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Year: 1973
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1973.
Postcards Soviet Russia Monuments
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1978. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument To The Soviet Warrior”.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument To The Heroes (1812)”, when Napolean invaded Russia but failed to win the war.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument M.N. Kutuzov”. Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745-1813) was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs: Empress Catherine II, and Emperors Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was shot in the head twice while fighting the Turks (1774 and 1788) and survived the serious injuries seemingly against all odds.
He defeated Napoleon as commander-in-chief using attrition warfare in the Patriotic war of 1812. Alexander I wrote that Europe will remember him as one of the famous commanders and that Russia will never forget his worthiness.
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”Smolensk. Monument to the liberators of the Smolensk region”.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. On the postcard there is Lenin’s Hut. In November 1917 a revolution in Russia (November Revolution) ended the Tjarist reign over Russia. The new government considerd Lenin as a terrorist and he went into hiding. He lived secretly in a forest north of St. Petersburg disguised as a hayfarmer. He shaved his baird and wore a wig. In this period he wrote serveral articles for newspapers and recieved fresh fruit daily.
Also he worked on theoretical political works and prepared for the October Revolution. He lived in a hut made of branches. After Lenin’s death the hay hut was recreated on the site and also statues were placed and a museum. In the Soviet era the site had to be visited by students.
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. 1974. The text on teh back of the card reads:”Belgrade memorial cemetery of those who died for the liberation of the city”.
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Year: 1974
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. 1974. The text on the back of the card reads:”Monument to Peter I’. The statue is standing in St. Petersburg, at the time when the postcard was made known as Leningrad.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the back of the card reads:”At the monument to the soldiers of the Buryats who died the death of heroes during the Great Patriotic War” a newly married couple puts flowers at the monument. Buryats is a one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the other being the Yakuts.
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Year: 1973
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1973. The text on the card reads:”Orenburg Obelisk to the soldiers who fell on the fronts during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945″. On teh postcard there are Komsomol children laying flowers.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the picture of a obelisk commemoration the foundation of Pavlovsk wich is a town near St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union and shows the Fourteen Turkestan Commissars in the city of Tashkent.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad).
Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, with an image of the Matsesta sculpture. The sculpture depicts a girl hugging a mountain and is remarkable for how natural it looks, almost as if the female’s face was cut out of stone by nature itself. The fountain in front of the sculpture symbolizes Matsesta’s healing waters. According to one legend, local people previously had to sacrifice the most beautiful girl to an evil mountain spirit who controlled the healing water spring. The people eventually rebelled against the villain so he blocked off the water source with a large rock. One day, a beautiful girl called Matsesta went to the mountain to collect water for her sick, aging parents. She managed to kill the spirit, crack open the rock and give people back the water, but perished in turn. Grateful locals named the water in her honor.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad). Entrance to the hall of the Soldier’s Glory.
Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad).
Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad) and the sculpture “Mothers Grieve”.
Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad) and the grave of Chuikov. Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900-1982) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
Mamayev Hill is a big memorial complex to commemorate the battle of Stalingrad.The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
Mamayev hill is now a memorial complex.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad) with the sculpture “Memory Of The Generations”. The area is now a big memorial complex. The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
Mamayev hill is now a memorial complex.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with Mamayev Hill in Volvograd (formerly Stalingrad). The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
Mamayev hill is now a memorial complex.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the Courage Memorial in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and built in 1976. Among the large number of Tashkent monuments Courage Memorial deserves special attention. It is dedicated to the events that took place almost 50 years ago and left a deep trace in Tashkent’s history. On the granite podium of the monuments stands a black labradorite cube. One of its sides contains the engraved inscription: April 26, 1966; on another side there is the engraved image of a clock-face whose hands show the time: 24 minutes past 5.
On this day, at this early morning hour the city was struck by a severe earthquake measuring 8.3 degrees on the Richter scale. The crack in the cube symbolizes a break in the ground and runs to the foot of a bronze sculpture that depicts a woman clasping a child to herself and a man who tries to shield them with his body from the natural forces… Relief compositions depicting scenes of the reconstruction of Tashkent serve as the background for the monument.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the People’s Friendship Palace in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Peoples’ Friendship Palace is now Uzbekistan’s largest cinema/concert hall and has seatings for 6,000 people. The architect Yeregeny Rozanov decorated the massive structure if the Peoples’ Friendship Palace in Tashkent with traditional local motifs.
