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In gold: 1, 2, 4 pesos; the 4 pesos weighing 6.766 grams of 0.875 fine gold In silver: 10, 20, 50 centimos; the 50 centimos weighing 12.98 grams of 0.9 fine silver (fineness reduced to 0.835 in 1881) The dearth of pre-1857 copper coins were addressed by counterfeit two-cuarto coins (worth 1/80th of a peso) made by Igorot copper miners in the ...
During Brezhnev's General Secretaryship, Viktoria remained at the sidelines; she did not like attracting public attention. [3] Her last appearance in public was at Brezhnev's state funeral in 1982. [4] Following the death of Brezhnev, Viktoria lived on for another 13 years, dying after struggling for several years with diabetes in 1995. [3]
[c] Medvedev ended up styling Brezhnev's hair himself, and Brezhnev left the Kremlin at 19:30 MSK (UTC+3:00). Traveling in Brezhnev's ZiL limousine, Medvedev lit a cigarette "so Brezhnev could inhale [passively] the smoke". [62] Brezhnev retired to bed before the Tuesday evening newscast, his only complaint being that he "couldn't eat much". [60]
[1] The Order of Victory is a standalone decoration awarded specially for service in World War II; unlike other awards such as the Hero of the Soviet Union, it does not belong to any order of ranking. In the history of the Soviet Union, the award had been awarded twenty times to twelve Soviet leaders and five foreign leaders, with one revocation.
In Varketili district of Tbilisi, Georgia, the mainstay of the apartment buildings are brezhnevkas. A brezhnevka (Russian: брежневка) is a concrete apartment building that was built in the Soviet Union from 1964–1980 under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, after whom the building type is named. [1]
Struck in copper-nickel, the obverse side of the coin features the state title, the denomination and a portrait of José Rizal. The reverse side of the coin features the Coat of arms of the Philippines. The first version, minted from 1975 to 1978, featured a scroll with the inscription Republika ng Pilipinas (Republic of the Philippines).
Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982). The Dnipropetrovsk Mafia was the name given to an informal group of Soviet politicians who held high office while Leonid Brezhnev was First Secretary or General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1964–82, whom he knew from his time as ...
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