Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 3.5×1.5cm./1.3×0.5inch.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. The building is unknown but probably the Winter Palace.Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Pins Soviet Russia City’s
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 3.5×2.5cm./1.3×0.9inch.
3D pin with 2 sides of images of Leningrad (now known as St. Petersburg). On one reflction the St. Isaac’s cathedral is visible with and the statue “The Bronze Horseman” wich is a statue of Peter The Great. The ship is on top of the Admirality building. On the other reflection there is the Winter Palace.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 4.5x3cm./1.7×1.1inch.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. On top of the pin there are medals. Medals could not only be givin to persons but also to city’s. Due to the struggle and suffering of Leningrad in WWII. On the backgroud there is a map of Leningrad and the image of a famous statue of Lenin.
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Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Shchuchinsk” wich is a town in Kazakhstan.
Shchuchinsk is a city in northern-central Kazakhstan, located 75 kilometres south-east of Kokshetau on Lake Shchuchye and is the centre of a large agricultural area. Shchuchinsk was founded as a Cossack settlement called Shchuchye in 1850.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text reads:”Ulyanovsk”. The city of Ulyanovsk is the birthplace of Lenin in 1870. Ulyanovsk is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers (438 mi) east of Moscow. Nowadays it has little more than 600.00 inhabitants.
The city, founded as Simbirsk but was named Ulyanovsk after Lenin’s death in 1924. Ulyanovsk has been designated a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015. The building on the pin is the Lenin Memorial Building. On the left side on the pin is the Lenin Order. One of the highest civilian order.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 2×1.5cm./0.7×0.5inch.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad” also known as St. Petersburg. The statue of Lenin on the pin is the statue at Finland Station in Saint Petersburg is one of the most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin in Russia. Erected in 1926, it was one of the first large-scale statues of Lenin, being completed within three years of his death. It depicts the man making a speech from atop an armoured car, soon after his 1917 arrival at the station from exile abroad. It was designed in an early constructivist style by sculptor Sergei A. Evseev and architects Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Helfreich. The style and pose of the statue were imitated by later works. The statue is one of few in Saint Petersburg that survived after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was damaged in a 2009 bomb attack but has since been repaired.
Price: 2.00 euro
Size: 3x3cm./1.1×1.1inch.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text reads:”Ulyanovsk”. The city of Ulyanovsk is the birthplace of Lenin in 1870. Ulyanovsk is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers (438 mi) east of Moscow. Nowadays it has little more than 600.00 inhabitants.
The city, founded as Simbirsk but was named Ulyanovsk after Lenin’s death in 1924. Ulyanovsk has been designated a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015. The building on the pin is the Lenin Memorial Building. On the left side on the pin is the Lenin Order. One of the highest civilian order.
Price: 1.50 euro
Button with the text:”Leningrad”. The image on teh button is the Palace Bridge.
Although it is only a 20th century creation, Palace Bridge is one of the famous sights of St. Petersburg, and is quite literally unmissable for most visitors to the city, who will find themselves continually using the bridge to move between Palace Square, home to the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum, and the numerous historic attractions on Vasilevskiy Ostrov.
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Button from the Soviet Union. The text on the button reads:”Leningrad”. The image of the button shows one of the 4 Horse Tamers statue.
On each corner of the Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg (Leningrad) there is a different Horse Tamer statue.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4cm./1.5inch.
Button with Leningrad from th cold war era. On the button there is imaged, the Bronze Horseman.
The Bronze Horseman is an statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg. The statue’s pedestal is the enormous Thunder Stone, the largest stone ever moved by humans. The stone originally weighed about 1500 tonnes, but was carved down during transportation to its current size.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad” Now known as St. Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”.
Price: 1.50 euro
The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. The 2 anchors on the pin can also been found on the flag and coat of arms of Leningrad. The year 1703 is the year Peter The Great founded the city.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Union pin. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. Now known as St. Petersburg. The gate is probably the gate t the Presidental Library.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the city of Sibay and is made to commemorate 30 years of city status. Sibay is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the border between Europe and Asia, on the east slope of the Southern Urals. Sibay was granted urban-type settlement status in 1938. In 1955, it was granted town status. Sibay is well-known for possessing the deepest open-cast mine in Russia: its colossal Copper-Zinc quarry is almost 2-kilometer (1.2 mi) wide and 500-meter (1,600 ft) deep.
Sibay’s Russia’s biggest copper and zinc mine
Flag of Sibay
Location of Sibay
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the city of Sibay. Sibay is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the border between Europe and Asia, on the east slope of the Southern Urals. Sibay was granted urban-type settlement status in 1938. In 1955, it was granted town status. Sibay is well-known for possessing the deepest open-cast mine in Russia: its colossal Copper-Zinc quarry is almost 2-kilometer (1.2 mi) wide and 500-meter (1,600 ft) deep.
Sibay’s Russia’s biggest copper and zinc mine
Flag of Sibay
Location of Sibay
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the city of Belebey.
Belebey is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the bank of the Usen River. Population: 60,188. Belebey was established in 1715 and granted town status in 1781.
Coat of Arms Belebey
Location of Belebay in Russia
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The pin says:”Leningrad”.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Hero City Obelisk
Location of St.Petersburg in Russia
Coat of Arms St. Petersburg
Price: 1.50 euro
The city of Kaluga is known since 1371. These pins are made for celebrating 600 years of Kaluga so they are from 1971.
Kaluga is connected to Moscow by a railway line and by the ancient roadway, the Kaluga Road. This road offered Napoleon his favored escape route from the Moscow trap in the fall of 1812. But General Kutuzov repelled Napoleon’s advances in this direction and forced the retreating French army onto the old Smolensk road, previously devastated by the French during their invasion of Russia.
