1976 Montreal Commemorative USSR Olympic Team NOC Pin. I believe these were made prior to the 1980 Summer Olympic Games held in Moscow, USSR. These are used and all look like they have been worn many times. Soviet factory back stamp. Safety pin pin-backs. A very elaborate design for such early pins. Please see the scan for the actual pin on auction. Note: As always, I will include a mint Olympic pin free in appreciation for your purchase. Please visit my store for hundreds of pins from other Olympics. If you buy 1 or 100 pins from my auctions or store, shipping will only be $1.25 to any world wide address.
About the Series: The Soviet Union sent their 1st Summer Olympic Team to the 1952 Summer Olympic Games held in Helsinki, Finland. The series also includes 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome, 1964 Tokyo, 1968 Mexico City, 1972 Munich, and 1976 Montreal. Each features the specific Olympic Games Mark and a beautiful depection of a Gold Medal with neck ribbon. These are 1 1/2" (40mm) high and 7/8" (23mm) wide.
What is an NOC? A national Olympic Committee is the governing and coordinating Olympic organization within a specific nation. It works with the various national sports associations and federations, promotes the Olympic movement, fields national teams for regional and international competitions, and coordinates bids for candidate cities for future Games. Each committee is further associated with one of five continental Olympic Associations organized according to geographic location. The 200+ current NOCs are members of the IOC (International Olympic Committee). Dated pins are usually tied to a particular Olympic Edition. These often have some combination of the nation, NOC name, national flag, and indiginous animal or landmark, as well as the Olympic year. Undated pins have any or all of these elements without the year.
1976 Montreal-The 1976 Montreal Games were marred by an African boycott to protest the fact that the national rugby team of New Zealand had toured South Africa and New Zealand was scheduled to compete in the Olympics. Women’s events were included for the first time in basketball, rowing and team handball. Fourteen-year-old gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Romania caused a sensation when, for her performance on the uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0. She eventually earned seven 10.0s. On the men’s side, Japan’s Shun Fujimoto broke his leg while completing his floor exercises routine. The Japanese team was engaged in a close contest with the Soviet Union, so Fujimoto kept his injury secret. But when he dismounted from the rings, he dislocated his knee and was forced to withdraw. The Japanese women’s volleyball team won all their matches in straight sets, and in only one of fifteen games did an opponent score in double figures. Individual stars included Klaus Dibiasi of Italy, who won his third straight gold medal in platform diving; Viktor Saneyev of Soviet Georgia, who won his third triple jump gold; and Irena Szewinska of Poland, winner of the 400m run, who brought her career total to seven medals - in five different events. Alberto Juantorena of Cuba put together the first 40m-800m double victory. Miklos Németh of Hungary won the javelin throw to become the first son of an athletics gold medalist to win a gold of his own. His father, Imre, had won the hammer throw in 1948. Clarence Hill of Bermuda earned a bronze medal in boxing’s super-heavyweight division to give Bermuda the honor of being the least populous nation (53,500) ever to win a medal in the Summer Olympics.
USSR-Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. In December 1991 the USSR splintered into 15 independent republics. The USSR (Here only Russia) is located in Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is included with Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean. Russia's land area is 16,995,800 sq km and the 2005 population was 143,420,309.
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