(30.19)
Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 23.5×16.5cm./9.2×6.4inch.
Metal sign. This sign was placed by the home of soldiers who fought in the second World War. It says:”Here lives a participant of the great patriotic war 1941-1945″. The text with the hammer and sickle says:”Patriotic War”.
This is an estanoshing sign. And very rare. The sign is in good condition and you can tell it was actually on somebody’s wall.
(15.19)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 13.5x8cm./5.3×3.1inch.
Pocelain Soviet desktop with the image of Lenin. For celebrating the 100th. birthyear of Lenin in 1970.
(55.20)
Price: 71.50 euro
Size: 25.5x10cm./10.3×3.9inch.
Beautiful vase from the Soviet Unie showing the Kremlin. The vase is made of porcelain and richly painted. In very good condition.
(15.19)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 15×8.5cm./5.9×3.3inch.
Pocelain Soviet desktop with the image of Lenin. For celebrating the 100th. birthyear of Lenin in 1970.
(55.20)
Price: 71.50 euro
Size: 25.5x10cm./10.3×3.9inch.
Beautiful vase from the Soviet Unie showing Lenin. The vase is made of porcelain and richly painted. In very good condition.
(100.19)
Price: 250.00
Size: 108x88cm./42.5×34.6inch.
Beautiful painting of Lenin, very high quality. In very good condition and made in 1973. The painting is undamaged and preserved very good. The frame is also very good and solid made. On the front there is a signature and on the back there is a little remaining of an label. On the back the name Lenin is written and the name of the artist of the painting and the year 1973.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
(5.19)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 10x9cm./3.9×3.5inch.
Weight: 190gr./6.7oz
Sovjet desktop featuring Lenin and made of stone.
(15.19)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 10x4cm./3.9×1.5inch.
Beautiful wallpiece to commemorate 50 years of CCCP with it’s typical robust Russian art. Made of metal.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about, and with the image of, Peterhof Palace. There is also a silver edition of this pin.
The Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia, commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the Palace of Versailles by Louis XIV of France.
Peterhof Palace
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from Soviet Russia, 1987 saying:”Glory To The Armed Forces CCCP!”.
(57.5.19)
Price: 75,00 euro
Size: 39x14cm./15.3×5.5inch.
Space age red rocket lamp from Sovjet Russia. On top of the lamp is a rocket. When dark it looks like the rocket being launched with a red beam. These lamps were very populair in the Sovjet Union. These lamps were made in the legendary Yuzmash factory were also real rockets were being produced.
This lamp comes in various models. The lamps with a red beam are more rarer then the white beam lamps. The bottom ring comes in various colors like green, blue (rare), and white. The ring with the images is mostly like the lamp pictured as above with images such as: Aerospace, peace, frienship, industry, constitution, 25th. congress, 70th. birthday of Lenin, revolution, industrylization, hero workers and the great patriotic war. There is also a known lamp with only space images. The lamps are known for the 23rd., 24th., 25th., 26th., and 27th. congress. The earlier type of this lamp has got to litghbulbs inside and the more recent has got 1 lightbulb.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Soviet Russia. The label says:”Let’s not play with fire”. The label is made late 50’s, early 60’s.
Price: 2.25 euro
Set of 9 Sovjet matchbox labels about different sports. Made in 1958. The labels say:”World Championship”.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about a Soviet movie called: The Tale About Boy Kibalchish and is a 1965 Soviet children’s war film directed by Yevgeny Sherstobitov and based on a story “A Tale about a War Secret, about the Boy Nipper-Pipper, and His Word of Honour” by Arkady Gaidar. The film tells about a boy nicknamed Kibalchish, who goes to help the Red Army in the fight against the bourgeois.
Kibalchish Boy movie poster
Price: 1.50 euro
Space pin from the Soviet Union. The pin says:”Space Satellites Series”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet postcard, 1988. The postcard says:”Glory To The CCP Armed Forces”. Showing the flags of the ground troops, navy and airforce.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Soviet Russia made for export. The label is made late 50’s, early 60’s.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Sovjet Union. 1959. It says:”For seven year increased production of household goods”.