Also Kaluga is known for one of it’s most famous residents; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He was a pioneer in space research and invented the 3 stage rocket. So in Kaluga there is also a space museum in his honour.
Location of Kaluga
City of Kaluga
Flag of Kaluga
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin says:”Moscow” with an image of the Kremlin.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the town of Revda. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 61,875 (in 2010). Oblast means district or provence. The Europe Asia border runs through Revda and is often called “first town of Europe”.
The place was founded in 1731 when an iron processing factory was founded by Akinfi Demidov. However, the official date is 4 September 1734; the day on which the first cast iron was melted.
Revda is known for the many uprisings that have taken place among the local charcoal burners, the largest of which was in 1841. Revda received the status of city on 3 May 1935.
The town of Revda
Location of Revda in Russia.
Coat of Arms of Revda.
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The pin says:”Vladivostok”
Vladivostok is a city in the far east of Russia close to the borders of China and North Korea. The population as of 2018 was 600.000 people.
The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and is the largest Russian port on the Pacific coast. As the main naval base of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok was officially closed to foreigners during the Soviet years. The city hosted the summit at which Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford conducted the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in 1974.
Location of Vladivostok in Russia.
A part of Vladivostok and it’s habour.
Flag Of Vladivostok.
Russky Bridge. The longest cable bridge in the world.
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Suzdal is one of the oldest Russian towns. In the 12th century it became the capital of the principality, while Moscow was merely one of its subordinate settlements.
Currently (as of 2019) Suzdal has a population of approximately 10,000, but it is a major tourist attraction. Several of its monuments are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Today, the town operates as an important tourist center, featuring many fine examples of old Russian architecture most of them churches and monasteries.
More than 60 movies were made in Suzdal.
Suzdal.
Coat of Arms of Suzdal
Location of Suzdal in Russia.
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Pin says:”Salawat Yulayev” and the city of Ufa.
The city was founded in 1574. It is the capital city of the Republic Of Bashkortostan in Russia. It has got more than 1 million inhabitants maken it the 11th. city of Russia. The image on the pin is a monument in the city and it is Salawat Yulayev. He is a national hero who participated in the Pugachev’s rebellion and he is also known for his poems.
Statue of Salawat Yulayev in Ufa.
Coat of Arms city of Ufa.
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This pin is about the city of Volgograd. Formerly known as Stalingrad.
The Battle of Stalingrad in World War II was one of the largest and bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. Known locally as the “Hero City”, it is home to The Motherland Calls, an 85 meter statue dedicated to the heroes of the battle.
The pin shows a hand with a burning torch. This monument is located in the Hall Of Militairy Glory and is a eternal burning flame.
Price: 1.50 euro.
Magnitogorsk was founded in 1929 as a industrial settlement. It became a city in 1931. It is located at mountain Magnitnaja wich is very rich on iron ore. So they built very big steelwork factory’s. The quick devolopment of the city was due to Stalins “five year plan” in the early 30’s so the Soviet Union could match up with western steel production.
In 1931 Ducth communist Joris Ivens made a propaganda movie about the building of the city but not filming the forced labour. Instead he filmed the thousants of Komsomol volounteers and party members who also worked in Magnitogorsk. The movie was called “Song Of Heroes”.
Nowadays (2019) the biggest steel factory in magnitogorsk is the 30th. lagerst steel company in the world.
The nickname of Magnitogorsk and the biggest steel factory is “Magnitka”, meaning magnet.
City of Magnitogorsk.
City location in Russia.
Dutch communist Joris Ivens on the left and Ernest Hemingway in the middle.
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This pin is about the city Ufa. The city was founded in 1574. It is the capital city of the Republic Of Bashkortostan in Russia. It has got more than 1 million inhabitants maken it the 11th. city of Russia. The image on the pin is a monument in the city and it is Salawat Yulayev. He is a national hero who participated in the Pugachev’s rebellion and he is also known for his poems.
Statue of Salawat Yulayev in Ufa.
Coat of Arms city of Ufa.
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This pin is about Kronstadt. Kronstadt is a port city located on Kotlin Island very close to St. Petersburg (formaly Leningrad). Kronstadt was build in order to defence St. Petersburg. Both St. Petersburg and Kronstadt were founded by Peter The Great.
Coat Of Arms Kronstadt.
(12.19)
Price: 14,50 euro.
Size: 10.5×5.5cm./4.1×2.1inch.
This is a rare pin set. Not many of them survived or are compleet. This one is.
The city of Kaluga is known since 1371. These pins are made for celebrating 600 years of Kaluga so they are from 1971.
Kaluga is connected to Moscow by a railway line and by the ancient roadway, the Kaluga Road. This road offered Napoleon his favored escape route from the Moscow trap in the fall of 1812. But General Kutuzov repelled Napoleon’s advances in this direction and forced the retreating French army onto the old Smolensk road, previously devastated by the French during their invasion of Russia.
Also Kaluga is known for one of it’s most famous residents; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He was a pioneer in space research and invented the 3 stage rocket. So in Kaluga there is also a space museum in his honour.
Location of Kaluga
City of Kaluga
Flag of Kaluga
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with an image of the city of Krasnodar.
Krasnodar is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai. The city stands on the Kuban River in Southern Russia, with a population of 932,629 residents, up to 1 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Krasnodar is the sixteenth-largest city in Russia, and the second-largest city in Southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District.
The city originated in 1793 as a fortress built by the Cossacks, and became a trading center for southern Russia. The city sustained heavy damage in World War II but was rebuilt and renovated after the war. Krasnodar is a major economic hub in southern Russia. In 2012, Forbes named Krasnodar the best city for business in Russia. Krasnodar is home to numerous sights, including Krasnodar Stadium.
