Icon "May 9" [2]

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The badge "May 9" [2]: [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1.1 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. -
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In the photo: a souvenir badge "May 9". The icon represents a symbolic image of the Order "Victory", fixed on the shoe in the form of a fluttering red ribbon with the inscription "May 9". White metal. Red and turquoise enamels. Stamping. Diameter 15 mm, the size of the shoe 9x24 mm. Pin fastening. On the reverse side - the brand of the manufacturer: Mytishchi Plant of Experimental and Souvenir Products, price 15 kop. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badge the image of the Order "Victory" - the highest military order of the USSR, established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 8.11.1943. After a radical change during the Great Patriotic War in 1943, the leadership of the country decided to establish a higher military order for awarding special distinguished commanders. There were 20 awards and seventeen cavaliers (three were awarded twice, one was awarded posthumously). The sign of the Order "Victory" is made of platinum, it is a convex five-pointed ruby ​​star, fringed with diamonds. In between the ends of the star, the divergent rays are also decorated with diamonds. The middle of the star is a circle covered with blue enamel, bordered with a laurel-oak wreath. In the center of the circle is a golden image of the Kremlin wall with the Lenin Mausoleum and the Spassky Tower in the center. Above the image is an inscription with white enamel letters "USSR". In the lower part of the circle on the red enamel ribbon the inscription with white enamel letters "Victory" .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg). III. Mytishchi Plant of Experimental and Souvenir Products. Victory Day - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. "Victory", the Order - Badges. 5. Souvenir badges - the USSR.
ББК 63.3 (2) 633-7ю9
Source of electronic copy: PB
Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
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