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
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet coin of 50 kopeck. The coin says:”50 years of Soviet power”. In this series there was also made a 10, 15, 25, 50 kopeck coin and a 1 ruble coin.
50 years of Soviet power coins.
Price: 1.50 euro
This space pin says:”CCCP Space Heroes” and it features the portrait of astronaut Pavel Popovich.
Pavel Popovich (1930-2009) was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, and the eighth person in space. In 1960, he was selected as one of the first group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts for the Soviet space program. He was considered as a strong candidate for the first spaceflight but Yuri Gagarin was ultimately chosen for the Vostok 1 flight.
He commanded the space flight Vostok 4 which, along with Andrian Nikolayev in Vostok 3, was the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time.
Pavel Popovich
Pavel Popovich
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from 1978 to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.
The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 12.50 euro
Lenin desktop from the Soviet Union. In good condition.
Price: 0,25 euro
Sovjet matchbox label. Warning about fire.
Price: 0.50 euro
Matchbox label from Sovjet Russia. The label says:”When Red Light Is On, Wait”. Made in 1961.
Price: 1.50 euro
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
Pin about Kosmos 186 and 188.
The two Soviet spacecraft made the first fully automated space docking in the history of space exploration in 1967. Officially, both made a soft landing in a predetermined region of the Soviet Union. According to Boris Chertok “one of the vehicles was destroyed by the emergency destruction system”.
Because of the lethal outcome of both the Soyuz 1 and the US Apollo 1 missions earlier that year it was decided to proceed with unmanned flights first. But because the Soviet Union had no ground stations outside its own territory, this meant the docking had to be done fully automated.
After the first attempt failed, the second attempt succeeded over the South Atlantic. However, this docking was not entirely successful either, the modules were mechanically docked, but not electrically. Also, the manoeuvre had cost more fuel than anticipated. This mission proved it possible to launch smaller parts and assemble them in space, thus eliminating the need for exceedingly large rockets for larger undertakings like a space station.
The docking of the two spacecrafts.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, 1984. The postcard says:”Happy Holiday!”.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Price: 1,25 euro
Set of 5 matchbox labels with images of statues of famous Russians. The labels are from end 50’s, early 60’s.
Yuriy Dolgorukiy, founder of Moscow.
Nikolai Gogol, drama writer of Ukrainian origin
Minin and Pozharsky, put together a volunteer army to end “Time Of Troubles”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky famous Russian composer.
Alexander Pushkin, famous Russian poet.
Price: 4.00 euro
Set of 9 matchbox labels about Aeroflot. All the labels say:”Aeroflot”.
Aeroflot nowadays is the biggest airline company of Russia. In the Soviet era it was even the biggest airline company in the world with 3000 aircrafts. They still use the hammer and sickle in their symbol.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. Probably 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
This space pin says:”CCCP Space Heroes” and it features the portrait of Vladimir Komarov.
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (1927–1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight.
Komarov was one of the most highly experienced and qualified candidates accepted into the first squad of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He was declared medically unfit for training or spaceflight twice while he was in the program, but his perseverance, superior skills, and engineering knowledge allowed him to continue playing an active role. During his time at the cosmonaut training center, he contributed to space vehicle design, cosmonaut training, and evaluation and public relations.
Vladimir Komarov
The remains of Vladimir Komarov
Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov
Price: 1.50 euro
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, 1984. The postcard says:”Glory October!”.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
(8.5.19)
Price: 10.00 euro
Space spoon from the Sovjet Union. This was made in1967s as a part of the space propaganda in the space race. The Sovjets had many propaganda surrounding there communistic political believes but also their space program. There is a wide range of propaganda space objects, such as clocks, watches, tableware, pins, posters and also this space spoon. An unique item.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Soviet Union, 1960. The text on the label says:”Installation Of A Large House Panel”.
