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    Hi,

    I have this heavy piece and planning to put it up on sale. Before that I would like to find out what it is actually. Can it be some kind of an award, decorative piece or paper weight? It is ca. 7,5 cm high and 6 cm wide. I actually can't be even 100% sure is it Russian. It came out from one old house in Estonia.

    Kind Regards,

    Noor

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    This is a souvenir from soviet time.

    Ideologically "loaded" of course.

    What we have here is a Russian version of British armored car Austin (known as Ostin-Putilovez)

    http://www.opoccuu.com/austinp.htm

    http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%F1%F2%E8%ED_(%E1%F0%EE%ED%E5%E0%E2%F2%EE%EC%EE%E1%E8%EB%FC)

    When Lenin arrived to Russia on April 3,1917 he made his speech from the very same armored car

    http://whoyougle.ru/texts/lenin-armoured-car/

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    Nope.

    It was called like that because this version of British armored car was developed and manufactured by Putilov factory (Putilov is the name of the ex-owner of this famous russian weaponry factory).

    Today it is known as Kirov factory.

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    Nope.

    It was called like that because this version of British armored car was developed and manufactured by Putilov factory (Putilov is the name of the ex-owner of this famous russian weaponry factory).

    Today it is known as Kirov factory.

    Aa, great, learned something new today ;)

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