The Tarkhankut Lighthouse is located in Crimea (so to the Black Sea) at the Tarkhankut Cape 5 km southwest of the resort village of Olenivka. The construction of the this lighthouse and its twin tower on the Khersones peninsula started in 1816 to ensure safe sailing in the area. The Inkerman stone, of which the building is made, was mined near Sevastopol and transported by barges. At the end of the year, it looked like a conic 36-metre-high stone tower with a wooden 3.3-metre-high decagonal lantern. The lighthouse became operational in 1817 after its lighting system had been repaired.
Three houses were built next to the tower to accommodate the lighthouse personnel and for storage needs. However, cold and humid winters of the Tarkhanut Peninsula, however, made these houses nearly unsuitable for living. In 1862, the lighting system was upgraded, and the spread of light reached 12.4 miles. In 1873, the construction resumed along with cleaning efforts of the surrounding areas. The building was finished and painted white. In 1876, an additional telegraph spot was built near the tower.
On 1 January 1883, a compressed air fog siren was installed, but the process of preparing it for use in fog was usually taking a long time. To address that problem, a bell was set up near the lighthouse in 1899 to be rung while the siren was being prepared. In 1910, the lighthouse's fuel was changed to kerosene. Besides, the installation of the telegraph and meteorological station made it necessary to have communication with by-passing ships. In 1934, an electric beacon was added. In 1959, an electrical power system was installed. Currently the lighthouse is still functioning, despite being in a run-down condition.
On 18 March 2014 Russia formally annexed Crimea, incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol as the 84th and 85th federal subjects of Russia. Ukraine and the majority of the international community consider the annexation illegal.
About the stamps
The first stamp is one of the two of the series The 150th Birth Anniversary of A. M. Vasnetsov, issued on July 24.2006. Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1856-1933) was a Russian painter and graphic artist whose elder brother was the more famous Viktor Vasnetsov. He specialized in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow.
• The Portrait of the Painter Apollinary Vasnetsov by Nikolai Kuznetsov - 1897 (6 RUB)
• Novodevichy Convent. Towers by Apollinary Vasnetsov - 1926 (6 RUB)
The second stamp, Ships - The 100th Anniversary of Icebreaker Krassin, designed by B. Beltyukov, was issued on March 31, 2017. The ship was built at the Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland in 1976, and was named after an early Bolshevik leader and Soviet diplomat Leonid Krasin and an earlier icebreaker of the same name. The vessel operates in polar regions, being based in Vladivostok.
The third stamp, The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of G.Ya. Bakhchivandji, designed by A. Povarikhin, was issued on February 16, 2009. Grigorij Yakovlevich Bakhchivandji (1909-1943) was a Soviet test pilot and pioneer in rocket flights who in 1942 piloted the first flight on the rocket-propelled experimental aircraft BI-1 of Bolkhovitinov and Isaev.
References
Tarkhankut Lighthouse - Wikipedia
Lighthouses of Russia: Western Crimea - ibiblio
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