The name Peoples’ Friendship Palace comes from a dedication to the friendship of the people who came to Tashkent to help rebuild the city after the 1964 earthquake which destroyed most of the old city.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with the Hall of Military Glory. The Military Glory Hall is part of the Mayayev memorial complex in Volvograd (formely known as Stalingrad). The hall is 42 metres in diameter and the highest point of the ceiling is 13.5 metres. It is dominated by a sculpture of a hand holding a torch in which an eternal flame burns. An honour guard is provided by soldiers of the 46th Infantry Company of the Volgograd Garrison from 9:00 am to 7:00 or 8:00 pm, with an hourly changing of the guard ceremony. Thirty-four symbolic red banners line the wall of the hall, listing the names of about 7,200 of the defenders of Stalingrad.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with an image of Mamayev Hill. The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad (now known as Volvograd) and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Year: 1958
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1958 with an image of Palace Square in Leningrad, now known as St. Pietersburg. The Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire.
Many significant events took place there, including the Bloody Sunday massacre and parts of the October Revolution of 1917. Between 1918 and 1944, it was known as Uritsky Square in memory of the assassinated leader of the city’s Cheka branch, Moisei Uritsky.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture of the Ivan Chernyakhovsky statue in Vilnius made by sculptor N. Tomsky. The statue was dismantled by the authorities of Vilnius, and was reinstated in the Russian city of Voronezh that was defended in the fall of 1942 and liberated in January 1943 by the 60th Army under his command.
Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (1907-1945) was the youngest-ever Soviet General of the army. For his leadership during World War II he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union twice. He died from wounds received outside Königsberg at age 37 while in command of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Due to the rapid pre-war expansion of the military and 1937–1938 military purges, he quickly rose in rank. In 1938 he became commander of the 9th Light Tank Brigade. In March 1941 he became the commander of the 28th Tank Division in the Baltic Military District.
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Year: 1987
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1987 with the Chesme Column in St. Petersburg (formely known as Leningrad). The Chesme Column is a rostral column (a type of victory column) in the Catherine Park at the Catherine Palace, a former Russian royal residence at Tsarskoye Selo, a suburb of Saint Petersburg.
The column commemorates three Russian naval victories in the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War: the Battle of Chios, the Battle of Chesma and the Battle of Mytilene. It was constructed from 1774 to 1778 in the large pond of the landscape park of the Catherine Palace to Antonio Rinaldi’s designs.
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Year: 1991
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1991. The Peoples’ Friendship Arch is a monument in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was opened together with the All-Union Lenin Museum (today, Ukrainian House) on November 7, 1982 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the USSR and the celebration of the 1,500th Anniversary of the Kyiv city.
On 20 May 2016 the Ukrainian government announced plans to dismantle the arch as part of its decommunization laws.
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Year: 1979
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1979, with the monument of glory in the city of Kharkov. The majestic Memorial Memorial Complex of Glory was opened in 1977. Here the nazis shot thousands of patriots and civilians.
The memorial forms 3 memorable stele with cast banners and a number of park avenues. Visitors to the Memorial at the entrance are met by two walls with inscriptions on the reverse side. In the heart of the Memorial Complex of Glory is the mighty stele of the grieving “Mother of the Motherland” about the suffering, struggle and joy of the long-awaited Victory. Eternal flame blazes at the foot of the Memorial.
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Year: 1979
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1979, with the monument of Taras Shevchenko in the city of Shakty. Monument to Taras Shevchenko is a monument which is mounted in the town Shakhty in the Rostov region in memory of the Ukrainian poet and prose writer Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko.
The statue was placed in 1972 but in the early 1990s it was dismantled and a fountain appeared in its place.
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.
His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though the language of his poems was different from the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1978 with the monument of Vasily Chapaev. The monument was installed in Chapaev Square in front of the drama theatre.
It erected in 1932 to commemorate 15th anniversary of October Revolution and was designed by architect Iosif Langbard and sculptor Matvey Manizer.
Manizer was the first sculptor in the history of the Soviet art who decided to attempt creating a multi-figure equestrian sculpture. Amongst the figures are a commissar, a Bashkir soldier, a partisan peasant, a Tatar soldier in a torn shirt, a female in headscarf, a sailor and Chapaev on horseback with a sabre. Characters of the monument are based on real participants of the civil war.
