Children of Asia (Дети Азии)

       One more postcard from Russian Post Boxes series is "Postcard 2016" (Открытка 2016, ящик Почты России).

       It was released in July of 2016 year for VI International Sposts Games "Children of Asia" in wonderful city Yakutsk! Everyone could write and send a postcard from the Russian Post desk, set on Komsomolskaya square in Yakutsk during the 7th to 11th of July.

 

      Information about Children and Asia: International sports games "Children of Asia" are held every four years since 1996 in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The games were organized in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic movement on the initiative of the first President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Mikhail Efimovich Nikolaev. In 2012, the year the Games were attended by athletes from 27 Countries.

       About 3 thousand delegates from 38 countries, among which the athletes of Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bhutan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, China, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Singapore, Syria, Tajikistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Qatar, Macau, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Japan and Ancient Olympia took part In Games of 2016 year.

 

You may also see special cancellation which was issued for this event!

 

We call this postcard shortly - "Children of Asia" (Дети Азии)!

 

Period: from 7 to 11 of July 2016.