Soviet Table Medals
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Centennial of Birth of Nikolai Krylenko, Table Medal in Bronze by the Leningrad Mint, 1989. Commemorates a Bolshevik leader who was the Soviet Chief Prosecutor and Minister of Justice before being purged in 1938. Features the Soviet law enforcement emblem of shield and sword. In very fine to excellent condition.
Award Table Medal in bronze to a Winner of the 1985 Contest of Student Science
Papers on Social Studies, History of the VLKSM, and History of the International
Youth Movement. Rather than being a purely commemorative medal, this unusual piece
was bestowed exclusively upon the laureates of the contest and only on one
occasion. Just 300 were ever produced. In excellent condition.
Bronze Table Medal in Commemoration of Soviet Long Duration Space Flights, 65 mm,
1981 issue by the Leningrad Mint. The medal celebrated recent Soviet achievements
in space, in particular the record-setting flights of Cosmonauts Lyakhov, Popov
and Ryumin aboard the Salyut-6 Space Station. One of only 1500 made. Near mint
condition.
City of Slavutich Commemorative Table Medal, 1991 issue. Created specifically for
the displaced citizens of Chernobyl following the 1986 catastrophe, the city was
the last instance of large-scale cooperative effort by the nations of the USSR.
Incidentally, the 1991 medal by the Leningrad Mint commemorating its construction
was also one of the last Soviet medals: it was struck just before the
disintegration of the Soviet Union later that year.
XV International Congress of Physiologists of 1935, Participant's Table
Medal in Bronze, with Original Fitted Case of Issue. Features portrait of Ivan
Sechenov, a famous Russian neuroscientist and physiologist. In excellent
condition. One of only pre-WW2 Soviet Table Medals. Very rare, especially with its
original case included.
Centennial of Birth of Ivan Michurin, Table Medal in bronze with Original Case of Issue, 1955. Celebrating life of a legendary Russian botanist whose legacy was used to prop up a fraudulent "progressive" biological theory - and set back genetics research in the USSR by decades. This is one of the earliest and most scarce of Soviet table medals, with only 570 ever made. Near mint condition.
Vitus Bering Memorial Table Medal in bronze by the Moscow Mint. Issued in 1966 to
commemorate the famous Danish naval captain and maritime explorer who mapped
Kamchatka Peninsula and the coast of Alaska while in service of the Russian Crown.
The Bering Strait and a number of other geographic sites were named in his honor.
The medal is one of only 856 specimens made. Interestingly, it apparently
shows the wrong person, a result of mistaken belief about the period portrait used
as a model. Excellent condition.