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (1887-1919) was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986. On the postcard there is the monument “Monument Of Glory” in Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev. The Monument of Glory is the focal point of Slavy Square in Samara, Russia, overlooking the Volga river to the north-west.
It is dedicated to the Kuybyshev workers of aircraft industry, who were working hard during and following the Great Patriotic War. The monument is one of the most prominent symbols of Samara. Moscow sculptors Pavel Bondarenko, Oleg Kiryuhin and architect A. Samsonov created a design of the thirteen-meter-tall figure, made from high alloy steel with wings raised over his head and forty-meter pedestal. The pedestal symbolizes ray of light rising to the sky.
The monument was erected between 1968 and 1971 for donations of Kuybyshev workers and other staff members of production plants. Every worker could donate only one rouble. Kuybyshev mayor’s office chose a place for the monument in the city centre in the Leninsky district. The opening ceremony took place on 5 November 1971.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with the statue of Lesya Ukrainka. The monument was unveiled on October 3, 1973. and made by Architect A.F. Ignashchenko and sculptor G.N. Kalchenko.
Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) was one of Ukrainian literature’s foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with the statue of Taras Shevchenko. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.
His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though the language of his poems was different from the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the monument of The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on the 7th. of August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with a statue (out of many) on the square of Fallen Heroes in Volvograd (formerly knwon as Stalingrad). The memorial site is best known for the enormous statue “Motherland Calls”. The “Square of Heroes” part on this huge memorial site is a long waterpoul wich represents the river Volga wich was a stronghold of the Soviets in the battle of Stalingrad. Along the poul there are numerous statues and this is one of them.
The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture with the statue of Mayakovski. Vladimir Mayakovsky lived from 1893-1930 and produced a large body of work during the course of his career: He wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, and created propaganda posters in support of the Communist Party. He was an admirer of Lenin. Later he had numerous confrontations with the Soviet State because of the censorship they lay on all artistic works. After his suicide in 1930 Stalin declared him the best and most talented poet of the Soviet Union.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture of a statue of Tchaikovsky in Moscow. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He was honored in 1884 by Tsar Alexander III and awarded a lifetime pension.
Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the monument of Saint Vladimir. The Saint Vladimir Monument is a monument in Kyiv, dedicated to the Grand Prince of Kyiv Vladimir The Great. Built in 1853. It is located on Saint Vladimir Hill, the steep right bank of the Dnieper.
It is the oldest sculptural monument, a dominating feature of the Dnieper’s banks, and one of the city’s symbols.
The bronze statue of the Baptizer of the Rus’ people, depicting him in a coat with a big cross in his right hand and the Great Prince hat in his left, stands 4.4 m (14 ft) tall on a 16 m (52 ft) tall pedestal that has the silhouette of an octagonal chapel in pseudo-Byzantine style on a square stylobate. The brick pedestal and stylobate are revetted with cast iron plates. The total height of the monument is 20.4 m (67 ft). Started by Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, the monument was finished by Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg in 1853.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture of the Pushkin statue wich stands in the city of Tashkent in Uzbekistan. Alexander Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with a picture the statue of Abu Ali Ibn Sinnah (Avicenna) in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Ibn Sina often known as Abu Ali Sina, and often known in the West as Avicenna (980-1037), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna “arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era”. He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Greek Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, Ukraine, with the monument of the Great October Revolution. Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 in what is now Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city.
The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (8.9 m (29 ft)). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 5.25 m (17.2 ft) in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.
The monument was removed on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with a picture of a monument commemorating the 850th. anniversary of the foundation of the city on freedom square. Made in 1958.
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Year: 1991
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the monument of Saint Vladimir. The Saint Vladimir Monument is a monument in Kyiv, dedicated to the Grand Prince of Kyiv Vladimir The Great. Built in 1853. It is located on Saint Vladimir Hill, the steep right bank of the Dnieper.
It is the oldest sculptural monument, a dominating feature of the Dnieper’s banks, and one of the city’s symbols.
The bronze statue of the Baptizer of the Rus’ people, depicting him in a coat with a big cross in his right hand and the Great Prince hat in his left, stands 4.4 m (14 ft) tall on a 16 m (52 ft) tall pedestal that has the silhouette of an octagonal chapel in pseudo-Byzantine style on a square stylobate. The brick pedestal and stylobate are revetted with cast iron plates. The total height of the monument is 20.4 m (67 ft). Started by Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, the monument was finished by Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg in 1853.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with a statue of Nasr Ad Din wich stands in Uzbekistan.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the Monument To 14 in Uzbekistan.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with a statue (out of many) on the square of Fallen Heroes in Volvograd (formerly knwon as Stalingrad). The memorial site is best known for the enormous statue “Motherland Calls”. The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” in Volgograd, Russia, former Stalingrad.
