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| Location | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1970 |
| Type | Commemorative medal |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a detailed relief view of Lenin's birthplace, a two-storey wooden house in Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk), flanked by trees and a gate structure. Above the building, a radiant sunburst motif with a five-pointed star at its apex dominates the upper field. The legend ЛЕНИН arcs along the upper rim in Cyrillic and LENIN along the lower rim in Latin characters, separated by an olive branch in the lower field. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain textured field bearing the large raised date 1870, the birth year of Vladimir Lenin, centrally placed in the field with no additional design elements. |
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