Career
The history of the Saint St. Petersburg Post. Manfred Dobin had access to a number of postal and related archives in Russia. He was one of the first to write a standard work on the postmarks of the Russian Empire.
Dobin, Manfred, Postmarks of Russian Empire (pre-adhesive period), Standard-Collection, Saint St. Petersburg (1993) Dobin, Master of Arts, The Postal Rarities of Russia and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (2002) Dobin, Master of Arts & L.G. Ratner, From the History of the Saint-St. Petersburg Post, 1703-1914, Standard-Collection, Saint St. Petersburg (2004).
Articles in philatelic journals The postal history of the Russian Empire is the main focus of the work of Dobin. Relating to this subject he has authored articles in Filateliya USSR (Philately of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics), a monthly bulletin published in Moscow since 1966.
"Filateliya USSR" was an organ of the Ministry of Communications of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and the All-Union Society of Philatelists (Russian: Всесоюзное общество филателистов). Some of his articles were translated and published in Rossica.