It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 metres (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest statue of a woman in the world. The construction of the monument was started in 1959 and completed in 1967. It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel. It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with a statue (out of many) on the square of Fallen Heroes in Volvograd (formerly knwon as Stalingrad). The memorial site is best known for the enormous statue “Motherland Calls”. The “Square of Heroes” part on this huge memorial site is a long waterpoul wich represents the river Volga wich was a stronghold of the Soviets in the battle of Stalingrad. Along the poul there are numerous statues and this is one of them.
The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Year: 1990
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1990, with a statue (out of many) on the square of Fallen Heroes in Volvograd (formerly knwon as Stalingrad). The memorial site is best known for the enormous statue “Motherland Calls”. The “Square of Heroes” part on this huge memorial site is a long waterpoul wich represents the river Volga wich was a stronghold of the Soviets in the battle of Stalingrad. Along the poul there are numerous statues and this is one of them.
The Mamayev hill was the highest point in Stalingrad and thus an important objective of the German Army during the battle of Stalingrad.
Fighting for this hill began on 13 September 1942, when German troops assaulted the fortified Mamayev, which was defended by the Soviet Army. When the Germans took the hill, they began firing on the centre of Stalingrad. The Soviets retook Mamayev on 16 September 1942, suffering extreme losses. The Germans assaulted the hill an avarage of 12 times a day and the hill changed several times of ownership during the battle. The German Army managed to take half of Mamayev hill on 27 September 1942. This situation remained unchanged untill the defenders’s relief by the Sovjet winter offensive on 26 January 1943 wich was a turning point on the Eastern Front.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with an image of the museum of the Great Patriotic War. The memorial complex covers the area of 10 hectares (approximately 24.7 acres) on the hill, overlooking the Dnieper River. It contains the giant bowl “The Flame of Glory”, a site with World War II military equipment, and the “Alley of the Hero Cities”.
The sculptures in the alley depict the courageous defence of the Soviet border from the 1941 German invasion, terrors of the Nazi occupation, partisan struggle, devoted work on the home front, and the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper. The monumental sculpture of the “Motherland”, built by Yevgeny Vuchetich stands 62 meters tall upon the museum building with the overall structure measuring 102 m and weighing 530 tons.
The sword in the statue’s right hand is 16 m long weighing 9 tons, with the left hand holding up a 13 m by 8 m shield with the Coat of arms of the Soviet Union. The Memorial hall of the Museum displays marble plaques with carved names of more than 11,600 soldiers and over 200 workers of the home-front honored during the war with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Hero of Socialist Labor.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with a picture of Poet’s Garden in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with an obelisk in Moscow.
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Year: 1983
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1983. The postcard is called “Obelisk to honour the Hero City of Moscow”.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the picture of the Maxim Gorky statue in Moscow. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he traveled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.
Gorky was active in the Marxist communist movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Lenin and Bogdanov’s Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin’s personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936. After his return he was officially declared the “founder of Socialist Realism”.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with a picture of the famous Karl Marx statue in Moscow made by Lev Kerbel. The inscription on the front says:”Proletarian Of All Nations Unite!”. The real statue stands in Moscow on the revolution Square and is made by Lev Kerbel.
Lev Efimovich Kerbel (1917-2003) was a sculptor of Soviet realist works. Kerbel’s creations included statues of Marx, Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world.
In the 1990s following the collapse of the socialist bloc many of his works of art were destroyed. However his enormous Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt, has been preserved as a cultural monument.
Kerbel was born to a Russian Jewish family in the village of Semyonovka in Russia (currently Ukraine) on the day that the Winter Palace in Petrograd was stormed by the Bolsheviks setting off the October Revolution.
During World War II, Kerbel helped build the defenses for the Battle of Moscow, then served in the Northern Fleet.
After the war, Kerbel’s career took off with a wide range of commissions. In 1958 he sculpted a statue in China that depicted a huge Soviet and an equally large Chinese worker hand in hand. When Soviet-Chinese relations foundered a few years later, the statue was torn down by a mob. While some people dismiss Kerbel’s works as a form of flat Communist propaganda, Kerbel himself said that he was always more interested in art than politics. Many people now view his few remaining statues with nostalgia, particularly in Chemnitz (formerly known as Karl Marx Stadt, where his bust of Karl Marx is referred to as ‘the head’.
