Collectible silver coin Series:Russia is my homeland Name: Vladivostok Head Post Office house Origin: Hong Kong Issuer: Mega Power Hong Kong Group Limited Made by: Mega Power Hong Kong Group Limited Designer: Iren Ter Sarkisya Weight 23 grams Standard 999 Diameter 45 mm Face value: 50 Copecks of The Government of The Merkulov Brothers Mintage: 400 pcs Date: 2013 Obverse The Head Post Office house was built in 1897-1899 by design of architect Gvozdiovsky. In façade design, decoration works, roof shapes some features of Russian architecture of XVII century were used with its characteristic combination of red brickwork and whitestone architectural elements of framing windows, corbel arches and arcature belts. The lowest flow looks heavy, square and segmental windows are mounted in a “frame”. At the level of the 2nd and 3rd floors the facades are decorated with wide archivolts unifying pairwise semicircular windows, double narrow semicolumns, arcature belts from keel-shaped arches. By the central axis of the building and over resalits the walls are finished with keel-shaped corbel arches. Reverse “Manchur”- a screw sail ship. It was built in 1858 in Boston (USA) by order of the Russian government for navigation in the Pacific. Displacement-816t, length- 80m, width 148m displacement (loaded) -5.1, unloaded displacement -3.4m, speed -9.5knots. In 1860 she was sent on a mission to secure posts in south-eastern harbors of the Russian Coast of the Sea of Japan. On June, 20,1860 a group of soldiers headed by warrantofficer Komarov landed from her and founded Vladivostok post

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