Unique collection of 22 Olympic team and commemorative medals from the former Soviet Union, Russia, and Azerbaijan, including 14 from the USSR (CCCP in the Cyrillic alphabet) from 1964 to 1988. Most of these medals were presented to Olympic team members and many feature a cloisonné red enamel banner that says in Cyrillic "Sbornaya Komanda," which means national team. The medals cover such Olympic events as: Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics; Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics (2); Munich 1972 Summer Olympics; Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympics; Innsbruck 1976 Winter Olympics; Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics; Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympics; Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics (3); Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics; Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics; Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics; Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics; Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics; Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics (2); Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics (3); and Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
Highlights include two large commemorative medals issued during the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics for the sailing events in Tallinn, Estonia; a beautiful golden medal for the Russian Olympic Committee issued during the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics; and a rectangular medal from the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics representing the Unified Team, which lists the 12 former Soviet republics on the reverse in Cyrillic—Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The majority of these medals are housed in their original boxes and cases. Gymnast Olga Korbut, sprinter Valery Borzov and figure skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov are among the athletes who received Olympic participation medals from the Soviet Union or their respective countries after the breakup of the USSR. An unprecedented assemblage of medals commemorating the glorious Olympic record of the Russian people.