One of Kerbel’s last works was the memorial to the crew of the Kursk submarine, inaugurated in Moscow in 2003.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the Eternal Flame in Itkutsk. Irkutsk is one of 21 Russian cities where the Eternal Flame wasn’t lost. The flame in the memorial complex was lit during the 30th anniversary of the World War II victory on the May 9, 1975.
The inscription carved on the marble plates of the monument says: “Siberia, you forged victory together with all people”. Every year Irkutsk schoolchildren stand guard of honour next to the Eternal Flame.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, showing the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad).
The Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished, dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad.
The memorial complex designed by Alexander Vasiliev and Yevgeniy Levinson was opened on May 9, 1960. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in 186 mass graves. Near the entrance an eternal flame is located. A marble plate affirms that from September 4, 1941 to January 22, 1944 107,158 air bombs were dropped on the city, 148,478 shells were fired, 16,744 men died, 33,782 were wounded and 641,803 died of starvation.
By granite steps leading down from the eternal flame visitors enter the main 480-meter path which leads to the majestic Motherland monument. The words of poet Olga Berggolts are carved on a granite wall located behind this monument:
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985. On the postcard is the monument “Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution” wich stands in St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad). The Monument is a memorial on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg. It marks the burial places of some of those who died during the February and October Revolutions in 1917, and casualties who died between 1917 and 1933 in the Russian Civil War or otherwise in the establishment of Soviet power. It contains the first eternal flame in Russia.
Burials ceased after 1933, though the monument continued to be developed. Used for vegetable gardens and the site of artillery batteries during the siege of Leningrad, the name “Field of Mars” was restored in 1944, and the square was repaired after the war. The central space of the memorial, which had been covered with a circular lawn and floral displays, was replaced with a paved square in the late 1950s, with the first eternal flame in Russia at the centre, lit in 1957. The flame has been used as the source of eternal flames elsewhere in the city and in Russia, including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Moscow Kremlin Wall.
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Year: 1983
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1983, with the Konstantin Tsiolkovski monument in front of the Cosmos Hotel. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist who pioneered astronautic theory. He is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket-engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko who contributed to the success of the Soviet space program.
Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (120 mi) southwest of Moscow. A recluse by nature, his unusual habits made him seem bizarre to his fellow townsfolk.
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Year: 1988
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1988, with the monument of The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
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Year: 1988
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1988, with the monument of Alexander Puskin on Arts Square in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). There are several statues of Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, in St. Petersburg but the finest of them is probably that which stands in front of the State Russian Museum on Ploshchad Iskusstv (Arts Square).
The monument was created by sculptor Mikhail Anikushin and erected in 1957 to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg (the city was, of course, founded in 1703 but the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 delayed celebrations by a full four years).
Awarded the Lenin Prize in 1958 for his work, Anikushin said of his subject: “Pushkin was a man of very vivid character, straightforward in his actions and clear in his thoughts, therefore I tried to get rid of all superfluous details… I wanted the monument, the figure of Pushkin to radiate joy and sunshine”. Anikushin went on to design another statue of the poet, which stands at the end of the platform at Chernaya Rechka Metro Station.
Alexander Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the monument of Alexander Ostrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow. The monument to the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky is standing just at the walls of the Maly Theatre that since the last century has been called “The Ostrovsky house”: all his plays were staged here. The repertoire of the Maly Theatre always includes the plays of Ostrovsky that are of special pride of this theatre. The monument was created by a talented Russian sculptor Nickolay Andreev. The idea to erect the monument to Alexander Ostrovsky appeared in 1880s. Sculptor Andreev is known, first of all, by his sculpture images of Lenin. But for the Moscovites, the sitting in the armchair at the Maly theatre patriarch, is never associated with revolutionary upheavals. His image is a recollection of old Moscow, of Russian theatrical tradition.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union about the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument is a monument in Kyiv dedicated to the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Bohdan Khmelnytsky built in 1888. It is one of the oldest sculptural monuments, a dominating feature of Sophia Square and one of the city’s symbols. The monument is located almost in the middle of the Sophia Square (formerly the main city’s square) on the axis that unites both belltowers of the Sophia Cathedral and the St.Michael’s Monastery. Here on 23 December 1648 residents of Kyiv met Khmelnytsky leading his Cossacks’ regiments by entering the city through the Golden Gates soon after the victory over Polish Army at the battle of Pyliavtsi.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union. The text on the card reads:”At the entrance to the largest “spartak” stadium in the republic”.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the monument of Mikhail Artsybashev in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland where he died in 1927.
