The size is continental standard 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked, published by the Soviet Artist Publishing House, Moscow, circulation 50,000, rather small by Soviet standards. The artwork is an offset print of an oil-on-canvas painting by P. Blok depicting the scene of an revolutionary agitator's arrest by the gendarmes, the uniformed arm of the Russian security police. A Cossack officer is approaching on horseback to supervise the arrest.

In excellent condition, just microscopic corner bumps. The ink stamp in the lower right-hand corner on the verso sets the new price of 3 kopeks, effective as of 1 January 1961, the date Nikita Khrushchev's 10:1 currency reform went into effect.