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With the abolition of the Russian monarchy in 1917, the Imperial Porcelain Factory was renamed "State Porcelain Factory" (GFZ - Gossudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod) by the Bolshevik regime. [1] During the early years of the Soviet Union, the GFZ produced so-called propaganda wares, ranging from plates to figurines of the Soviet elite. [2]
Four pre-reform dengas of the Novgorod Republic (novgorodkas) 1420–1478. A copper denga minted during the reign of Tsar Peter I in 1704.. A denga (Russian: деньга, earlier денга) was a Russian monetary unit with a value latterly equal to 1 ⁄ 2 kopeck (100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble).
Country code on the bottom right. The current format uses a letter followed by 3 digits and two more letters. To improve legibility of the numbers for Russian cars abroad, only a small subset of Cyrillic characters that look like Latin characters are used (12 letters: А, В, Е, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, У, Х), additionally D was issued on some very early plates. [1]
Bears (медведь, med'ved)- According to Russia: A Cultural Resource Guide, its Russian name, med'ved, means "one who knows where the honey is". It was an ancestor of the Russian people and is friendly. Oftentimes people will be changed into bears as a punishment or will often appear as a wise old man.
Russian legends (1 C, 8 P) M. Russian mythology (1 C, 25 P) P. Russian folklore characters (3 C, 45 P) R. Russian musical instruments (12 C, 37 P) U. UFO sightings in ...
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Dionizjusz Czubala, Współczesne Legendy Miejskie [Contemporary urban legends], Ph.D. thesis, Uniwersytet Sląski, Katowice, 1993, ISBN 83-226-0504-8 Piotr Gajdziński, Imperium plotki [The empire of rumours], Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa, 2000, pp. 197–200