Price: 15.00 euro
Soviet space matchbox labels from 1959.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin wich was ment for shoulder epaulets on Sovjet uniforms.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the 50st. birthday of Yuri Gagarin who died in 1968. The pin says:”First Astronaut Of Planet Earth” and beneath that:”Y.A. Gagarin”.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri Gagarin with his car and in the background the enormous monument “Conquerors Of Space”
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin and his children.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, 1981. The postcard says:”Glory To The Great October!”.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Price: 0.25 euro
Soviet label from 1965 showing a construction site. The label says:”We Will Built About 15 Million Apartments”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Space knife from the Sovjet Union. This was made in 1967 as a part of space propaganda in the space race. The Sovjets had many propaganda surrounding there communistic political believes but also their space program. There is a wide range of propaganda space objects, such as clocks, watches, tableware, pins, posters and also this space knife. An unique item.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin wich was ment for shoulder epaulets on Sovjet uniforms.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with an image of the monument Conquerors Of Space.
The Conquerors Of Space monument.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, 1984, to commemorate the October Revolution.
The postcard says:”Glory To The Great October!”.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Price: 1.00 euro
Set of 4 Soviet labels about traffic safety.
Label 1 says:”Explain To Children Traffic Rules”
Label 2 says:”Don’t Risk Your Life”
label 3 says:”On The Pavement Children Are Dying. Stop It!”
label 4 says:”Tram Bypass In Front”
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from Sovjet army epaulet.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of cartoon figure Murzilka on a Sputnik satellite in space. The pin says:”Murzilka On A Satellite”.
Murzilka
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from Soviet Russia, 1984, about Victory Day.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Sovjet Russia from late 50’s, early 60’s.
The label shows the Barvikha bridge across the pond in the Barvikha estate near Moscow.
The Barvikha bridge.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Soviet Russia from late 50’s, early 60’s. The top of the label says:”On The Day Of Birth” right beneath that the name of the architect: Auguste de Montferrand”
The bottom of the label says:”Saint Isaac’s Cathedral”.
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is a cathedral that currently functions as a museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint. It was originally built as a cathedral but was turned into a museum by the Soviet government in 1931 and has remained a museum ever since. The church on St Isaac’s Square was ordered by Tsar Alexander I in 1818 and took 40 years to build.
In 2017, the Governor of Saint Petersburg offered to transfer the cathedral back to the Russian Orthodox Church, but this was not accomplished due to the protests of St. Petersburg citizens opposing the offer.
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral Interiour
Price: 1.50 euro
Matchbox label set from Soviet Russia about what to do with your hard earned money.
Label 1 says:”Savings Banks, Sell And Buy Freely Bonds Loan”
label 2 says:”With Savings We bought All We Need”
label 3 says:”It Is Profitable To Keep Savings In Bonds. 3% State Domestic Winning Loan”
Label 4 says:”Reliable, Profitable, Convenienyly. Keep Money In A Savingsbank”
Label 5 says:”Buy Government Bonds. 3% Domestic Winning Loan”
Label 6 says:”Keep Money In A Savings Bank”.
(6.5.19)
Price: 10.00 euro
Space fork from the Sovjet Union. This was made in the 60’s as a part from space propaganda in the space race. The Sovjets had many propaganda surrounding there communistic political believes but also their space program. There is a wide range of propaganda space objects, such as clocks, watches, tableware, pins, posters and also this space fork. An unique item.
Price: 1.50 euro
Airforce pin wich was put on shoulder board epaulet for airforce uniform.
Price: 1.50 euro
The pin shows an image of Yuri Gagarin. The text on the pin says:”World’s First Manned Space Flight, 20 years”. The first manned space flight was in 1961 so this pin is from 1981.
Yuri Gagarin
Price: 1.50
Pin about the Interkosmos space flight Soyuz 40 Soviet Union and Romania.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet manned spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania
by carrying Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu and Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov to the station. In all, nine Intercosmos missions were launched between 1978 and 1981.
Launch of Soyuz 40
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from Soviet Russia. Victory Day.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet postcard, 1980. The postcard says:”Glory To The Soviet Armed Forces”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from the Sovjet Union, 1989. The postcard says:”Glory Of The Sovjet Army”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Soviet Russia end 1950’s/early 60’s.
Shown is the Spasskaya Tower, translated as ‘Saviour Tower’, is the main tower on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin which overlooks Red Square. The tower was commissioned to be built by Ivan III, or Ivan the Great, and the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible.
