Medal - The 40th Anniversary of the election of Alexander Karpinsky of Academician of Science 1926 front Medal - The 40th Anniversary of the election of Alexander Karpinsky of Academician of Science 1926 back
Medal - The 40th Anniversary of the election of Alexander Karpinsky of Academician of Science 1926 photo
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Medal - The 40th Anniversary of the election of Alexander Karpinsky of Academician of Science

1926 year
Bronze 58.44 g 51 mm
Description
Location
Soviet Union (Russia)
Period
Soviet Union (1922-1991)
Type
Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year
1926
Composition
Bronze
Weight
58.44 g
Diameter
51 mm
Shape
Round
Updated
2024-11-14
References
Numista
N#94182
Rarity index
100%

Reverse

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
1886-1926
КАРПИНСКОМУ
АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК.

Translation:
To Karpinsky
Academy of Sciences

Comment

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1847-1936) was a prominent Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist, and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and later Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1917–1936.