Numismatics

The main part of this section is made up of pre-revolutionary coins of the period from XVIII to the beginning of the XX century, coined at the mints of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yekaterinburg; the most interesting coins in the collection are those dating to the times of the reign of Peter I.

Due to an active policy of acquisition carried out in the 1970-1980-ies the ... ↓ Soviet period (coins of 1921-1991) is represented almost to a full extent. A separate part of the section containing commemorative and anniversary coins is being constantly updated at present. ↑

The most interesting part of the collection presents samples of talented Russian (Timofey Ivanov, Samoilo Yudin, Fyodor Tolstoy, etc.) and foreign but working in Russia medal artists (Solomon Gouin, Johann Baltsar Gass, Carl Leberecht, Henrich Gube).

The collection displays a wide range of commemorative medals of the Soviet period.

This section of collection includes the signs of educational organizations (civil and military), signs of public institutions and departments, various charitable institutions, societies, unions and committees.

Many signs were fulfilled at high artistic level by famous Russian factories of XIX-XX centuries, such as “Edward”, Wunder brothers’, “E.Courtman”, ... ↓ “D.Osipov”. ↑

This section includes complexes of awards belonging to many outstanding military and political figures of Russia (Pilutov P.A., Pokrishev P.A., Zinchenko A.R., Shikin I.V.) and prominent representatives of science and culture (Lihachev D.S., Filatov A.N., Zhukovski P.M., Levinson E.A., Rudnev L.V.)

The most interesting part of collection is represented by the signs and badges of 1920-1930-s, such as the signs for excellent participants of socialist competition of various ministries and departments, the signs of the 5-year-plan shock workers, the badges of voluntary societies and organizations.

Thanks to the acquisition of rich collections of soviet badges from such ... ↓ collectors as Dunaevski M.I. and Kirillovski K.A. , the fund widely displays the badges of 1950-1970s, reflecting practically all aspects of social and cultural life of that period. ↑