The Spasskaya Tower was built in 1491 by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari. According to a number of historical accounts, the clock on the Spasskaya Tower appeared between 1491 and 1585. It is usually referred to as the Kremlin chimes and designates official Moscow Time.
The tower gate was once the main entrance into the Kremlin. In tsarist times, anyone passing through the gates had to remove their headgear, crossing thenselves and dismount their horses. This practice was revived in 2010, but ceremonially.
The Spasskaya Tower.
Price: 0.25 euro
Shown on the label is the Yekaterinburg University. The label is from late 50’s/early 60’s.
Yekaterinburg is the fourth largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Yekaterinburg University
Price: 0.75 euro
Typical warning/safety labels from the Soviet Union 1961.
Label 1 says:”Driver, during manouvers signal requiered.
Label 2 says:”Crossover only to the designated places”.
Label 3 says:”Driver, don’t miss the transport on the main street!”.
(14.29)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 24x9cm./9.4×3.5inch.
Soviet flag pole top. This sits on top of the pole were the flag is attached. Was used in parades.
A Soviet parade with the flag poles.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin was part of a Soviet uniform of the Medical Division.
Price: 1.50 euro
Little Soviet star pin. Was part of an uniform. It was put on shoulder epaulets of Soviet uniforms.
Price: 1.50 euro
Little tank pin. This pin was put on shoulder epaulets of tank troops.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin is about the Soyuz 33 interkosmos space mission with Bulgaria.
Soyuz 33 was a 1979 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the ninth mission to the orbiting facility, but an engine failure forced the mission to be aborted, and the crew had to return to earth before docking with the station. It was the first ever failure of a Soyuz engine during orbital operations.
The two-man crew, commander Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov, suffered a steep ballistic re entry, but were safely recovered. Rukavishnikov was the first civilian to command a Soviet spacecraft, and Ivanov the first Bulgarian in space.
Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Georgi Ivanov
Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Georgi Ivanov
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Soviet Russia featuring the Tsar Cannon. From late 50’s, early 60’s.
The Tsar Cannon is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. Mostly of symbolic impact, it was never used in a war. However, the cannon bears traces of at least one firing. It is largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
The Tsar Cannon
Price: 0,25 euro
This label shows the main entrance of the Bahx Exhibition. The label is from late 50’s/early 60’s. The top of the label says:”Bahx” and below:”Main Entrance”.
This is a permanent exhibition in Russia about the achievements of national economy established in 1935 and started as an agricultural exhibition.
Now the exhibition holds 2,375,000 square meters (bigger than Monaco) with subjects such as: engineering, space, atomic energy, education, radio electronics and culture and has around 11 million visitors each year. It contains more than 400 buildings.
The main entrance of the permanent Bahx exhibition.
Price: 0,25 euro
Happy new year matchbox label from Soviet Russia From late 50’s/early 60’s. Shown is the Kremlin and a pinetreet with snow.
(8.5.19)
Price: 10.00 euro
Space spoon from the Sovjet Union. This was made in1967s as a part of the space propaganda in the space race. The Sovjets had many propaganda surrounding there communistic political believes but also their space program. There is a wide range of propaganda space objects, such as clocks, watches, tableware, pins, posters and also this space spoon. An unique item.
Price: 1.50 euro
Sovjet pin from the cold war era.
СССР is a Russian abbreviation for the Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The Soviet Union was a federal sovereign state in northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics. The country was a one party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR).
It spanned over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 mi) east to west across 11 time zones, and over 7,200 kilometers (4,500 mi) north to south. Its territory included much of Eastern Europe, as well as part of Northern Europe and all of Northern and Central Asia. It had five climate zones: tundra, taiga, steppes, desert and mountains.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet pin with screw on the back. As a part of a uniform.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet pin with screw on the back. As a part of a uniform.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from Soviet Russia. Victory Day.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
(10.19)
Price: 20.00 euro
Record with speeches from Lenin recorded in 1919-1920.
The speeches were pressed by the Melodia record label. It was the only record label operating in the USSR beyond 1964 (the state had a number of record labels operating prior to 1964), but ceased to be state-owned when the USSR collapsed. Export releases were shipped with full colour sleeves and, at least, English translations while most domestic copies had generic paper sleeves.
