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| April 16, 99: |
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Olympic pins selection has been added. There were many
Olympic pins already on Sport pins pages, but this one is exclusively devoted
to Moscow 1980 Olympic games and their Misha.
There are 38 pins in this
selection. |
| April 7,
99: |
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| Soviet Space Exploration Pins
Catalogue...coming
soon. |
A selection of Soviet military shoulder boards ("po-go-ny") has
been added.
I attached some reference charts on Soviet shoulder boards to that page.
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| April 5, 99: |
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10 new selections has been added:
Pins are priced individually. There are 220 pins in these selections. |
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| April 2, 99: |
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5 new selections has been added:
Pins are priced individually. There are 218 pins in these selections. |
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| April 1, 99: |
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Three selections has been
added.
Pins are priced individually. There are 111 pins in these selections.
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| March 31, 99: |
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- Selection of Featured
pins has been added :OSOAVIAHIM pins, Lenin. (code FEATURED #3).
Pins are priced individually from $0.50 to
$10.00. There are 20 pins for now.
- Soviet Army
& WWII Comemorative pins - Cities-heroes of the Soviet Union. (code
ARMY1).
Pins are $2.50 a piece. There are 24 pins.
Total: 44 pins have
been added. |
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| March 30, 99: |
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6selections of Space
Exploration pins have been added. Total:
161 pins.
- Very rare pins on Soviet cosmonauts. (codeSPACE1). Pins are
$4.50 a piece. There are 23 pins.
- Yuri Gagarin, other Soviet cosmonauts. (code SPACE2). Pins are
$2.50 a piece. There are 17 pins.
- Sspace ships, orbiters and other crafts. (code SPACE3). Pins are
$2.50 a piece. There are 41 pins.
- Joint flights in space - program
"Intercosmos". (code SPACE4).
Pins are $2.50 a piece. There are 28 pins.
- Space ships, orbiters and other crafts. (code SPACE5). Pins are priced at
$2.50 a piece. There are 43 pins.
- Space ships, orbiters and other crafts. (code SPACE6). Pins are priced at
$2.50 a piece. There are 9 pins.
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| March 29, 99: |
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New selection of
"Komandirskie"
(Officers') military watches (Vostok
brand) added (13 watches). Including a cool looking KGB watch. These watches
are priced at $39.00 a piece. Also 8 new watches from Pobeda and
Slava brands. $29.00 a piece.
I am currently scanning and processing several hundreds of new pins:
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Exploration, Ships, Sport &
Olympic, Aviation. It sure takes a lot of time. I purchased a new UMAX scanner
(though my old HP ScanJet 5p produced better quality scans), but they have a
great software which has a batch scanning feature. It will scan pins from a
selection and save them into separate files.
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| Selection of
28
Ukranian pins has been
added. Pins are priced at $0.50 a piece |
| March 15, 99: |
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"Soviet
Collectibles & Memorabilia" ring created.
Membership is free. You are welcome to join the ring, if you have a site
devoted to the topic.
Currently, there is only one site: |
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| March 10, 99: |
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| I joined "Amazon associates program". I will link pins on
different topics with corresponding books sold on............ |
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If you would like to know more on what is this
pin about, go to amazon.com by clicking on
Buy this book (they do have low prices) and I will give you a
free pin as a bonus. The first book I
recommend to read is Icebreaker : Who Started the Second World
War? by Viktor Suvorov. It is an eye-opener ! See my
review and links to its online
copies <in Cyrillic>. It is the best
illustration of any Soviet pin commemorating the Great Patriotic
War (1941-1945) <As you know
WWII was started on Sep.1, 1939 with the invasion to Poland and
was over on Aug.9, 1946 with the capitulation of Japan.> |
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March 1, 99:
24 more new
watches added in all categories.
SEE 
Quantities are limited, please check the availability
before ordering.
