Soviet Other Prizes

[Ed_Haynes]

We have (by implication) a thread that touches on the Lenin Prize

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18407

and one focused on the Stalin Prize

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=17932

but what about the others?

As badly documented as they are, maybe we can contribute something.

[Ed_Haynes]

State Prize Medal

The single-class successor to the Stalin Prize and the three-class State Prize. This one is said to date from the 1970s-1980s, #7584.

[Ed_Haynes]

Council of Ministers Prize Medal

Created in 1981, this is the early type with stamped serial number (most are engraved), #0245.

[Benas]

And Prize Medals from my collection:

USSR State's Prize Medal, without class, gold...

USSR State's Prize Medal, 2nd class ... (this 2nd class medal I have twice, can sell one)

USSR State's Prize Medal, 3rd class....

Edited July 28, 2007 by Benas

[Benas]

...revers...

[Benas]

Soviet Trade-Union Prize Medal

[Benas]

--- and back side of Soviet Trade-Union Prize Medal

[Ed_Haynes]

A nice and very uncommon one!

[pluribus]

Isak Prize with the document from my collection.

[Alfred]

Pluribus,

what is the number and when was it awarded?

regards

Andreas

[pluribus]

Andreas,

It`s No.4790. Awarded on August, 12th, 1985. It`s pinback. Gilded bronze, enamel.

Regards,

pluribus

Edited August 7, 2007 by pluribus

[Alfred]

Thanks,

I have two other dates in my serial number data base.

1.101 - 29.07.1982

1.275 - 04.07.1985

regards

Andreas

[Bob]

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Posted on another site - but will focus here going forward (GMIC was down for me yesterday for some reason).

I like these less mainstream awards - even nicer of course WITH documentation / background but we can't have it all.

First up, People's Teacher of the USSR. LMD mint mark on both ob- and reverse of ring. No serial number on reverse unfortunately despite a line being there presumably for it.

[Bob]

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Next up the Krupskaya award for literacy efforts

Some background below

"The International Literacy Prizes 1966-2000

Each year from 1966 UNESCO has celebrated INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY with the aim to sensitize and mobilize international public opinion and to elicit their interest and active support for literacy activities ? one of UNESCO?s major preoccupations since its first General Conference in 1946. On this day, the Director-General of UNESCO addresses a message to the world, appealing to individuals, organizations and states to demonstrate their support and solidarity for literacy and to promote non-formal education for all, particularly for those who have been excluded from the school system.

This annual celebration started following a recommendation of the World Conference of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy which met in Tehran in September 1965. The Conference recommended that 8 September, the date of the inauguration of the Conference, be proclaimed International Literacy Day and be observed world-wide. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran proposed that UNESCO award an international literacy prize for meritorious work in the struggle against illiteracy, and created the Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Prize (1967-1978) which was, from 1967 to 1969, the only literacy award presented.

Two other prizes, the Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize (1970-1991) and the Iraq Literacy Prize (1989-1991) were awarded for 19 years and 11 years respectively.

At present five international literacy prizes are awarded each year:

The International Reading Association Literacy Award, created in 1979 by the International Reading Association, a non-governmental organization

The Noma Literacy Prize created in 1980 by the late Shoichi Noma, President of Kodansha Ltd., Publishers

The two King Sejong Literacy Prizes created in 1989 by the Government of the Republic of Korea to commemorate a king who invented, more than 500 years ago, an alphabet consisting of 22 easy to learn letters

The Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize created in 1998 by the Government of India to commemorate the late Malcolm Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and Chairman of the International Literacy Prize Jury.

The three categories of recognition awarded are:

The five Prizes consisting of a cheque for US $15,000, a silver medal and a diploma

Honourable Mentions consisting of a diploma and a bronze medal

Recognitions by the Jury in the International Literacy Prize award list "

source: http://www.unesco.org/education/literacy_2000/history.html

[Bob]

List of recipients:

1970 Mongolia Language and Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences

1971 Zambia Zambia Adult Literacy Programme

1972 Iran Education Corps

1973 Tanzania West Lake Region Literacy Project

1974 Rwanda Shyorongi Community Development Circle (CEDECOS)

1975 Somalia Abidirizak Mohamoud Abukar

1976 Syria Literacy Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture

1977 - none?

1978 Vietnam Commune of Cambinh, Pilot Literacy and Complementary Education Unit

1979-1 Iraq Supreme Council of the National Campaign for Compulsory Literacy of Iraq

1979-2 Peru People?s Union of Peruvian Women

1980 Nicaragua Nicaraguan National Literacy Campaign

1981 Cuba Federation of Cuban Women

1982 India Directorate of Non-formal and Adult Education of Tamil Nadu

1983 Lesotho Lesotho Distance Learning Centre

1984 Cuba Cuban National Association of the Blind

1985 Laos Xiengkho District

1986 China Wu Lien Country in Shandong Province

1987 Indonesia Mrs Eriyah

1988 Angola National Literacy Centre

1989 Jamaica Jamaican Movement for Advancement of Literacy (JAMAL)

1990 China People?s Government of Xiping County, Henan Province

1991 Pakistan Adult Basic Education Society (ABES), Gujranwala

By the way, if somebody could help translate the reverse of the award? Thanks :cheers:

[Bob]

http://www.unesco.org/education/prizewinners_1967_2001.pdf

Link to complete list which includes (on top of the above):

- winners of other literacy awards (non-USSR)

- honorable mentions (incl. for the Krupskaya one)

Given the extremely select number of awardees, I'm inclined to believe there may be mint escapees on the market... but even then not that many as the one I recently acquires is the first one I've seen for sale.

Unfortunately not numbered - makes you wonder whether there was any rationale behind numbering some awards yet not others.