I know this stamp is part of a 1988 miniature sheet from the USSR but I cannot find it listed with this overprint. the stamp was issued in other ex-USSR countries with similar overprints but I can't find any with this wording. thank you anybody for their help.
thanks for your input however Gibbons still does not show this overprint, possibly it might show up in the specialised catalogue which I don't have. Tajikistan has the same stamp, with different wording, released in 1993
Yes, these have a full listing in the SG Part 10 catalogue under Russia.
There were a few similar overprints and surcharges from the newly independent republics (such as Tajikistan as you mentioned) but these were dwarfed in number by a flood of bogus overprints purporting to come from dozens of regions and cities across the Russian Federation and the former USSR.
Here are a few examples of stamps that I assume are bogus.
I'll start with some use the same basic 1k design but I have lots printed on other USSR stamps and some have weird overprints with fruit, animals, windmills etc.
From left to right:
1-2. The city of Petrozavodsk (Petroskoi in Finnish), capital of Karelia
3. Crimea (one of many different overprint designs)
4. Tuva (as in the former stamp-issuing state)
5-6. The city of Barnaul, capital of the Altai district in Southern Siberia.
7. I believe this is one for Nagorno-Karabakh, but using a form of the Armenian name Artsakh
8-9. The city and of district of Krasnoyarsk, also in Southern Siberia
10-11. A dinosaur on a pair of 1992 Russia stamps from the Republic of Mari (now Mari El), near Kazan.
12-13. The city and region of Chelyabinsk near the Kazakh border.
14-21. I'll end with a bright green overprint with the bear arms of the former Carpatho-Ukraine, independent for just one day back in 1939.
thanks to everybody that contributed to this thread but it nows begs the question, Why? what was going on with the stamp issuers in the USSR at this time to cause individual cities/regions to release these stamps, was is connected to the decline of communism?