February 26, 99:
Wow ! I havn't
realised that I am getting so many visitors ! More than 200visits per day (average). I used a
Web Trends software to analyse the log file and here is
the reportNow I will
be more attentive to details. And nobody compalined that using Netscape
browsers they were getting javascript errors. By the way, the counter
showing you a number of visits is pointing to the mirror site on Tripod
and shows only the visitors redirected from there...
I removed 'flip buttons' effect from the navigational frame,
as it was not compatible with Netscape Navigator browsers. Javascript behaves
differently in different browsers, I will bring it back when I find another
implementation of this effect.
February 24, 99:
A New Section
Soviet pins
from private collections was added.
I expect these selection to grow up to 10.000
pins this year. Beware AMAZON.COM ! We will have
more pins then you do.
February 20, 99:
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Did you miss a broad selection of
Lenin, or - Vladimir Iljitch
Uljanov-Lenin. These pins are more valuable then Mao-Tse-Dun
pins. Who left a bigger mark in the history of civilization ? Five-ten more
years and they will worth their weight in gold. Could you find any Stalin, or
Joseph Vissarionovitch
Djugashvilli-Stalin pins for me ? I will pay in gold...
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February 19, 99:
I am adding reference information and linking it to
every pin. This will be useful for people who don't read in Russian abd would
like to know the background information on a particular pin. Sort of "Pins
Encyclopedia". I will make a translations of the notes and small
descriptions of the events commemorated by these pins. I started doing it with
a selection of new pins on Soviet Space
Exploration:
Soviet
Cosmonauts
Al facts and statistics were provided by Alexandr Anikeevfrom his
web site: Piloting
Aeronautics
Thank you, Alexandr.
February 15, 99:
New Selections of Soviet Pins added:
February 11, 99:
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New selection of Lenin (~162) and Ice Hockey (~ 60) pins. 400
more pins are still unsorted and un-scanned, including a lot of
nice"Space Exploration"pins. ETA is 3rd week of
February.
I am planning the new section:THE
CATALOGUE ! Next year it will feature
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pins the from huge collections of pins and badges. These
collections are still in Russia, but you will have a chance to order the pins
of your choice through this catalogue.
You can find some in-depth information on "Rocketa" brand watches
in this fascinating article about the perpetual watch by Paul Delury and the
Technical Analysis of quartz watches.
Are they better than mechanical ?
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January 21, 99:
Now visitors to my site can leave their ads on a classified
page. All ads related to trade or sell of various collectibles are welcomed.
Look classifiedas and
add your ad.
Visitors can send me notes from a web page
here without using their mail software.
Refreshed a navigational frame with buttons which change
background color
All Space pins are sold out.
November 30, 98:
"Soviet Pins" is a part of a bigger site
www.SADCOM.com The introduction page
is Dynamic HTML file with moving "targets", for static version use
this link.
You will find my wife's paintings in oil and watercolor (she
belongs to Russian art school painting in "Russian
Impressionism"), My photo archive (thousands pictures from 1985-98),
my collection of Russian samovars, Soviet Politburo posters, Story of Porvoo's
Panorama.
I am trying to enhance a look and functionality of my web
site. The navigational toolbar on the left is a java applet. Please, leave your
comments about my site - I appreciate your feedback.
mailto:sadcom@pressroom.com
August 9, 98:
~ 750
more pins have been added to the collection: Lenin(TO,TP,TQ,TR,TS),
Space(TM,
TN), Aviation (TL) and more Town Crests.
August 1, 98:
Page with Soviet
collectible watcheshas been added.
July 30, 98
My site has been moved to another server and received its own
domain name www.sadcom.com
April 30, 98:
A page with Soviet Army sleeve patches has been added
April 28, 98:
Plates SA, SB, SC now have image maps which allows you by
clicking on a pin photo to see it in a better resolution.Also, there is a name
of a pin on a title bar, when you slide the mouse over its image.
If you don't see the navigational frame
on the left, please, go to Index
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