A series of icons "Hero Cities"

Author	Мелентьев Алексей Михайлович
Description	A series of icons "Cities-heroes": [photos] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (3 files: 3.6 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. - Access mode: the Internet portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The title is based on the analysis of objects. The copying by users is not is allowed. Photos of the three icons included in the series "Hero Cities". Each icon is rectangular in shape, in the center - an image of a monument to the hero city that fell in the Great Patriotic War. In the upper part - a symbolic image of the medal "Golden Star", at the bottom of the icon the name of the hero city. Yellow metal. Blue, green, black and red enamel. The size is 27x17 mm. Pin fastening. On the reverse side - stamp of the manufacturer: Leningrad Mint, price 25 kopeks. In the series are icons with the image of the hero cities: Kerch, Novorossiysk, Kiev. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badges of the series "Cities-heroes" are represented symbolic images of monuments to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, established in cities-heroes of the Soviet Union. The series includes 11 badges - by the number of cities-heroes of the USSR. In the collection of the Presidential Library there are three icons from the series, which depict: an obelisk of Glory on Mount Mithridates in the hero-city of Kerch; a monument to the "Sailors of the Revolution" memorial complex "Heroes of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, 1941 - 1945" in the hero-city of Novorossiysk; Monument "Motherland" in the city-hero Kiev . I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg). III. The Mint (Leningrad) .1. "Heroes of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945", a memorial complex (Novorossiysk, the city, Krasnodar Territory) - Badges. 2. Ukrainian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War - 1941 - 1945 - Badges. 3. Kiselev, Alexei Dmitrievich (1905-1979). Obelisk of Glory on Mount Mithridates - Badges. 4. The people (the collection). 5. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 6. Territory (collection). 7. Hero cities - USSR - Badges. 8. Souvenir badges - the USSR. ББК 63.3 (2) 633-7ю9 ББК 85.136.155ю9 Source of electronic copy: PB Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher	Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
Catalogue object	СССР в 1965 Скульптура
Collections	Memory of the Great Victory → The perpetuation of the memory of the Great Patriotic War → The war in collectibles → Insignia → Russia → Novorossiysk Memory of the Great Victory → The perpetuation of the memory of the Great Patriotic War → The war in collectibles → Insignia → Russia → Kerch Memory of the Great Victory → The perpetuation of the memory of the Great Patriotic War → The war in collectibles → Insignia → Foreign countries → UKRAINE → Kiev