GLORY/TO THE GREAT/MOTHERLAND/[in exergue] . JANUARY ./1959: Rocket launching into space, r.; in background, Moscow University building with radiant sun above
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TO COMMEMORATE THE LAUNCHING OF THE WORLD'S FIRST SPACE ROCKET/[within pentagon] USSR/JANUARY/1959//[inscription at center of field] ...I BELIEVE THAT MANY/OF US WILL BEAR WITNESS/TO THE FIRST/JOURNEY INTO THE/ OUTER SPACE/K.Tsiolkovskii: Pentagon with legend in field above.
MOSCOW in ex.: Mason, standing behind brick wall, facing front, holding trowel in r. hand and brick in l.: behind, on r., Moscow highrises and tree branches.
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Monument of Minin and Pozharskiy with St. Basil's Cathedral in background on l. and Kremlin on r.