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Year: 1983
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1983, with a vieuw of the CMEA building and a monument to those who fought at the barricades in the Krasnaya Presnya District. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world.
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Year: 1980
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1980, with the building wich houses the battle of Borodino panorama. The almost unimaginable carnage of the clash between the French and Russian forces at the Battle of Borodino is brought to life in a 360-degree masterpiece of panoramic art in Moscow, Russia. Nearly 380 feet of canvas painted by painted by Russian artist Franz Roubaud depict the fighting of 1812 in dramatic detail, attempting to bring alive the battle that raged between more than 250,000 troops and ended with an estimated 70,000 casualties. Sound effects of battle sounds add to the mood of the scene.
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Year: 1980
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1980, with the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow. Lenin’s Mausoleum, also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime. Alexey Shchusev’s monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid, the Tomb of Cyrus the Great and, to some degree, the Temple of the Inscriptions.
Lenin died on 21 January 1924. Two days later, architect Alexey Shchusev was tasked with building a structure suitable for viewing of the body by mourners. A wooden tomb, in Red Square by the Moscow Kremlin Wall, was ready on January 27, and later that day Lenin’s coffin was placed in it. More than 100,000 people visited the tomb in the next six weeks.mBy August 1924, Shchusev had replaced the tomb with a larger one, and Lenin’s body was transferred to a sarcophagus designed by architect Konstantin Melnikov.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow. Lenin’s Mausoleum, also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime. Alexey Shchusev’s monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid, the Tomb of Cyrus the Great and, to some degree, the Temple of the Inscriptions.
Lenin died on 21 January 1924. Two days later, architect Alexey Shchusev was tasked with building a structure suitable for viewing of the body by mourners. A wooden tomb, in Red Square by the Moscow Kremlin Wall, was ready on January 27, and later that day Lenin’s coffin was placed in it. More than 100,000 people visited the tomb in the next six weeks.mBy August 1924, Shchusev had replaced the tomb with a larger one, and Lenin’s body was transferred to a sarcophagus designed by architect Konstantin Melnikov.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with an image of pushkin Square in Moscow. Pushkin Square in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. It was historically known as Strastnaya Square, and renamed for Alexander Pushkin in 1937.
At the center of the square is a statue of Pushkin.
Alexander Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the monument of M. B. Lomonosov in the village of Lomonosov. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Founder of modern geology. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
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Year: 1979
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the site of the fatal duel of M. Lermontov. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was a famous Russsian writer. He was the second greatest writer of Russia after Alexander Pushkin. In his work there was often a dislike of the Tsar who was supressing the Russian population. This made him not very much loved by the Tsars.
In 1837 Tsar Nicholas I banned Mikhail to the Kaukasus. It was in this time Mikhail wrote his masterpiece “A Hero Of Our Time” and he created paintings. Later he was allowed to return to St. Petersburg but in 1840 he was banned yet again after a duel with the son of the French Ambassador. In 1841 he stayed in Pyatigorsk. In Pyatigorsk he had yet another duel, with an officer called Nikolai Martynov.
Lermontov allegedly made it known that he was going to shoot into the air. Martynov was the first to shoot and he aimed straight into the heart, killing his opponent on the spot. On July 30 Lermontov was buried, without military honours, thousands of people attending the ceremony.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the statue of M.V. Lomonosov in the city of Arkhangelsk. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Founder of modern geology. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the Palace Square in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). The Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire.
Many significant events took place there, including the Bloody Sunday massacre and parts of the October Revolution of 1917. Between 1918 and 1944, it was known as Uritsky Square in memory of the assassinated leader of the city’s Cheka branch, Moisei Uritsky.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the monument of The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the monument of Saint Vladimir. The Saint Vladimir Monument is a monument in Kyiv, dedicated to the Grand Prince of Kyiv Vladimir The Great. Built in 1853. It is located on Saint Vladimir Hill, the steep right bank of the Dnieper.
It is the oldest sculptural monument, a dominating feature of the Dnieper’s banks, and one of the city’s symbols.
