The size is continental standard 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover. Published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation 15,000, extremely small by Soviet standards. The name of the artist, V, Pimenov, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of his 1958 painting depicting Lenin and two of his closest advisers poring over a map of Petrograd, planning the armed uprising which took place on 25 October (7 November by Gregorian calendar) 1917 and was labeled by the Bolsheviks as the Great October Revolution.

In excellent, near-mint condition.