Russian USSR City Vintage badges *1950-1973 * Select one Pin (or more) * 13.3

Description: Vintage pins, collected 1950-1973. Russian USSR Cities. Select one (or more) pin. Order like this: Set 13.3 - #4; Set 13.4 - #1 and #7 etcWill ship Pin #1 from set 13.3 unless request other. I bought most of these pins on my business trips. Communist party of the USSR made a decision to build country houses the same way as they built in cities. They would have the same utilities (water, sour, gas, paved roads, etc.) like city houses have. The plan was to build about 400 experimental villages around the USSR. My goal was to visit these construction sites and to prepare a report for the Soviet Ministry department about the construction progress. During these trips (1969-1973y) I collected a fair amount of pins from all over the USSR. Note: Names of the cities as it was that time. More info on Google and Wikipedia Pin.rus.13-3 1. Pechora 2. 2. Nerl 3. 3. Volgograd 4. 4. Ufa (House-museum of Lenin) From here I took 2 weeks canoe trip on White-River 5. 5. Kemerovo 6. 6. Smolensk 7. 7. Pyatigorsk, Caucasus region. . 1952 y. After finishing 2nd year in college we got placement for the summer practice. I get place in Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Mountains. You can dream about it. But suddenly, another student, Krechetnikov started to complain as this city where he lives. It was his chance to go to his house to his family. He and other students started to persuade me to switch our placements. Finally I gave up and took Hotkovo in Moscow district, but I got that pin as a present from Krechetnikov) 8. 8. Kizhi. Built 17-18th century (Worth to visit, church was built without single nail) 9. 9. Kuibyshev. I ended up somehow on a concrete plant. I approached a place where a dredge fed gravel to the top. A scraper can’t pick up gravel by itself. Life here was busy. Several women, using shovels, threw gravel into the bucket. Their young faces were covered with sweat. Dull tenacity. In their eyes, turned to me, I saw some kind of question. The bucket filled up with gravel crawled to the top, and in its place came down an empty one. Small chubby faced gal looked at me with intense persistency. Her slender figure was seen under a coarse quilted coat. Trampled boots covered her feet. She was hot. With the end of the dark towel, used to cover her head instead of a headscarf, she kept wiping her sweaty face. Seizing the moment, when one bucket was full, but the button had not yet being pressed to go up, she approached me. “Comrade Engineer, are you from Moscow?” she asked me. “Yes, I am from Moscow”, I replied. “So, please explain to us, illiterate people, why we send two girls to Moscow twice a month, so that they could buy cold cuts, sausages, cheeses in your Eliseevskyi store, and if you are lucky, even chicken and meat?” I did not know how to react to this question and mumbled something in response. By that moment, all the other girls surrounded me and interrupting each other, shouted that there was nothing to eat here, and even tomato have to be brought from Moscow. “Of cause, you, Muscovite, have to have everything, and what about us? Nothing? Oh, yes, sometimes bloody sausage showed up in a store, and then there are lines for two hours in order to get some. Our salary is 1000 rubles, so we have to raise money to send someone to Moscow. They have to spend almost two days in transit, but what can we do? We want to take a bite of cold cuts too, at least once a month.” they shouted. I was trying to say something in response, to assure them that these questions are useless to address to me. But nobody wanted to hear that and they continued to shout at me, interrupting each other. All of a sudden one of the women, probably the oldest one, stopped their shout. “Ok, enough about gluttony. We are not dying from starvation”, she said. “Do you know, Mr. Engineer from Moscow, that my husband had to get up at 2 AM to get in line in the hospital, so I could see a doctor in the morning, pardon me, women’s stuff”, she added. All the others joined this conversation. And I had, and I had….” “We wrote a letter to Tereshkova (1st woman cosmonaut). She replied a month later saying that they figure it out, fix it… And that was it. You can, of cause, skip the line if you grease the palm. And where to get this grease? We live from paycheck to paycheck. And do you think it is easy to wonder from line to line in Moscow carrying 20 kg bags in each hand? And then drag it to the Metro. You probably derive a car, instead.” The head of the concrete plant came to the rescue. Bulky man shouted: “Hey women, stop this bazaar, there is an empty gravel bucket calls for you, and this engineer is as hard working person as you all are. Is he a food distributer for the country?” He took me aside and we went to his office. I wiped a cold sweat from my forehead. “Oh Boy, I really got into trouble with these women”, I thought. 10 . Magnitigorsk 11. Tutaev 12. Sever (North) 13. Tula. Famous to make samovar – see picture. (3 hours by train from Moscow. Russian joke: Please guess - What is: Long; Green; Smell like sausages? Not guess? OK this is a train from Moscow to Tula. Why? - Train is long - It is painted by green - All shelves in the train staffed with products bough in Moscow. With so shortage of milk, bread, meat cheese, just everything people from other cities came to Moscow to buy some food. Pin.rus.13-4 1. 1. Save the Earth2. 2. Tver, ancient historic city3. 3.Zaraisk4. 4. Gorkii5. 5. Astrakhan ( Heaven of black caviar)6. 6. Smolensk, coat of arm7. 7. Borisov8. 8. Yakutia, center of diamond production, Siberia9. 9. Kazan. (September, 1941 y. Order to evacuate all children from Moscow. I and my mommy went to Kazan, and from there to…more story by your request)1 10. Irkutsk, Baikal Lake region 11. Maritsipalny Water, resort 12. Belgorod 13. Klin Pin.rus.13-41. 1. Khokhloma. The world famous decorative dishes2. 2. Save the Earth3. 3.Tsaritsyno4. 4. Murmansk. Musical festival, 1963 y.5. 5. Novocherkassik6. 6. Chelyabinsk District. (1957y. I finished a college and government sent me to work in Ch. Bridge construction. In the USSR it is not your decision where to work, they decide it for you. From Ch. they sent me to Lisakovka, center of undeveloped land (North Kazakhstan). As a result I lost “propiska” which screw up my life for next 15 years. If you don’t know what is propiska, you are lucky, if you want to know, I can sent you long story of 15 years of my life.)7. 7. Zavolzhsk8. 8 .Yasnaya Polyana. Birthplace of Lev Tolstoy9. Podolsk, Coat of Arm. October 1964 I got new 2 room apartment in a new 5-story building, and got the keys! It was a rumor that some apartment, which not occupied by resident can be illegally taken by other family with kids and it can take years to remove them off. But if you have some of your stuff in the apartment, and it will be taken, you have more rights to take it back as it will be treated as a robbery. I remember that. My hands were shaken when I got the keys. My own decent living place with all facilities inside, including gas! Can you imagine? With trembling hands I opened the door and enter our new place. It smelled fresh paint. The first I need to get all faucets as they were not installed. (It will be stolen). To make my rooms occupied I took off all my underwear, including socks and hanged it on widows. Also, I asked my neighbor for chair and some more staff, so an apartment will look like occupied. We bought and sold houses in US many times, but I never have the same feeling, like I had at that time. Our own new home! 10 .CCCP / USSR, Kuban, the best agriculture lands in Russia. 11. Europe / Asia 12. Gorky 13 . Yaroslavl, ancient city. Coat of Arm Same or next day shipment from Nevada Feedback We would highly appreciate if you could leave us a positive feedback. We want you to be 100% satisfied with your shopping experience. If you are not satisfied for any reason, kindly contact us. We will try our best to resolve the issue. We will leave positive feedback on all yours Thank you for bidding, Vic.

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