The bronze statue of the Baptizer of the Rus’ people, depicting him in a coat with a big cross in his right hand and the Great Prince hat in his left, stands 4.4 m (14 ft) tall on a 16 m (52 ft) tall pedestal that has the silhouette of an octagonal chapel in pseudo-Byzantine style on a square stylobate. The brick pedestal and stylobate are revetted with cast iron plates. The total height of the monument is 20.4 m (67 ft). Started by Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, the monument was finished by Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg in 1853.
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Year: 1989
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the bust of Shota Rustaveli. The bust stands in Abkhazia. Shota Rustaveli (1160-1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. Rustaveli was the author of The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, which is considered to be a Georgian national epic poem.
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union about the Millennium of Russia Monument. The Millennium of Russia is a bronze monument in the Novgorod Kremlin. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik’s arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of the history of Russian statehood.
A competition to design the monument was held in 1859. An architect Viktor Hartmann and an artist Mikhail Mikeshin were declared the winners. Mikeshin’s design called for a grandiose, 15-metre-high globus cruciger on a bell-shaped pedestal. It was to be encircled with several tiers of sculptures representing Russian monarchs, clerics, generals, and artists active during various periods of Russian history.
During World War II, the Germans dismantled the monument, and prepared it to be transported to Germany. However, the Red Army regained control of Novgorod and the monument was restored to public view in 1944.
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Year: 1980
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union about the Russalka Memorial. Made in 1980. The Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or “Mermaid”, which sank en route to Finland in 1893.
It was the first monument in Estonia made by an Estonian sculptor. The monument depicts an angel holding an Orthodox cross towards the assumed direction of the shipwreck. The model for the angel was the sculptor’s housekeeper Juliana Rootsi.
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union about the Russalka Memorial. The Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or “Mermaid”, which sank en route to Finland in 1893.
It was the first monument in Estonia made by an Estonian sculptor. The monument depicts an angel holding an Orthodox cross towards the assumed direction of the shipwreck. The model for the angel was the sculptor’s housekeeper Juliana Rootsi.
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Year: 1976
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union showing the Glory Hill Memorial in Yalta, Crimea. The complex opened on Darsan Hill in 1967, ahead of the anniversary of the October Revolution. The monument is dedicated to the warriors who perished during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. It is an impressive reinforced concrete ring covered with white Inkerman stone and a granite stela at its foot. The eternal flame kindled from the Malakhov Kurgan in Sevastopol burns there.
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Year: 1978
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1978, with the monument:”1905 Revolution”. The monument stands in the city of Tallinn in Estonia. The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to constitutional reform (namely the “October Manifesto”), including the establishment of the State Duma, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the Palace Square in Leningrad” (now St. Petersburg). The Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire.
Many significant events took place there, including the Bloody Sunday massacre and parts of the October Revolution of 1917. Between 1918 and 1944, it was known as Uritsky Square in memory of the assassinated leader of the city’s Cheka branch, Moisei Uritsky.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the monument “Heroic Defenders Of Leningrad” (now St. Petersburg). This powerful and impressive monument was built as the focal point of Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square) in the early 1970s to commemorate the heroic efforts of the residents of Leningrad and the soldiers on the Leningrad Front to the repel the Nazis in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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Year: 1985
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1985, with the monument “Broken Ring” in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). On November 22, 1941 a line of vehicles advanced on the frozen Ladoga Lake. It enabled the besieged city to be linked to the rest of the continent. To commemorate that event, the monument “Broken Ring” was erected near the lake in 1966.
It is made of two disjointed arches symbolizing the break of the blockade. The structure, made of reinforced concrete is 7 meters-high and weighs 32 tons. The monument is completed with tracks for trucks’ wheels in the concrete as well as an air gun. The monument “broken ring” is part of an ensemble dedicated to the Embargo on Leningrad (September 1941 – January 1944) by nazi Germany.
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Year: 1986
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with a pciture of the “Bronze Horseman” statue in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
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Year: 1987
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1987. On the postcard is the “Man And Dolphin” sculpture in the city of Abkhazia in Georgia.
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Year: 1982
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Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1982. On the card is the main entrance of Gorky park in the city of Vinnytsja in the Ukraine. Gorky Park is one of the favorite places of rest of residents and guests of Vinnitsa . It is located in the heart of the city and covers an area of 40 hectares.
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Poastcard made in the Soviet Union featuring the Peter The Great monument wich stands in the city of Arkhangelsk in the northern part of Russia.
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