Badge "40 years of Victory. 1941-1945"

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Badge "40 years of Victory. 1941-1945": [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1.7 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. -
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In the photo: souvenir badge "40 years of Victory. 1941-1945". Icon in the form of a shield, in the center of the relief image of the sculpture "Motherland is Calling!". In the upper right corner in two lines of the date: "1941-1945". On the left and right edge, the frame is represented by a symbolic image of the laurel branch, along the bottom edge there is an inscription in three lines: "40 years of Victory". White metal. Stamping. The size is 42x26 mm. Pin fastening. On the reverse side - the brand of the manufacturer: Special Design Bureau of X-ray equipment (Leningrad), price 25 kopeks. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badge "40 Years of Victory. 1941-1945" a monument "Motherland Calls!" Is shown. historical and memorial complex "Mamayev Kurgan". Mamayev Kurgan is a hill on the right bank of the Volga River in the Central District of the city of Volgograd, where fierce battles took place during the Battle of Stalingrad from September 1942 to January 1943. In memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War, in 1959-1967. under the guidance of the sculptor EV Vuchetich, a memorial ensemble "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" was erected on the Mamayev Kurgan with the main monument "Motherland Calling!". The height of the statue is 85 m with a sword, and 52 m without a sword. The composition of the ensemble is also composed of: an introductory composition-the high relief "Memory of Generations", the alley of pyramidal poplars, the Square of Death, the walls-ruins, the Heroes' Square, the monumental relief, the Military Glory Hall, the Scourge Square, the Military Memorial Cemetery, the memorial arboretum at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan. The length of the entire complex from the foot to the top of the hill is 1.5 km, the total area is 26 hectares. This is the largest monument in the world dedicated to the events of World War II .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg). III. Special Design Bureau of X-ray equipment (Leningrad) .1. Monument ensemble to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Hill (Volgograd, city) - Badges. 2. "The Battle of Stalingrad," the State Panorama Museum (Volgograd, the city) - Badges. 3. The people (the collection). 4. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 5. Territory (collection). 6. Territory of Russia: Volgograd Region (collection). 7. Volgograd region: pages of history (collection). 8. Souvenir badges - the USSR.
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Source of electronic copy: PB
Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
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