Price: 1.50 euro
Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart in 1962 on trajectories that brought the spacecraft within approximately 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of one another. The cosmonauts aboard the two capsules also communicated with each other via radio, the first ship-to-ship communications in space. These missions marked the first time that more than one crewed spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity to learn to manage this scenario.
During the first day in orbit of Vostok 3, the cosmonaut unstrapped himself from his seat and became the first spacefarer to float freely in conditions of microgravity in space.
The mission led Western observers to speculate that the Soviets must already have spacecraft capable of in-orbit maneuvering. Official press releases made no mention that the Vostok spacecraft lacked this ability or that the two Vostoks were able to attain such close approach due to their extremely precise launches.
Vostok 3 and 4 propaganda poster
Vostok 3 and 4 stamp
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about Luna 3.
Luna 3 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme. It was the first ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon and the third Soviet space probe to be sent to the Moon. It returned rather poor pictures. The historic, never before seen views of the far side of the Moon caused excitement and interest when they were published around the world, and a tentative Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon was created after image processing improved the pictures.
The Luna 3 spacecraft
First picture of the far side of the moon
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the state museum wich stands in Kaluga.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened in 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June 1961. The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year.
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
A exhibition room in the museum
A rocket
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 31 was a 1978 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jahn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 29, the resident crew returned to earth in Soyuz 31.
Soyuz 31 was the third Interkosmos flight.
Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jahn
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard, Soviet Union, about the 9th.1945 of May when Nazi Germany surrended to the Soviet Union. It is in Ukranian language. The postcard says:”50 years. Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Program of the concert.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard, Soviet Union, about the 9th.1945 of May when Nazi Germany surrended to the Soviet Union.
Shown on the card is The Order Of The Great Patriotic War Medal with it’s inscription:”Patriotic War”. Beneath that the card says:”Happy Victory Day”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard, Soviet Union, 1972 about the 9th. of May when Nazi Germany surrended to the Soviet Union.
Shown on the card is The Order Of The Great Patriotic War Medal with it’s inscription:”Patriotic War”. Beneath that the card says:”9 May Victory Day”.
(110.20)
(80.19)
Price: 110.00 euro
Size: 5cm./2inch.
Unique Laika pocketwatch. Made from metal. Wind up watch. In very good condition. Tested and runs very well. With an picture of Laika. First dog in space in 1957.
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became the first animal in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space in 1957. Soviet scientists chose to use Moscow straydogs since they assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger.
Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika’s mission. Some scientists believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of outer space, so engineers viewed flights by animals as a necessary precursor to human missions. The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.
Laika
Laika on a matchbox label
Laika on a postcard with Sputnik 1, 2 and 3
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Soviet Unie. From late 50’s, early 60’s.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label showing the building of the Moscow Council of deputies of workers (constructed by M.Kazakovym, 1782-1784). The label is from late 50’s/early 60’s.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Bahx ehibition. This is a permanent exhibition in Russia about the achievements of national economy established in 1935 as an agricultural exhibition.
Now the exhibition holds 2,375,000 square meters (bigger than Monaco) with subjects such as: engineering, space, atomic energy, education, radio electronics and culture and has around 11 million visitors each year. It contains more than 400 buildings.
Entrance
Space pavillion.
Central pavillion.
Atomic energy building.
Bahx exhibition centre.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 30 was a 1978 manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. And the 2nd. Interkosmos mission. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut.
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Soyuz 30 landing capsule at the Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from Soviet Union. Purpose and building unknown. Could be an observatory or planetarium.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.
The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
Bertalan Farkas and Valery Kubasov
Launch of Soyuz 36
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Postcard, Soviet Union, 1976 about the 9th. of May when Nazi Germany surrended to the Soviet Union.
Shown on the card is The Order Of The Great Patriotic War Medal with it’s inscription:”Patriotic War”. Beneath that the card says:”Happy Victory Day”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard drom the Soviet Union Victory Day, 1981. Text on postcard:”Celebration Of Victory”
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Sovjet postcard about Victory Day, 1970. The postcard says:”Victory Day!”.
