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  • 15 Kopecks 1967, Y# 137, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
  • 15 Kopecks 1967, Y# 137, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
Description

The October Revolution, officially known in the Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 (by the Julian or Old Style calendar, which corresponds to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar). As the revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Issue date: 1 October 1967
Artist: P. D. Volkov
Sculptors: V. A. Zasukhin, A. V. Kozlov

Obverse

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union (fourth version, 1956–1991) and the denomination (15 Kopecks).

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is composed of a sickle and a hammer on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat wrapped around a ribbon with 15 turns. At the top of the Emblem is a five-pointed star.

15 копеек

Reverse

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument and commemorative dates.

Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman) is a famous landmark of monumental art, "the ideal and symbol of the Soviet epoch", that represents a dynamic sculpture group of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads. It is 24.5 meters (78 feet) high, made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow where it was placed just outside the Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy (VDNKh). The sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic style, as well as Art Deco style. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.

In Soviet cinema, Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa monument was chosen in 1947 to serve as the logo for the film studio Mosfilm. A giant moving reproduction of the statue was featured in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, symbolizing post-WWII Soviet society, particularly in Moscow. The Magic is Might monument in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is based on the statue.

1917
1967

Edge
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Copper Nickel Zinc
Weight 3.4 g
Diameter 19.56 mm
Thickness 1.6 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Leningrad Mint (LMD)

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