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20th anniv. of Soviet people's Victory over fascist Germany in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) "The Soldier Liberator" monument by Yevgeny Vuchetich in Treptower Park: 60,000,000 (11,250 proof) 1967 10 copecks 50 years of Soviet power Monument "To the Conquerors of Space", rising sun in the background 50,000,000 (211,250 of them proof) 1967
Luxury Is Calling. One man’s trash is very often another man’s treasure on eBay, which has been selling head-scratching items since 1995. But eBay is a place for a lot more than just cheap ...
Soviet jewelry falls under the category of art, antiques and collectibles which are all grouped and defined as Movable Cultural Property. [1] [2] Although all Soviet jewelry can be called art, most of jewelry from USSR is considered to be collectibles and some, depending on the jurisdiction under which they are located, are (or soon to become) legitimate antiques.
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
The following list includes monuments and memorials built in or by the Soviet Union. 26 Commissars Memorial; Alyosha Monument, Murmansk; Barmaley Fountain; Bronze Soldier of Tallinn; Chekhov Monument in Taganrog; Cosmonauts Alley; Defence Forces Cemetery of Tallinn; Garibaldi Monument in Taganrog; Green Belt of Glory; Katyn war cemetery; Khimki ...
The sale was secret, but word was quietly spread to selected western art dealers and collectors that the paintings were on the market. The first foreign buyer to purchase Hermitage paintings was Calouste Gulbenkian , the founder of the Iraq Petroleum Company , who began buying paintings in early 1930, trading them for oil with the Russians.
One of the reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was that it was so afraid of the free flow of information that it chained up its photocopy machines at night, lest some dissident sneak into the ...
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was founded after the October Revolution in the Russian Republic and very soon had to create an award system. The award systems of parallel Soviet states soon followed and they also created and issued awards of their own, mainly in a similar style to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.