Shown is the Soviet War Memorial. A war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
(26.5.19)
Price: 45.00 euro
Beautiful Sovjet Lenin watch. In very good condition and runs well. Shown on the plate in red are Lenin, a red star and the hammer and sickle.
Price: 0.25 euro
Label is from Soviet Russia, late 50’s, early 60’s.
Price: 1.25 euro
Set of matchbox labels from the Sovjet Union, 1976.
Label 1 says:”State Insurance” and “Accident Insurance”
Label 2 says:”State Insurance” and “Child Insurance Child Care”
Label 3 says:”State Insurance” and “Voluntary Building Insurance”
Label 4 says:”State Insurance” and “Home Insurance Is Necessary For Every Family”
Label 5 says:”State Insurance” and “Life Insurance Serves Workers”
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the state museum wich stands in Kaluga.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened in 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June 1961. The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year.
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
A exhibition room in the museum
A rocket
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Planetarium in Volvograd (former Stalingrad).
The Planetarium in Volgograd appeared as a present from the DDR to the seventieth birthday of Joseph Stalin. The equipment for the planetarium was made in Germany and then placed in the building specially designed by Stalingrad architects. The sculpture of famous Soviet artist Vera Mukhina decorates the dome of the Volgograd planetarium.
The planetarium in Volvograd
One of it’s showrooms
The observatory
Painting of Stalin in the planetarum
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about Sputnik 1. First satellite to be launched from earth. The pin says:”First Satellite”.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it in 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere.
Its radio signal was easily detectable even by radio amateurs, and its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. The satellite triggered the Space Race. The launch was the beginning of a new era of political, military, technological, and scientific developments.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 propaganda poster
Another Sputnik propaganda poster
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is probably issued in 1980 when Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez travelled into orbit in the Interkosmos space program. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38 he was the first Cuban citizen and the first person of African heritage in space. Together with Yuri Romanenko from the Soviet Union.
He has been honored by the Cuban Government for being the first Cuban, the first Caribbean, and the first Latin American to go into orbit. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Giron. He also is a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Interkosmos logo
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko after their space flight
(90.19)
(70.19)
Price: 90.00 euro
Slava quality watch with Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. Beautiful watch, tested en and runs very well.
Slava watches were classic civil Russian watches. The Slava factory was the second non military watchmaker established in the Soviet Union, in 1924. The watches of this brand have always been intended for civilian consumption, without military or aerospace pretensions.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri Gagarin
Gagarin on a propaganda poster
Yuri Gagarin
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1988. The texts says:”Patriotic War”. And on the bottem of the card:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1970.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1979.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet pin with the image of a cosmonaut. Could be Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin pictures the image of Sergei Korolev.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and launching Laika and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
Once he was arrested on a false official charge as a “member of an anti Soviet counter-revolutionary organization” (which would later be reduced to “saboteur of military technology”), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years.
Following his release he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. He later directed the Soviet space program and was made a Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok projects including the first human Earth orbit mission by Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961. Korolev’s unexpected death in 1966 interrupted implementation of his plans for a Soviet manned Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission.
Before his death he was officially identified only as Chief Designer, to protect him from possible cold war assassination attempts by the United States.
Sergei Korolev
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev during an launch.
Price: 1.50 euro
Space pin picturing the colossal “Conquerors Of Space” monument in Moscow.
Conquerors Of Space
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Pin is about Soyuz flight 39 launched in 1981.
Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew to the orbiting facility. The flight carried Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Russian, and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa, Mongolian, into space. With this mission, Gurragchaa became the first Mongolian, and second Asian cosmonaut. Pham Tuan from Vietnam was the first Asian with Soyuz 37. Dzhanibekov and Gurragchaa performed about thirty experiments during the course of the mission.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa
Jugderdemidiin and Vladimir after their succesful flight
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Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 2005.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The top of the postcard says:”Victory” and the bottom of the card says:”Happy Holiday” The postcard is made in 1970.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Victory”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
(53.17.19)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 69x51cm./27.1x20inch.
Propagandaposter from the Soviet Union with Stalin 1939.
