Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Vatican are issued special postage stamps dedicated to the visits of Pope Francis to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Poland, Greece, Sweden, Mexico in 2016. In order to enrich its collection with these stamps, the Central Scientific Library of ANAS sent an appeal to the Ca Foscari University, Italy. On the basis of the appeal, the Library of Linguistics of the University within the framework of the international book exchange sent the Central Scientific Library the mentioned stamps devoted to the visits of the Pope.

On the dedicated visits to Azerbaijan and Georgia, a postage stamp in the background of the spiritual leader of Catholics depicts the Bibi-eybat mosque.

For reference, we note that currently in the collection of brands of the Central Scientific Library there are 1042 stamps. 1020 of these in Azerbaijani, 22 in English, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Russian, Belarusian and Czech. The stamps were included to the CSL Book Fund in the CSL National Digital Memory.

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