40 Years VLKSM Bronze Commemorative Medal

Medal commemorating 40 years of All-Union Lenin Communist Union of Youth (VLKSM or Komsomol). Diameter 68 mm. Circa 1958.

 
VLKSM - A youth political organization. It was created during the First All-Russian Congress of Worker and Peasant Youth on October 29, 1918, and was initially called the Russian Communist Union of Youth (RKSM), RLKSM from 1924, and VLKSM from 1926. The Union's first program specified that it was affiliated with RKP(b) (Russian Communist Party (of the bolsheviks)) and saw "its task in spreading the ideas of communism and involving the worker and peasant youth into active construction of the Soviet Russia." Additionally, the Komsomol's task included the communist upbringing based on the involvement of the worker youth in the political struggle, supplemented by theoretical education. Besides that, the Komsomol was a more popular organization than the party since the party was a leader of the proletariat, its members were supposed to possess at least a minimal political qualificaton. Komsomol was an organization aimed at upbringing, it could accept even "raw material", uninitiated young proletarians. Sturcturally, the Komsomol (TsK VLKSM) was directly subordinate to the party (TsK VKP(b)). The 22nd Extraordinary Congress of VLKSM (September 1991) decided the role of VLKSM as a federation of communist unions of youth to be completed.

 

Moscow Red Square Medal

 
Obverse: Monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky (Erected in 1818). The Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed (built in the 16th century by master builders Barma and Posnik, and also known as the Cathedral of the Intercession) with its cupolas in the background. Nabatnaya Tower (one of 18 towers) of the Kremlin Wall to the right.
Reverse: Moscow construction worker and the building of Moscow State University to the right. 'MOSKVA' inscription.
Struck in 1958 by the Leningrad Mint. Diameter: 65 mm (2 1/2"). Engraved by Ashba.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nikita Khrushchev Visit to Paris Commemorative Medal, 1960
 
Bronze medal struck by the French Mint commemorating the visit of Nikita Khrushchev (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR 1958-1964)
to Paris in 1960.
Diameter: 78 mm.

 

Russian Painter Isaac Levitan Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Portrait of Levitan and inscription LEVITAN ISAAC ILYCH 1860 - 1900.

Reverse: Levitan's painting AFTER THE RAIN.

68 mm x 55 mm.

Engraved by Korolyk. Struck by the Leningrad Mint.

 

1957 World Festival of Youth and Students Soviet Commemorative Medal
Bronze medal commemorating the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Moscow in 1957.
Engraved by V. M. Akimushkina. Diameter: 67 mm.