USSR commemorative coin

Series: 50 th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution

Par : 15 kopecks

Release Date: 01.10.1967

Mint: Leningrad (LMD) (ST. Petersburg).

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is a 24.5 meter (78 feet) high sculpture made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. 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, placed just outside the Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy.