Commemorative desk medal honouring the Bolshevik and Soviet leader Sergei Kirov issued in 1977 for the 90th anniversary of his birth.

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Statue of Soviet leader Iosif Stalin in the city of his birth, Gori, Georgia.

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Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died early on the 10th November 1982. He was succeeded two days later by Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Yuri Andropov in his Kremlin office. 1982-83.

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