The top of the jewel box is decorated with the Arms of Canada, 1921; the bottom left corner is engraved with the ‘U.S.S.R. / 1955’ inscription, while the right corner inscription reads: “from / Lester B. Pearson / Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada”; both sides of the lid are marked with manufacture’s stamps; and the bottom of the box has the following marks: “34/235”, “х 45”.
Box – a gift from Lester Pearson, the Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada
Canada ,
10.10.1955
МЗСБ КП 5523 О 10
5 x 13.7 x 8.7 cm (closed)
silver, wood, calico, rolling, bending, engraving
A gift from Lester Pearson, the Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada, who visited Stalingrad on 10.10.1955.
See also
Brochure “Stalingrad, the epic in the current war” (Stalingrado, Una epopeya en la guerra actual)
Argentina ,
7.09.1944
Brochure “Stalingrad, the epic in the current war” (Stalingrado, Una epopeya en la guerra actual)
Brochure with the text of a lecture by Lieutenant General Alexis Schwartz - a Russian emigrant, a teacher at the Argentine Military Academy. The lecture was delivered in March 1943 and is the first public professional analysis of the strategy and tactics of the Battle of Stalingrad.
The author’s inscription on the title page: "To the Museum of Defense of Stalingrad / Let the history of defense / be preserved in memory of peoples / forever for the glory of the Russian arms. / 7 / IX 1944."
Buenos Aires
Dish (tray)
Egypt ,
December 1962
Dish (tray)
A gift from the governorate of Alexandria to the delegation of Volgograd, December 1962
United Arab Republic (Egypt), Alexandria. It is decorated with a concentric ornament and on the outside of the bottom there is a gift inscription made in Arabic and three brand marks