Now you can send a letter with New Year greetings in a special basketball themed envelope.
On December 23, in the "Post Salon" of the Main Post Office in Minsk, an artistic stamped envelope and a special commemorative stamp, prepared in cooperation between the Belarusian Post and the BSE, were presented.
Minister of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus Konstantin Konstantinovich Shulgan, the President of the public association "Belarusian Basketball Federation" Maksim Vladimirovich Ryzhenkov and Olympic basketball champion Tatyana Mikhailovna Beloshapko took part in the ceremony of the solemn release of postal products:
Maxim Ryzhenkov, the President of the BBF noted:
- This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the development of basketball in Belarus, and it is very pleasant that excellent results have been shown during that time. There were also Olympic champions in our history who won medals as part of the USSR National team; there were medals of the Europe Cuos among women's teams; there were very successful performances of boys’ teams on the world arena; there were medals of the European Games in the new developing discipline of 3x3 basketball. These successes give us confidence that our sport will always be popular among children, adults and amateurs. Actions such as the release of an envelope dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the game are another step towards popularizing basketball. Postal products will be sent all over the country and beyond, and this motivates someone to learn more about history, and maybe even take up sports themselves.
You can buy this envelope at the offices of Belpochta, and an envelope with a special stamp at the “Post Office” at the main Glavpochtamt (Minsk, Nezavisimosti ave., 10).
Tatyana Beloshapko, 1980 Olympic basketball champion:
- This anniversary envelope will add to my small philatelic collection. At the Games in Moscow, there was a post office in the village of athletes where you could send a special Olympic letter. I kept this unusual sports envelope, then another one from the 1983 World Cup was added to it, and in 2018 we issued stamps dedicated to the World Cup among girls’ teams in Belarus. Now this collection will be supplemented with a commemorative envelope with a stamp “100 years of basketball development in the territory of Belarus”.
The Belarusian Basketball Federation expresses its sincere gratitude to the leadership and employees of the Ministry of Communications and Information, Belpochta and the Marka for the implementation of the joint project.
FOR REFERENCE:
Since gaining independence in the Republic of Belarus, more than 1,440 art stamps and even more envelopes have been introduced into the postal circulation, which are intended to pay for the forwarding of written correspondence and are collectible items.
Belarusian postal products reflect popular sports in Belarus: tennis, hockey, biathlon, basketball, sailing and equestrian sports, significant events in the sports life of our country are noted.
So, in 2018, the postage stamp “FIBA U17 Women’s Basketball World Cup 2018” was put into circulation.
100 years of Belarusian basketball
In 2021, the centennial anniversary of the development of the sport on the territory of the Republic of Belarus is celebrated.
From 10 to 11 March, 1921, a meeting of the Vitebsk provincial military commissariat department of Vseobuch took place, which became a key in the development of the sport in the region, which was the ancestor of basketball on the territory of modern Belarus.
The first section recorded in the documents appeared in the sports center of the Senno district in 1922.
From 1 to 16 September, 1923, the First USSR Physical Education Festival was held in Moscow, the program of which included basketball competitions - the tournament became the first championship of the USSR. The event was attended by a team of pre-conscripts from the Western Military District from Vitebsk.
The first official basketball competitions in Belarus took place in Vitebsk on November 4-7, 1923.
The first republican basketball competitions were held within the framework of the 1st All-Belarusian holiday of physical culture, which was held in Minsk on August 17-22, 1924.
Olympic champions in the teams of the USSR and the CIS are Ivan Edeshko (Munich-1972), Tatyana Beloshapko (Moscow-1980), Irina Sumnikova and Elena Shvaibovich (both - Barcelona-1992), bronze medalists of the Games - Irina Sumnikova and Galina Savitskaya (both - Seoul-1988).
In the history of sovereign Belarus, the women's National team became the bronze medalist of the Europe Cup 2007, twice took part in the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016), was among the 8 strongest at the World and Europe Cups.
In 1994, the youth men's team took gold medals at the U22 Europe Cup.
At the second European Games Minsk 2019, the men's and women's 3x3 basketball teams became bronze medalists. In 2015, the girls’ 3x3 team climbed to the second step of the podium of the U18 Europe Cup, which was held in Minsk. In 2021, in 3x3 basketball, the women's and men's teams became bronze medalists of the U17 Europe Cup and the U18 World Cup, respectively, and two of our squads brought silver medals to Belarus at the 2021 CIS Games.
In 1986, Minsk hosted the women’s World Cup, and in 2018 - the U17 women’s World Cup.
More than 6,000 athletes go in for sports in our country, men's and women's teams take part in major international tournaments, representatives of Belarus are members of the governing bodies and commissions of FIBA Europe.
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