The poster says:”All Union Agricultural Open August 1, 1939″. And:”Our exhibition not only sums up the past, but also serves as a powerful cry for the further advancement of the rural economy to the new glorious victories of socialism”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 30 was a 1978 manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. And the 2nd. Interkosmos mission. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut.
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Soyuz 30 landing capsule at the Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
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Soyuz 28 was a 1978 Soviet manned mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station.
Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia became the first person launched into space who was not a citizen of the United States or the Soviet Union. The other crew member was Aleksei Gubarev. The flight was the first mission in the Intercosmos program that gave Eastern Bloc and other communist states access to space through manned and unmanned launches.
Soyuz 28
Aleksei Gubarev and Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek and Aleksei Gubarev
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This pin is about Interkosmos with the Soyuz spacecraft flight Soyuz 37.
Soyuz 37 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 13th mission to and 11th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 37 crew were the third to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 37 carried Soviet Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan, the first Asian and first Vietnamese cosmonaut, into space.
In the Vietnam War, Pham Tuan (as a member of the North Vietnamese Airfoce) shot down a B-52 bomber.
Pham Tuan and Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan after there return to earth
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Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. The postcard is from 1976.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. Shown on the postcard is the gigantic statue:”The Motherland Calls”.
The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” in Volgograd, Russia, former Stalingrad.
It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 metres (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest statue of a woman in the world. The construction of the monument was started in 1959 and completed in 1967. It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel. It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera.
Motherland Calls in Volvograd
Construction of Motherland Calls
Construction workers working on the statue
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Matchbox label from Latvia featuring the Museum of Arts in capital Riga. The top of the labels says:”Latvia papaer and woodworking industry””. The bottom of the label says:”Art Museum” and beneath that:”Vezuvs Riga”. Vezuvs is a matchbox factory. The label is from end 50’s, early 60’s.
The museum of art in capital Riga
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Matchbox label from late 50’s, early 60’s. Tekst on top of the label is Latvian language and on the bottom Russian. They both say the same:”Rigas Central Department Store” and it is called Galerija Centrs.
Galerija Centrs is a shopping centre in Riga, Latvia. The centre opened in 1938 and presently occupies nearly an entire block in the historic Vecrīga neighborhood. The centre is 29 000 sq. m in size, and contains 110 shops.
Price: 35.00 euro
Poster from 1939 about Alexey Stakhanov.
Alexsei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (1906-1977) was a Russian Soviet miner.
He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of what became known as the Stakhanovite movement. A campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.
On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 tonnes of coal in 5 hours and 45 minutes (14 times his quota).
On 19 September, Stakhanov was reported to have set a new record by mining 227 tonnes of coal in a single shift. His example was held up in newspapers and posters as a model for others to follow, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the United States. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and numerous medals.
The town of Kadievka in eastern Ukraine where he started his work was renamed Stakhanov in his honour in 1978, after his death in 1977.
Stakhanov’s records set an example throughout the country and gave birth to the Stakhanovite movement, where workers who exceeded production targets could become “Stakhanovites”.
Alexey on Time Magazine
Statue of Alexey in Stakhanov City
Alexey Stakhanov mining
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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
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Pin about the Proton launch system.
Proton is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965. Modern versions of the launch system are still in use as of 2019, making it one of the most successful heavy boosters in the history of spaceflight.
All Protons are built at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center factory in Moscow, transported to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, brought to the launch pad horizontally, and raised into vertical position for launch.
Proton
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Pin about the Luna 16 1970 moon mission.
In 1970 Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. It represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and was the third lunar sample return mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.
Analysis of the dark basalt material indicated a close resemblance to soil recovered by the American Apollo 12 mission.
According to the Bochum Observatory in Germany, strong and good quality television pictures were returned by the spacecraft. Luna 16 was a landmark success for the Soviets in their deep space exploration program; the mission accomplished the first fully automatic recovery of soil samples from the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
Three tiny samples (0.2 grams) of the Luna 16 soil were sold at Sotheby’s auction for $442,500 in 1993.
On November 29, 2018 The Luna 16 fragments sold for US$ 855,000 at Sotheby’s.
Luna 16 landing on the moon