The size is 6 ¼" x 4 ½", postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The preprinted government stamp and the special-edition commemorative stamp are canceled with the First Day cancel of the Vilnius Post Office dated 1 April 1979. The artwork on the left shows a part of the university building, and is captioned in Russian and Lithuanian "Vilnius University named after V. Kapsukas."

In excellent condition. The top flap on the verso is partially glued closed after decades in storage; otherwise, both sides are perfectly clean, the pa

The size is 6 ¼" x 4 ½", postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The preprinted government stamp and the special-edition commemorative stamp are canceled with the First Day cancel of the Vilnius Post Office dated 1 April 1979. The artwork on the left shows a part of the university building, and is captioned in Russian and Lithuanian "Vilnius University named after V. Kapsukas."

In excellent condition. The top flap on the verso is partially glued closed after decades in storage; otherwise, both sides are perfectly clean, the paper is attractively and very mildly age-toned.

Vincas Mickevicius-Kapsukas (Kapsukas being his pen name) was a Lithuanian communist political activist, publicist and revolutionary, the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR in 1918-1919. Not only the 400-year-old university but the entire city of Marijampole, the second largest city in Lithuania, where he studied at a gymnasium, was named after his pen name.
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