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We are pleased to offer here, 
ORIGINAL Soviet  ORDER LENIN  #443461 
GOLD PLATINUM ULTRA RARE SOVIET RUSSIA USSR with the document 1973.
Lenin Order is the highest award of the USSR 
for outstanding achievements in the revolutionary movement, 
employment, protection of the socialist motherland, 
the development of friendship and cooperation between peoples, 
the promotion of peace and other particularly outstanding services to the Soviet state and society.

Excellent, ULTRA RARE item for collectors of Soviet Russian heritage!

This order in this collection for one person:
Alferov Vasily Ivanovich.
In the collection:
1. Order of Lenin -  gold, platinum, enamel, original, 
with a document of 1973, original box, USSR - Soviet Union.
This Lenin Order serial number #443461 - Type 5, Variant 2, Variation 1.
The serial number is located horizontally above the two lower rivets, 
below the words "mint". At number is a thin horizontal line. 
Minimum Order known number - 382 246, the maximum - 460051. 

Description Order.

Order of Lenin is a sign depicting a portrait medallion
Lenin made of platinum, placed in a circle, 
framed by a golden wreath of wheat ears. 
Dark gray enamel background around the 
medallion-portrait smooth and bounded by two 
concentric gold rims, between which is laid a ruby-red enamel. 
On the left side of the wreath placed five-pointed star at the bottom - 
the hammer and sickle, right at the top of the wreath - the expanded banner red banner. 
The star, the hammer and sickle and a banner covered with ruby ??red enamel and bordered 
by the contour gold rims. On the banner in golden letters the inscription "Lenin".

Order of Lenin is made of gold, consignment relief of Lenin is made of platinum. 
Pure gold in the Order of 28,604 ± 1,1 g of platinum - 2.75 g (September 18, 1975). 
The total weight of the Order - 33,6 ± 1,75 g

Order Height 40.5 mm, the width of the order of 38 mm, 
the diameter of the portrait medallion - 25 mm.

Order by using the tab and the ring is connected 
to the pentagonal block covered with silk moire ribbon 24 mm wide, 
in the middle of the tape longitudinal red stripe width of 16 mm, 
the edges of the middle band two golden strips 1.5 mm wide, 
then two red bars on the 1, 5 mm, and the two gold bars to 1 mm.

The history of the Order.

Order of Lenin - the highest Soviet award, 
which occupies in the hierarchy of the Order's top step. 
Founded before the Great Patriotic War, 
the Order of Lenin repeatedly mutated. 
The idea of ??creating this order was proposed Levichev VN July 8, 1926. 
The Order was originally proposed to be called "The Order of Ilyich."

In the creation of the Order of the project was attended 
by artist I. hitting and well-known sculptor, ID Shadr. 
The basis for the creation of a relief image of the leader on the sign 
of the Order of Lenin was the photograph, made in 1921 at the III Congress 
of the Comintern. In 1934, efforts to change the pattern of the Order spent medalist A. Vasyutinskiy.

The first awarding of the Order of Lenin was made by the 
Decree of the Presidium of the Central Election Commission May 23, 1930. 
According to this Decree was awarded the Order of Lenin №1 
newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" for contribution in strengthening 
the pace of socialist construction and in connection with the fifth anniversary of its founding.

Excellent, ULTRA RARE item for collectors of Soviet Russian heritage!

No cleaning. A condition on a REAL photo.

Look at the ACTUAL photos! You receive what you see.

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