. Maksymczuk Award" of Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society of USA for
the work on Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression through Philately website and for brought awareness to philatelists worldwide about the aggression against Ukraine and the worldwide support Ukraine has received.
Since 1984, every year Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society of USA award the "Maksymczyk Award" to a society member or non-member for making a significant contribution to Ukrainian philately or numismatics.
More details and images of the award are coming soon.2023
The 18th New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition 2023 (NZNPLE-2023)
The "Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression through Philately" website was awarded a Vermeil Medal (76 of 100 points) at the 18th New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition 2023 (NZNPLE-2023), organized by the New Zealand Philatelic Federation.
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Specialised philatelic literature exhibitions have been held in New Zealand every second year since 1989. They have drawn worldwide support and have served to introduce collectors, to literature that will develop their knowledge and interests.
The Philatelic Literature Exhibition 2023 was hosted by the Christchurch Philatelic Society, Inc.
The Christchurch Philatelic Society (CPS), is dedicated to promote philately and philatelic interests not just in Christchurch but also in North and Central Canterbury. CPS aims to bring enjoyment to the hobby as well as encouraging the study and advancement of all aspects of the hobby and its related fields. It has a large library to accommodate everyone from the novice wanting to find information to the serious studier. The Society has a wide range of sub-groups that explore the different aspects of Philately.
Together with the literature exhibit, there was COFEX-23 (Christchurch One Frame Stamp and Postcard Exhibition), the New Zealand Interclub One Frame Competition, and a number of collectables dealers with sales tables.The organizers of NZNPLE-2023 provided detailed feedback, based on "Judging Criteria" developed specifically for websites.
To allow visitors of the show to get an impression of the websites under competition a monitor was installed.
Mr. Paul van Herpt, Chairman of the 18th New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition said:
We had a couple of digital classes and so we had a large screen to display them. For each of the websites I took a number of screenshots and saved them as jpg's. We had a player that let us run them through so throughout the day images from all digital entries were being display. A number of times I was questioned what was on the screen so people did notice. I had borrowed the system from a neighbour who has a furniture shop and he uses it to display his custom made furniture which was ideal for showing off the digital entries.
Physical copies were laid out on the tables while digital entries scrolled away on the large screen. Judging was completed over the weekend of 11/12 November. Entries were of high standard, with 6 Large Gold Awards and 7 Gold Awards. All this printed material will be available for viewing and use to research in our CPS library.
According to the catalog of the show, the members of the Jury have worked hard to arrive at what is considered to be the fairest result for each exhibitor. The organizers of the show took over a month to send boxes of printed materials to the judges, who were scattered around the country, so each entry could be carefully considered. After this, the judges had a weekend meeting (one week before the show begins), to finalize marks and comments, which enabled them to provide written comments to entrants.
The feedback was detailed and it was clear that the jury took their job seriously, spending plenty of time examining many pages of the website. The jury even visited the Facebook group associated with this website!
The next competitions where this website will participate
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- EXPO 2024 CINISELLO, 12-13 October, 2024
- New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition 2025